Romina Elizabeth Ortega

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I am 15 years old and I live with my parents in the city of Tobati. I have 3 younger sisters. I enjoy spending time walking and talking with my parents and friends during my free time. When I’m not with my family or friends I am doing my schoolwork. The institute is the best high school in the City of Tobati because they provide the best education. The library and the computer room is what I enjoy most about the Institute because there you have access to many things. I would like to study to be a professor of some sort. I want to be a professor to help give the best education to the young children of Paraguay. I can also see myself being a pediatric doctor because I love helping and taking care of young children.

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About Tobatí:Tobatí is both a town and a provincial district within the department (state) of Cordillera, Paraguay. The population of the district of Tobatí is 21,315 of which 16,538 (75.5%) are under the age of 19. Over 33% of this population lives beneath the international poverty line while as high as 70% live in relative poverty. A large percentage of the houses in the region lack running water and electricity.

This poverty is especially prevalent in the region's rural villages, known as compañías. Most men and boys in the region work in small brick or tile factories that pay at most one or two dollars a day. A large number of girls work as domestic servants. Schools run in three or four hour shifts in order to allow for children to work and also due to overpopulation and a lack of resources in the local schools. Many children in Tobatí are employed.

About Macchi School: The education of a single person can have a positive effect on the lives of thousands of people. This principle is the foundation of the Macchi School. Located in a part of the world plagued by poverty and short horizons, the Macchi School is a tool that is being used to transform the South American district of Tobati into a better place for future generations to live.

The school provides a means for the community's brightest minds from the poorest neighborhoods and villages to be nurtured with the hope that they will not only complete a university program, but will return to to Tobati afterward to take up the difficult task of solving some of the town's most serious problems. To reach this goal the Macchi School offers a rigorous academic curriculum while at the same time, imparts a strong sense of public service on all of its students.