Aprender y Enseñar

Aprender y Enseñar is a new nonprofit service agency at Wake Forest University. The agency works with Wake Forest University's Volunteer Service Corps, and Winston-Salem's Hispanic International Action Association (HIAA) to form a partnership of service between the two communities.

Aprender y Enseñar unites the organizations of the Winston-Salem area that primarily work with the Hispanic Community with the service foundation of Wake Forest. The sectors that we are working with are: Education, Medical, Social Services, Law, and Business Opportunities. We hope to establish a strong volunteer and service organization link. Uniting these two groups, Aprender y Enseñar will be able to provide coordinated volunteer service help to all organizations that need it.

Aprender y Enseñar was recently awarded two grants from the Lily Foundation's Pro Humanitate Grants from Wake Forest University, and one through the Office of the Provost. Through these grants we have established a service database of service organizations in the Winston-Salem community, in addition to the research we have conducted via a Freshman First Year Seminar: Mexican Immigration to the United States (Fall 2001) in which the students actively volunteer with the local Hispanic organizations.

Also, we have established quick and easy routes of communication between Wake Forest and the service organizations of Winston-Salem. Aprender y Enseñar not only has an e-mail address, aprender@wfu.edu for rapid communication, but this website is also full of helpful information concerning all partner volunteer organizations in Winston-Salem that are working with the agency.