1991

Twenty-four young people from the United States and Mexico participate in Partners’ Mexico-U.S. Conservation Leadership Exchange Program for Youth, weighing sea turtles, tagging migratory birds, maintaining trails, and restoring wildlife habitat.

Partners begins a Central American Peace Scholarship Program, sponsored by USAID, to provide training to over 300 Hondurans in small dairy farm management, small business administration, environmental education, and vegetable and fruit production and marketing.

The Peruvian Peace Scholarship Program, also managed by Partners and funded by USAID, brings over 100 Peruvians to the United States to train in small industry management, education for youth leaders, agricultural management and development skills for women.

“Last year, when I announced the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, I called for the development of new private sector contact among our nations – contacts that can help us to solve such problems as pollution, drug abuse, illiteracy, and poverty. For almost three decades, your organization has demonstrated the kind of public-private cooperation of which I spoke. Through a variety of cultural, educational, and technological exchanges, Partners volunteers have been helping to enrich the lives of people throughout our hemisphere. I commend you and your dedicated service.” – George H. W. Bush, 1991