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Empowering Latin American Youth

Ecuador is located in northwest South America between Colombia and Peru. It is a small country with many tourist attractions, including the Equator landmark, the Galapagos Islands, colonial cities like Quito and Cuenca, the Amazon Rainforest region, and the Otavalo market known for indigenous artisan goods. Ecuador offers its visitors artistic and cultural sites alongside opportunities to experience the country's natural beauty and biodiversity.

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Empowering Latin American Youth

Ecuador is located in northwest South America between Colombia and Peru. It is a small country with many tourist attractions, including the Equator landmark, the Galapagos Islands, colonial cities like Quito and Cuenca, the Amazon Rainforest region, and the Otavalo market known for indigenous artisan goods. Ecuador offers its visitors artistic and cultural sites alongside opportunities to experience the country's natural beauty and biodiversity.

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Ecuador

Located in the northwest corner of South


America, between Colombia and Peru, Ecuador
is a small country with much to offer its visitors.
One of the main tourist destinations is the
Equator, known as La Mitad del Mundo, but
Ecuador has many other artistic and cultural
About Us points of interest, such as the Galápagos
La Poderosa Media Project is an organization Islands, Mindo, Guayaquil, the colonial cities of
based in Austin, Texas that encourages empower- Quito and Cuenca, the Amazon Region, and the
ment, cultural competence, and intercultural Otavalo market, full of beautiful works of art
translation through digital media and service handmade by members of Ecuador’s several
learning programs in Latin America. indigenous groups.

Language Program Bahía de Caráquez


Objectives
This is not a typical Spanish learning program. Our next project will take place in Bahía de
- To facilitate the self-representation, creative
Once you step out of the classroom, you will not Caráquez, on the Pacific coast of Ecuador. This
expression, and economic advancement of
leave what you learned for the day at the door. In coastal town boasting several beaches is
underprivileged Latin American youth by
Ecuador you will be able to immediately put to use situated in the province of Manabí. Bahía, as it is
promoting equal access to multimedia training
each lesson, combined with your prior knowledge better known, is located close to Ecuador's two
and resources.
of Spanish, while conversing with locals and your major cities, Quito and Guayaquil. Bahía is a
fellow compañeros. popular tourist attraction with near perfect
- To provide American college students with a
As a participant you will receive personal Spanish weather year round and temperatures ranging
high quality and affordable alternative to study,
lessons from highly qualified instructors, who will from 73ºF - 95ºF.
intern, and volunteer abroad.
customize a study plan for your individual linguis-
tic needs.
- To bring together into productive dialogue two
culturally and linguistically diverse groups
Video Program
through the creation of digital media.
We provide Latin American youth with the know-
ledge, tools, and skills needed to produce short
Intercultural Translation films and documentaries. We teach both theory
“The procedure that allows for mutual intelligibi- and practice, focusing on the three stages of film-
lity among different experiences of the world making: pre-production, production, and post-
without jeopardizing their identity and production.
autonomy, without reducing them to homoge- Our workshops help young adults express their
neous entities.” creativity through digital narratives. We encour-
age students to develop their own stories while
Boaventura de Sousa Santos guiding them through the process of bringing
those stories to life.

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