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He was born in 1998 and lives in Puerto Tejada, a town in the department of Cauca. Victor\nBarona joined Colombianitos in 2010 and two years later he became a \u201cJoven Agente De\nCambio\u201d (JAC) (young agents of change).<\/span><\/p>\n He learned English by himself since his parents did not have the means to pay for a specialized\ncourse. As a result, he applied for two scholarships from the United States government and was able to get them both. The first was in 2013, \u201cJ\u00f3venes Embajadores\u201d (young ambassadors), it was a month-long cultural exchange program, in which he put into practice what he by himself had learned from the foreign language. <\/span><\/p>\n Two years later, in 2015 he applied to the Community College program and won a place to go to college for a year, with all expenses paid. There he had the opportunity to live with young people from different countries of the world and polish his English. When he ended, he obtained a Certificate of Children and Family in Professional Development.<\/span><\/p>\n That December of that same year, he received recognition for his achievements in Florida from\nAmerica\u2019s Planned Giving, an allied community to Colombianitos. In November 2016, he traveled\nto Atlanta and met with the president of the foundation, Angela Patricia Janiot, who gave him a private tour on CNN television and then celebrated the 15th anniversary of the foundation together. <\/span><\/p>\n V\u00edctor is an Environmental Technologist at SENA and is currently in the fourth semester\nof Environmental Engineering at UNAD University. In two years he finishes his career and among his plans is to help his family, his community, and work in a multinational company.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Naci\u00f3 en 1998, vive en Puerto Tejada, un municipio del departamento del Cauca, ingres\u00f3 a Colombianitos en el a\u00f1o 2010 y dos a\u00f1os m\u00e1s tarde se convirti\u00f3 en Joven Agente de Cambio (JAC). Aprendi\u00f3 ingl\u00e9s por s\u00ed mismo, ya que sus padres no ten\u00edan las posibilidades de costear un curso especializado, a ra\u00edz de eso […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casos-de-exito","category-destacadas-casos-de-exito"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.colombianitos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Victor-Barona-1-e1620670174429.jpg?fit=650%2C425&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colombianitos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colombianitos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colombianitos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombianitos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombianitos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombianitos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8297,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombianitos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/8297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombianitos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colombianitos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombianitos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colombianitos.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}