Andrea Riitano Escame

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I live back in Brazil now, I have been married since 2001 to a basketball coach (who happens to be in Turkey right now participating in the World Women´s Basketball Championship). I have a 14 month old baby boy and run my own metallurgic business in which I manufacture dentist´s equipment.
I have volunteered at an NGO called ICFS (Integrated Center for Family Support) for the past 4-5 years. We help children from sexual abuse/harrassment as well as combating teenage pregnancy. We also support underpriviledged families with food, clothing, counseling, medication, jobs, etc. This has not only been rewarding but a joy. This NGO is about to build a restaurant school in which we will train teenagers to be chefs, cooks, kitchen assistants, waiters and we will sell the food they prepare to the community so the restaurant school can pay itself. I am very excited about that, very. We even have a chef exchange programme to France where one of our teenage chefs in training will go to study for a month out of each year. These children would have no chance in life otherwise. Gratifying!

After BHS I attended BYU and graduated in International Relations. After working for a couple of multinationals in South Africa and Brazil I decided to do an MBA in Brazil and open my own company.
I love having had the opportunity to attend school in the States and cherish all the memories I have. I miss the people and the food very much.
Being a foreign student I was taken by the crowd to the Homecoming Assembly, I had no idea of what was about to go on and suddenly girls started flying out from backstage, they were the cheerleaders and I was amazed at how acrobatic they were. We don´t have cheerleaders back in Brazil.
Also, as you may see I looked frightened in my yearbook picture, mainly because I had no idea (once again) of what I was doing there or what a yearbook was...