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Reading Time: 1 minute 2019 has presented us great challenges, in which teamwork has once again been the key to advancing and achieving our goals. Goals that have a great meaning, which are synonymous with commitment. From the Scholarship-holders Committee, we would like to thank each of our friends for their support, for having believed in us and selecting us as the team that represents them. We hope that […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Social vocation, Ethics, Passion for Excellency, Commitment to our mission, Multicultural vision, Impartiality and tolerance and Responsibility for actions and results, are the values that define AVAA and each of the people who work every day to achieve the objectives of the organization. To celebrate and enhance this commitment and the achievements of the staff during the year, this Wednesday, December 11, the organization wanted […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes December first has become a special date for AVAA, because we officially welcome Christmas, a time of celebration, friendship and above all, an occasion to thank for the successes and goals achieved in the year. On that day so awaited by the Proexcellence scholarship-holders, we carried out our Christmas activity, attended by 153 Caracas scholars and 28 Carabobo scholars, who shared and enjoyed an activity […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes During November 28 and 29, AVAA developed its Model United Nations, AVAAMUN, an activity that corresponds to the last phase of the AVAAMUN Training Program, a four-phase program that began in September 2018, in which 34 young people from more than 14 states of Venezuela participated. Phase 1 of the AVAAMUN Training Program consisted of a bootcamp-style training for 34 young people; in leadership, marketing […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes During the week of November 18-22, AVAA’s U.S. Studies Advisory Center, EducationUSA AVAA, participated in International Education Week 2019 in partnership with Margarita’s Thomas Edison Center for Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Technology (CELTTE). Within the framework of that week, all binational centers carry out educational activities aimed mainly at young Latin Americans, with the aim of developing and promoting programs that strengthen their training, within the […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes From early morning, hundreds of people attended to the International Educational Fair (FEI)* 2019 held at Marriott Hotel in El Rosal, in which 18 national and international institutions participated. This event, which annually brings together representatives of various institutions from different countries, offered attendees several undergraduate and graduate study opportunities, courses, languages and scholarships, as well as providing guidance to those interested in as to […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last October 26, the team of scholarship-holders that leads the Honoring the Elderly project, held a workshop on for 40 grandparents who live in the nursing home “San Judas Tadeo” in Altamira. This day, was held about the St. Jude’s Day, which is celebrated in Venezuela every 28th of October. On this occasion, the project team joined with some scholarship-holder who have artistic skills, mainly […]

Reading Time: 1 minute Our Volunteer Project Orientation to Achievement, carried out its second day of the year. On this occasion, the organizer team , along with 17 of the ProExcellency scholarship-holders, held the Educational Fair OAL* in the “Gustavo Herrera” school in Chacao, where they benefited to 87 4th or 5th grade students. The activity took place between 8:00 am and 2:00 pm, in which the students got […]

Reading Time: 1 minute Last November 1st AVAA held the eleventh edition of the Friendship Golf Tournament at the WildCat Golf Club in Houston, Texas. Once again, this fundraising event believe on the education of young people in Venezuela. Almost 100 players participated in this four golfer scramble tournament in a friendly atmosphere in which they shared with volunteers from AVAA and the sponsoring companies. “18 Holes for Education” […]

Reading Time: 1 minute Holes for Youth in Venezuela On November 1, the elevenh edition of the Friendship Golf Tournament will be held at the WildCat Golf Club in Houston, Texas. Once again, this fundraising event is committed to the education of young people in Venezuela. More than 90 players will be able to participate in this tournament under the four golfer scramble modality in a friendly atmosphere in […]

Reading Time: 1 minute In order to continue supporting our scholarship holders from different spaces and strengthen their eating habits, we have established an alliance with The Voluntary Dividend for the Community, through its program “A Glass for Life”, which will provide the 250 AVAA scholars with a complementary protein drink for their diet. The main reason for this alliance responds to the importance of promoting in the scholars […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Youth leadership has become an important factor in facing the challenges presented by Venezuela in recent times. Young people are taking on more and more important challenges that form them and prepare them for the construction of a new country. In each experience, they contribute with their knowledge, but they also learn new things. In recent years, our scholars have represented Venezuela in important scenarios […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Studying in Venezuela is a great challenge for today’s young students. Thinking, planning and achieving personal and professional goals is a feat when external circumstances are adverse and vary daily. Universities in Venezuela are facing desertion rates that range between 30 and 40%, according to a report by the NGO Aula Abierta, dated November 2018. Faced with this situation, the Venezuelan American Friendship Association (AVAA […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Amazing Rally is the oldest integration activity of our Excellency Program. A sports-recreational project founded in 2013, which over the years has grown a lot and has become the preferred event by scholarship holders. In this opportunity, it was organized by the scholars: Grey Alcalá, Gerardo Capote, Maria Gabriela Vetancourt and Mariana López, who showed great leadership, teamwork and commitment, which led them to […]

Reading Time: 1 minute Under the slogan of 18 holes for education, the Venezuelan American Friendship Association (AVAA) will hold its 38th Friendship Golf Tournament on September 12 at Valle Arriba Golf Club, an event that will benefit AVAA’s Excellency Program scholars. The Friendship Golf Tournament is one of the main fundraising events developed by the organization to support the integral formation of 250 students in Caracas. This event […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes For the second consecutive year, the Latin American Council of Management Schools (CLADEA, for its Spanish acronym) offered the graduates of the IESA and all the institutions in the network the opportunity to apply to the Graduate Global Business program and obtain a scholarship to study a master’s degree at the Florida International University (FIU) and this year, the selected one is a ProExcellency graduate. […]

Reading Time: 1 minute In alliance with the Civil Association “Creando Futuro Venezuela“, we are developing the cycle of workshops that compose the Program of Prevention and Integral Orientation, carried out by this organization with the objective of strengthening in our scholarship holders, the 10 skills for life, contemplated in the study of the World Health Organization (WHO). These skills are a set of “adaptive and positive behavioural skills […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes A Friendly Hand for the Avila (UMMA, for its Spanish initials), one of AVAA’s volunteering projects, returned in 2019 with a very clear goal: to raise awareness in the Venezuelan society about the importance of our ecosystems and their preservation. This project is a way to flatter one of the most important natural monuments in our country: Waraira Repano National Park (El Ávila). In 2019, […]

Reading Time: 1 minute Assistant Undersecretary Caroline Casagrande conferred the Outstanding Team Award to EducationUSA Venezuela during the EducationUSA 2019 Annual Forum, an event held in Washington, D.C., offering higher education professionals the opportunity to collaborate with advisors from around the world. Each year, a different EducationUSA advisor from the Venezuelan team is selected to participate in the forum and on this occasion, Venezuela was represented by Irina Vázquez, […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes On June 24, 2019, during this edition of Gente que emprende Radio, the program of the Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce of the United States, through VDM Radio, Patricia Dressler (President of AVAA US) and Marisol Angarita (AVAA US volunteer), addressed the scholarship opportunities for university students offered by AVAA in Venezuela. They talked about the origins of AVAA and its first advance towards its key […]

Reading Time: 1 minute Steven is a ninth-quarter student of mechanical engineering at Universidad Metropolitana, and in May of this year became one of three Venezuelan winners of a cultural exchange scholarship for the Darmasiswa Scholarship Program of the Republic of Indonesia. This program organized by the Ministry of Education and Culture (MoEC) of the Republic of Indonesia has a duration of one year and consists of the granting […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Once again, the Venezuelan American Friendship Association (AVAA*), had the honor of being invited to the annual meeting of NAFSA (Association of International Educators) to represent Venezuela in this activity that brings together the 10,000 members of NAFSA located in more than 3,500 institutions around the world, in more than 150 countries (According to the official portal of NAFSA). This time, AVAA had the opportunity […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Entrepreneurial vision has become a feature of many of our scholars and graduates. An example of this is Miguel Ashley Hernandez and Jonathan Castro, both graduates of our AVAA Excellency Program, who just on June 25 of this year, made their first Speed Dating of Entrepreneurship, one of the main events of the project they are developing in Peru, called Lima Emprende. After founding La […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes On June 22nd, the team of scholarship holders who organize and direct the project Brighten up my Life, the newest of the volunteer initiatives developed at AVAA, joined the Kanyz Foundation to give a different day to the children of the Municipality of Los Salias in San Antonio de Los Altos. Our scholarship holders, accompanied by other volunteers and friends, went to the Sports, Cultural […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Annual General Assembly (AGA) of AVAA, is the meeting in which accountability is promoted for the management made by the organization during a year to keep their programs running. But it is also an opportunity to connect with the energy of Venezuela that continues to work to achieve goals and provide more opportunities. On this time, scholars, staff, graduates, volunteers, members of the Board […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes We closed the month with the first day of our volunteer project Honoring the Elderly, carried out in the nursing home La Divina Providencia, in Maternidad, Caracas. It was an encounter in which 25 of our scholarship holders celebrated Father’s Day along with the grandparents who live there. The recently constituted team of this project began its management with a great day that counted with […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes On June 14, the scholarship organizers of our project A Volunteer for Life, celebrated the World Blood Donor Day, with the completion of the first day of donations of the year, which was supported by the Municipal Blood Bank, located in San José de Cotiza, across the Hospital Vargas, in Caracas. On this occasion, 10 donors attended the place, deciding to contribute to the mission […]