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, […]