On January 1 we officially welcomed Magaly Peralta to our Board of Directors. This is an important milestone for Somos Amigos, in that we now formally have a representative...
read moreIn the late 1980s, my colleague Tom Drexler and I started a service program at Georgetown Prep called Somos Amigos. Our challenge: how do you take a young person...
read moreDecember 2021. We’re back! After nearly two years, we are back! We are very happy to announce that we will have volunteers staffing our clinic again in 2022! We...
read moreHace mucho tiempo! Summer greetings to everyone. I wanted to take this opportunity to update you on our plans for resuming volunteer trips to the Dominican Republic. The bottom...
read more“Why do you support Somos Amigos?” Update June 18, 2021: We did it! YOU did it! And we can’t thank you enough. Knowing we were set back by unanticipated...
read moreApril 2021 represents one full year of changes. Today our operations look a little different than this time last year, when we had to figure out new ways to...
read moreWhere would we be without the women in our lives? This month, we’re celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8th by asking ourselves, “how can we honor our female...
read moreAs we conclude our January Clinic operation, we mark eleven years since a destructive earthquake struck Haiti, our neighboring country to the west. We were at the clinic and...
read moreWe wanted to take this moment to recognize the incredible efforts of our Dominican team, without whom the past year of tremendous change would have been impossible. Muchisimas gracias...
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