The Service Groups develope in Friendship

Amizade means friendship in Portuguese. It is also the name of a service organization (this sounds like a "charity" or "NGO") in the United States that places volunteers in projects. The Amizade’s executive director execution directot, Eric Hartman, thought of the ideas in Brazil in 1994, which explains the Porturese Portuguese name.

The global service-learning and volunteers in program (maybe just say "They placed...") placed three hurduged hundred volunteers in the nine countries last year. They Some were American college students and others worked on service and learning projects. The Amizade defines and directs the programs. The students earn work-study creadits. They charge the college students as much as ten thouthd thousand dollars of for the experience. The volunteers have included the a twelve-year old boy and a man in his eighties.

They There are programs in Tanzania (?) Tanizia, Mexico, they also programs in Germany, Poland, Northernd lreland and the United States. The volunteers work with local groups and individuals working in education on teaching, and do things like teaching and helping children for with their schoolwork and computer skills. They are also do reaserch. Eric Hartman, the director, described the water collection systems they helped to fund (or build - I'm assuming that the organisation was responsible for these water collection systems in some way) in internet blogs postsings from Tanizia Tanzania (?) in July.

The volunteers in projects, the carriben area, the northwestern of the countries, (Do you want to say "The volunteers worked in the north-west Caribbean improving the water collection..."?) they worked on assist improving the harvest systems of rainwater collection systems from the roots of homes (do you mean "from the bottom of the homes" here). They on the metal flows, the glows The rainwater hits the metal piping/roof and then flows into aluminum gutters. This These gutters carry the water into a large collection tank on one the side of the homes. The harvest collection systems means the family members no longer has have to walk a long distance to get (or you can say "fetch") water. This is especially useful for the people who is are too sick to go a long way for water. There is (or you can say: "This leaves more time...") more time for farming and schoolwork. The volunteers live with local families and make friends as they work in the communities. They also visit the sick, and worked on building, painting or other regerstation (sorry, I don't know this word!) from for the local community.