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Author: Michael Field
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I have been  interning at Fundacion COINED and working with the kids at Oportunidad Educativa for about two months and I can honestly say that this has been an eye opening experience.  These kids are so bright and full of happiness. 

There are so many kids who just need the opportunity to study, it is amazing how self motivated these kids are.  Argentina is an interesting country caught somewhere in between the third world and the first world.  The City of Cordoba is full of intelligent people, yet to me it seems people here are extremely cynical, and for good reason.  The government has lacked stability for years and many children pay the consequences.  Similar to many other places in the world, poverty is a cycle and the government makes promises they don't keep. 

Give an opportunity helps to fill the shoes of financial instability in the government.  Change only comes through individual action and everyone I have worked with has shown me on a daily basis why I am here trying to affect the lives of as many children as possible. Children don't choose where they are born or who there parents are. 

One of my strongest convictions is that every kid has the same right to decent education that includes much more than textbooks.  The scholars are able to experience a new world demonstrating to them that they should have higher expectations for their future.  Every one of these kids deserves an opportunity to reach their goals, and they have showed me how bad they want to  reach their goals.

 

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