Pittsburgh

Travel to Peru, from the comforts of home

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...

A Little Can Go a Long Way

This blog post was written by Amizade volunteer Michelle Carfagno, an undergraduate student at Cornell University, and presents impressions of...

Amizade wins grant to bridge urban and rural communities

With great honor, Amizade announces that an exciting idea formed in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, will come to...

A week of service and learning in Pittsburgh

Amizade has always believed in the transformative nature of global service-learning. Over the last few years, we set out to transform...

Going Abroad—And Bringing the Lessons Back Home

This article was written by Natalie Orenstein and first appeared on remakelearning.org. Republished with permission. In Pittsburgh’s Hill District, teenagers...

Donate to Amizade on Day of Giving 2016

Dear Friends, Thank you again to everyone who donated to Amizade on the first Day of Giving in May. As...

Nina’s Here to Stay!

Join us in celebrating our new Assistant Program Coordinator, Nina DelPrato. Nina is no stranger to Amizade, however. As the...

Host a Youth Ambassador in Pittsburgh!

Amizade is seeking families from the Pittsburgh area to host high school students and adult mentors from Bolivia and Peru this...

Hear Me Project Engages Northern Irish Youth

Have you heard? Amizade’s Northern Ireland Groups have worked in collaboration with Hear Me, an audio platform for student voices...

Amizade’s 20th Anniversary Celebration

Twenty years ago in Brazil, Dan Weiss founded Amizade, which means “friendship” in Portuguese. Twenty years later in Pittsburgh, this...

Announcing the Youth Ambassadors Program

Amizade is thrilled and honored to announce that we have been awarded a youth and adult leadership exchange program,...

Amizade and The Sprout Fund partner for grant opportunity

Amizade Global Service-Learning has partnered with The Sprout Fund to help facilitate a series of community conversations and develop a...