This intership/exhange program is designed to provide Regional Youth Sport leaders with an opportunity to stregthen and enhance their capacity in managing sport for development activities including aspects of organizational and program management. 

As a commitment to developing youth leaders in communities through the Youth Friendly Healthy Spaces Project two young women of Brasso Venado/ Los Atajos have been engaged to support their Active Community Youth Club in planning events and initiatives. As their first event as Field Officers Josanne Ramsundar and Kerry Ann Simmons coordinated a Fun Day of activities for the children in their community to culminate the year's activities.

Led by Partners of the Americas, A Ganar (Vencer in Brazil) is a youth workforce development program wrapped up in a soccer ball. By utilizing soccer and other team sports to help youth in Latin America, ages 16-24, find jobs, learn entrepreneurial skills, or re-enter the formal education system, A Ganar combats the serious problem of youth unemployment. A Ganar has trained over 4000 youth in Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay, and Colombia and has now expanded to Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and St. Kitts and Nevis.