HOW YOU CAN BE INVOLVED...
Donating material aid is one way. Equipment
that we in
Vermont consider obsolete can be put to good use by our counterparts in
"Port". A former UVM student carried donated computers to "Port" and
started
a computer training school there that has graduated many students.
Cultural exchange is another. Vermonters
visiting Puerto
Cabezas have included artists, actors, educators, baseball players,
carpenters,
plumbers, firemen, and an Abenaki storyteller. Visiters from
Puerto
Cabezas have included musicians, municipal workers, police and fire
officials,
agricultural students, drug counselors, indigenous leaders, and most
recently
young baseball players.
Burlington's Sister City
Program offers
a valuable opportunity for its residents. People have much to gain from
involvement with this unique 24-year relationship, and we invite
interested
persons to become involved. Anyone is guaranteed to be enriched by the
experience of meeting your "sister" residents from this very
interesting
multicultural autonomous region of Nicaragua.
For more information keep
visiting
our web site <www.uvm.edu/sistercity>
or send us an e-mail address asking to be put on
our
mailing list.
DONATIONS can
be made for
overall program use or DESIGNATED FOR SPECIFIC PROJECTS and
sent to
BURLINGTON/
BILWI (PUERTO CABEZAS) SISTER CITY PROGRAM
15
BEECH
STREET, BURLINGTON, VT 05401
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