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Clearwater Sister Cities Inc. Young Ambassador Presentation
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Clearwater Sister Cities Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides many cultural exchange events for the community centered around Clearwater’s Sister City, Nagano, Japan. Their Young Ambassador program allows middles school students the opportunity to experience life in Japan firsthand. They spend a week sightseeing and a week with a homestay family in Nagano while attending a local school. Though this trip is funded primarily by the parents of students and partially by organization, the City of Clearwater provides one scholarship per year to a Clearwater resident.