Eighteen undergraduate students, three graduate students, and 14 faculty traveled to Recife (map), a city in northeastern Brazil, March 3-13. The group worked with the non-profit organization Pau Amerelo Community. Launched in 2003 to meet the needs of the community, the Pau Amerelo Community focuses primarily on empowering women to reach their full potential. Its mission is “to act in poor communities through service, promoting education, generation of income, and improvement in basic needs.”

This group traveling to Recife includes Reporting II students, who are producing multimedia reports on their experience, on the experience of other Park students on the trip, and about Recife and Brazil.

As their international reporting experience, half of the Spring, 2006 Reporting II class is reporting from the Guadalupe Center. The center provides recreation, education, health and other services for the Latino community in Kansas City. At the left is the multimedia reporting from Reporting II students about their international experience in Kansas City.