A Ganar (Vencer in Brazil) is a youth workforce development program wrapped up in a soccer ball. By utilizing soccer and other team sports to help youth in Latin America, ages 16-24, find jobs, learn entrepreneurial...

In 2004, a former teacher at Iowa State University, Dr. George Beran, first recruited me for a Partners project. The project consisted of consulting farmers associated with an agroecological school and what may have been Mexico’s first...

2014 has been a productive year for Partners’ Agriculture and Food Security (AFS) Unit! Under the USAID-funded Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) Program, 78 volunteers traveled to eight countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to work with close to...

“I believe in the power of sport, and great facilitators, to change lives.” One of my favorite parts of my job is meeting with our amazing A Ganar Phase 1 facilitators. These are the people who...

[Español a continuación]  I’m a big admirer of the work that Partners of the Americas does, and I’ve had a long connection to the organization through my service in the Peace Corps in Paraguay. I’d...

Last month, for the first time ever, the small town of Montevideo, Minnesota was introduced to the 200-year-old Afro-Uruguayan “candombe” music their sister city, Montevideo, Uruguay, is so well known for. Candombe is a cultural heritage, music...