Colombia 2009

Ambassadors for Children is an ASG–recognized student organization at Miami University. As part of the larger AFC organization, students participate in service trips and also fundraise for AFC’s community initiatives. Students have taken part in many trips through AFC to destinations such as El Salvador and Malawi.

We are traveling to a city on the Caribbean Coast of South America: Cartagena de Indias, which was founded in 1533 by the Spanish. This city is influenced by the still existing infrastructure of the Spanish rule, which ended in 1810.

Unfortunately, within 30 minutes of this bustling, tourist metropolis, there are countless children who know nothing of the division of their city into two separate worlds. One world is a vacation destination for the rich and the other one is a makeshift, poorly constructed region. AFC’s humanitarian mission focus at this destination is to provide children the opportunity to receive an education who might not otherwise have one. We work with several sustainable projects explained at http://ambassadorsforchildren.org/www2/?action=Trips/details.php&trip_id...

Colombian children need a chance to have the same opportunities for education and health care as children in the rest of the world. This program reaches into the homes of children between the ages of 2 and 6 years and draws them into an educational environment that will give them hope for the future and a desire to learn.

Special thanks to the Roger and Joyce Howe Center for Writing Excellence for sponsoring this blog.

Participants
Jenny Allen
Rose Allen
Charlie Ball
Kevin Byrnes
Douglas Chiki
Gene Colleran
Cory Droll
Hannah Godlewski
Allie Grace
Becca Hertz
Scott Irlbacher
Jacob Kuss
Jean McCabe
Tara McCabe
Kelley McCormick
Martin Montgomery
Erin Pohlman
Brianna Romane
Chloe Rosenberger
Lauren Smith
Megan Kuykendoll
Shivali Viswanath
Megan Wise

Faculty Leader
Karen Montgomery