Casa De Amistad

Casa de Amistad is a proud community partner of Howard B. Stroud Elementary! Starting Monday Feb 25 Casa will bring adult ESL classes to Stroud!  

Would you like to experience a multicultural Athens and help our growing Latino community? Casa de Amistad is looking for volunteers to help our English instructors by providing one-one tutoring or help with group instruction. This is a great opportunity to get to know some local Hispanic families and get some teaching experience under your [...]

The annual Benevolence Market will be held this year at First Baptist Church in downtown Athens on Sunday afternoon, December 2, 2012, from 12:00 noon to 3:00 PM. The Benevolence Market offers an alternative holiday giving experience. Instead of engaging in traditional gift exchange with friends and family, you can come to the Market and [...]

Casa de Amistad has been selected as this year’s host site for Latino Fest 2012! We would love for you to come out and join us on October 20th for the 3rd annual Latino Fest.  The goal of Latino Fest is to raise awareness of the contributions of Hispanics/ Latinos  and to promote multi-cultural exchange [...]

Casa de Amistad is pleased to welcome Alex Borges as our new Executive Director. Click here to learn more about Alex.

Casa will be hosting a Volunteer Orientation on Tuesday 9/6/11 from 6pm-8pm.  The orientation will cover all the volunteer opportunities available with Casa de Amistad as well as provide resources for teaching ESOL classes.  If you are interested in volunteering this fall, please register with Courtney Montague, athensamistad@gmail.com.  We are looking forward to a fun [...]

On Saturday, August 6, 2011 Casa de Amistad hosted a table at the Athens Farmers Market.  We had such a great time visiting with local friends and neighbors.  And it was very exciting to see all the support in the community for Casa.  We brought a number of our Birdhouses to sell and sell they [...]

Special thanks to Dr. David Berle and the Horiculture Program at the University of Georgia for giving Casa de Amistad a beautiful community garden.  Casa program recipients and volunteers are enjoying the fruits of their labor.

Living Out Justice Partnering with the Poor Building Lives & Sustainable Communities in Nicaragua by Sarah Junkin Woodard An event hosted by the Athens Quaker Meeting and Casa de Amistad Tuesday, April 26th 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. At the Casa de Amistad office located at 1685 Commerce Rd. Slides Information Crafts Sarah Junkin Woodard [...]