ECELA Spanish School in Argentina Offers Students Opportunity to Work in
Buenos Aires Free Health Fair
Beginning in June 2010, ECELA will be offering its students the one-of-a-kind opportunity to
participate in a Buenos Aires Health Fair while learning Spanish. This program will enable
students interested in becoming health care professions to get hands-on experience in a
Spanish-speaking environment while providing much-needed medical services to local residents.
(PRWEB) February 23, 2010 -- ECELA Spanish school in Argentina has announced a trailblazing program that
will benefit not only its Spanish immersion students, but also Buenos Aires citizens who are in need and have not
had the opportunity to receive proper medical attention and advice. Organized jointly with local community
centers, the roving health fair will be in a different under-resourced barrio (neighborhood) each week, providing
visitors free health education as well as screenings for potential medical issues like diabetes, skin cancer, and
glaucoma.
Accepted participants will learn Spanish in Buenos Aires during the morning session and volunteer at the health
fair in the afternoons. The month-long program, limited to 24 nursing, premed, and medical students, debuts in
June 2010, with a second group of students in July. The fair offers ECELA Spanish students a rare opportunity to
attend a Spanish school in Argentina while assisting impoverished Argentines with their medical needs. While
ECELA is located in the posh, tree-lined Recoleta neighborhood, the fair will focus on the under-resourced
industrial belt, a grim, low-income area which tourists normally only see from a comfortable taxi on the way to
the airport.
In addition to the volunteer health care students, several Argentine medical professionals and students will be on
hand. ECELA Regional Director Cecilia Quezada stated, “We are really looking forward to the cultural exchange
that will be taking place at our health fair. This is an ideal opportunity for two communities to come tog