Pablo Chufeni: Servas Traveler, a Bundle of Energy and Creator of International Language Exchange

The early introduction of Pablo Chufeni is that he's only a heap of vitality - Pablo just radiates hopefulness and enthusiasm. He is from Argentina, in his twenties, and works in a variety of professions, including as a professor teaching theater, and as a TV maker. He got his first work involvement with a local program of a creating bank, working with poor teenagers. Past these varied work activities, Pablo dedicates a gigantic amount of his time as a volunteer for Servas, and as you will discover soon, he is taking a shot at setting up various energizing international youth initiatives for this organization.

Pablo originally found Servas through his uncle. He has had a chance to travel to the Netherlands, to Belgium, France and England, and he credits Servas for making these travels conceivable since he would somehow not have possessed the capacity to visit these nations. Servas allowed him to travel cost-viably and gave him the chance to really become acquainted with these places.

After coming back from these treks, Pablo chose to create a local Servas chapter in Rosario, Argentina's second largest city. Today there are 15 exceptionally active Servas individuals and the gathering has already facilitated 2 national gatherings with individuals from 5 unique areas.

Pablo let me know of his encounters in Montevideo where he met a youthful Brazilian woman who wanted to study Spanish. Pablo felt that Servas offered a phenomenal international system of receptive individuals, and by one means or another this system could be harnessed in profitable ways. He wound up planning a program for youth to concentrate abroad. This youthful Brazilian woman wound up staying an entire month in various Servas part homes in Argentina while a teacher gave her free Spanish language lessons. She also had a chance to take tango lessons, a real prologue to Argentinean society. This was enhanced by a scholarship at a theater arranged by Pablo, which normally would have fetched $700. In kind for this experience, Argentina sent a youthful Servas part to Brazil to study Portuguese.

This initiative has now expanded, and in addition to Brazil and Argentina, Pablo is setting up free youth language exchange programs in Mexico and Uruguay, and he is at present chipping away at expanding the Servas language learning and cultural exchange experience into Canada and the United States. All on the whole, this program will have the capacity to offer free learning programs to 18 to 30 year old Servas individuals in 4 languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.

In addition, Pablo is also chipping away at organizing the first International Servas Youth Meeting in the Southern Hemisphere. The occasion is called "Patagonia 06" and will be held amid the third week of January of 2006. Servas individuals from all over the world will be welcome to share their encounters of how to enhance the organization's viability for advancing peace. Pablo also plans the occasion to make Servas more dynamic and more accessible to youngsters. He feels there are so many conceivable outcomes of harnessing this international system of similar individuals for the peaceful improvement of the world.

Patagonia 06 will be facilitated in the surely understood Argentinean resort town of Bariloche and it will be a greatly affordable occasion: The meeting program including accommodation and meals will just cost US$160.00. This minimal effort will allow youngsters from all over the world to participate.

On a more local level, Pablo has "assorted qualities meals", suppers that are planned to get more youngsters included in Servas. So far he has facilitated 4 meals with 4 participants each, and 6 of these individuals have now gotten to be active Servas individuals, another example of the achievement of local outreach programs.

Pablo's imagination never rests. In addition to his present activities he is already considering consolidating Servas travel with farm work encounters as well as international occupation shadowing and temporary job opportunities. Soon you'll hear from this hurricane of positive vitality himself, how he builds up all these creative ideas and finds an ideal opportunity to execute them in his spare-time.

Susanne Pacher is the distributer of a site called Travel and Transitions(http://www.travelandtransitions.com). Travel and Transitions deals with unconventional travel and is packed with advice, tips, real life travel encounters, interviews with travelers and travel specialists, bits of knowledge and reflections, diverse issues, challenges and many different features. You will also discover stories about existence and the transitions that we face as we experience our very own long lasting excursions.

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