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Below are the symbols and terms repeated throughout Get South:

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Interested in making a societal impact? South America offers a number of charitable organizations that need YOUR help!

A few hours a week can enrich your experience abroad and can make a world of difference!

Here are only a few of many organizations operating:

ARGENTINA

• Fundación Argentina de Etoecología (www.etoecologia.org.ar) raises environmental awareness through direct action such as forestation, ground imporvement, water purification and education on environmental issues. You can also volunteer with them to help children and women on the street. • Hogar Amparo Maternal (www.amparomaternal.com.ar) works with young mothers and their children to create a place to stay and organize their daily tasks.• Banco de Alimentos (www.bancodealimentos.org.ar) fights hunger and malnutrition by providing soup kitchens and raising awareness.• Voluntario Global (www.voluntarioglobal.com.ar) runs educational projects in Buenos Aires, northern Argentina, Bariloche and Iguazu.• South American Explorers (www.saexplorers.org) has a good database of volunteer opportunities across South America for eager travellers.

CHILE

• Voluntarios de la Esperanza (www.ve-global.org) works to provide shelters, orphanages and schools in Santiago.• Agrupacion Medio Ambiental Torres del Paine (www.amatorresdelpaine.org) does conservation work and environmental education in the national park.• Un Techo para Chile (www.untechoparachile.cl) works on reconstruction of homes for those in Southern Chile whose homes were devastated by earthquakes.

URUGUAY

• Karumbe (www.karumbe.org) is a volunteer project that monitors and conserves sea turtles in coastal Uruguay.

** Volunteering **

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** Don’t leave without trying these **

Asado/Parrilla Is in essence a grilled barbecue, consisting of various cuts of meat. A typical asado* may have an assortment of various cuts of steak, chicken, morcilla (blood sausage/black pudding), chorizo (sausage), mollejas (sweetbreads), riñones (kidneys), and chinchulines (intestines).

Is a popular traditional infusion made with the leaves of the yerba plant. Once dry and processed, the leaves are put into a gourd called mate (made of wood or other materials) and hot water is poured over it. The infusion is sipped through a bombilla (a filtered metal straw).

Mate

Dulce de Leche is the ultimate for anyone with a sweet tooth. Made from slow cooked condensed milk, it is rich, creamy and perfectly addictive! Spread it on toast in the morning, try it stuffed in pastries, eat it in the local alfajors or just eat it straight from the jar! In Chile it is called manjar.

Dulce de leche

EmpanadaIs a tasty stuffed pastry that can have a wide range of fillings, such as beef, chicken, seafood, vegetables, ham and cheese, sweet corn, onion, boiled egg, olives, raisins and more. It can be baked or fried.

ChivitoThis Uruguayan sandwich consists primarily of a thin

slice of steak, with mayonnaise, black or green olives, cheese, tomatoes and sometimes also bacon, fried or hardboiled eggs and ham. Normally served in a bun with a huge stack of French Fries! The Chilean version is barros luco and in Argentina, the lomito.

Argentina, Chile and Uruguay have some national dishes and drinks that you shouldn’t miss. Almost all of them appear in each country and beyond being tasty, they are a key part of the culture. Try them all !!