Hello NEAR Community.
Hoping you are doing great and safe, I am very thankful for the opportunity of meeting all the NEAR Venezuela members, their dreams, and expectations in this community.
My name is America Castro @ame9986. I am from Venezuela and live very close to Caracas.
I have a degree in International Affairs with a Human Rights specialty. Though I did not practice for long my profession, it was a knowledge and growth time.
Traveling is one of my biggest passion. I try to fulfill this passion every time I can, but as you know, money does not grow on trees, so I had to figure out other ways to earn money while I kept traveling.
That’s the reason I self-learned how to build and design websites and trade with crypto.
My path through trading taught me a little about blockchain, but I always associated it with financial matters only. How wrong I was!
By the end of 2021, I met @Jloc at a craft beer event, where he explained how NEAR Protocol is the future 
. Since then, my awareness of blockchain has changed.
In these few months, reading and learning about NEAR Protocol have made me more aware of the possibilities of this blockchain and its scope in different areas.
For me, it is such an honor to be part of this community, learn from everyone, and help grow NEAR Protocol in Venezuela and Latin America.
