Team Tobati 2025
Team Tobati is excited to undertake our Los Angeles branch’s third-annual service learning trip to Paraguay this March (leaving Saturday March 22 and returning Sunday March 30). Participants will spend the week in Tobati, a small town about 2 hours outside the capital city, doing a combination of service learning and cultural exchange activities with students at the town’s only private high school, The Instituto Cultural Reinaldo Macchi (ICRM). ICRM, founded and partially funded by two doctors (a married couple) who emigrated from Paraguay to the United States, provides full scholarships to the most talented students from the poorest neighborhoods and villages around Tobati, giving them an opportunity to escape the abject poverty that plagues their communities.
The trip provides a unique opportunity to explore an entirely new culture and make lasting bonds with kids from the other side of the world, while also making a real, tangible impact on the lives of others. Many of the students (and their parents) at ICRM have never left their village, so the opportunity to create a friendship with someone from another continent is not just exciting, but also inspiring –many students have comented that interacting and befriending American students offers a glimpse of the world outside of Tobati and motivates them to believe in the school’s motto: “todo es posible // anything is possible”.
Please fill out the Statement of Intent below and issue your payment ($3,550) for the trip in order to secure your spot. If you're paying by check, checks should be made out to TEAM TOBATI and mailed to Team Tobati, 9 Rogers Pl. New Britain, CT 06051. Click on the botton below to pay by credit card.
The trip provides a unique opportunity to explore an entirely new culture and make lasting bonds with kids from the other side of the world, while also making a real, tangible impact on the lives of others. Many of the students (and their parents) at ICRM have never left their village, so the opportunity to create a friendship with someone from another continent is not just exciting, but also inspiring –many students have comented that interacting and befriending American students offers a glimpse of the world outside of Tobati and motivates them to believe in the school’s motto: “todo es posible // anything is possible”.
Please fill out the Statement of Intent below and issue your payment ($3,550) for the trip in order to secure your spot. If you're paying by check, checks should be made out to TEAM TOBATI and mailed to Team Tobati, 9 Rogers Pl. New Britain, CT 06051. Click on the botton below to pay by credit card.
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