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After observing transplant operations while on a trip to Virginia, a surgeon from Santa Catarina, Brazil performed the first liver transplant in his state.
Farmers in Honduras increased the quality and reduced the cost of sugar after adapting the techniques of maple sugar producers that they had met from Vermont.
High school students in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania taught other teenagers about pregnancy and HIV/AIDS prevention after a child psychologist from Bahia, Brazil trained them to become peer counselors.
This is the work of Partners of the Americas, Inc. volunteers. We cross borders. We collaborate. And we make a difference.
At the heart of Partners is this "people-to-people" philosophy, which grew out of a 1962 call by President John F. Kennedy for citizens of the western hemisphere to work together. Inspired by the challenge, Jim Boren, one of our founders, envisioned a two-way network of volunteer partnerships that would enable everyday people to contribute to communities in the Americas.
Today, Partners has evolved into 120 volunteer chapters linked through sixty partnerships. Chapters in U.S. states form partnerships with chapters in countries or states in Latin America and the Caribbean. Partnerships build cultural awareness, understanding, and camaraderie. They create and implement projects that improve the quality of life for others. And they become leaders within their respective communities.
Men and women from all walks of life - doctors, artists, high school students, foresters, city administrators, professors - are part of the Partners family. Besides the time and technical abilities donated by volunteers, a number of major corporations, foundations, and government agencies support our work.
Partners of the Americas, Inc. welcomes all individuals and organizations willing to share their skills and work towards greater international cooperation among the people of the western hemisphere.
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