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 […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes On June 8, our AVAA Advisory Center, EducationUSA, and scholars from the Excellency Program, along with the NGO ABC Prodeim and Leather Heart (Venezuela’s first certified B Corporation), visited the community of El Encantado in Petare, Minicipality of Sucre in Caracas, in order to provide a day full of laughter and values to 150 low-income children living in the area. The team of organizers worked […]
Reading Time: 1 minute With the objective of strengthening our international alliances, on April 10, AVAA signed an agreement with the Venezuelan American Chamber of Commerce of the United States (VACC), which defines the bases for mutual cooperation in education and sports between both institutions. This achievement will allow us to strengthen the support to the scholarship holders of our Excellence Program.