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Documents and downloads for Fellows.Hector Cima
Hector Cima was selected as a Fellow at age 29 while working in Felipe Carillo Puerto community health worker for Amigos de Sian Ka’an, the most important environmental NGO in Quintana Roo. With his Mayan language skills, trusted position in the community, and work at an environmental NGO, he has the ability to communicate important information to people who would otherwise not have access to such information. He also has the potential to make the linkages between population and environment issues real and tangible in the communities and organization in which he works. Today Hector is a preschool teacher in San Juan.
Escuela Vicente Guerrero, Comunidada San Juan.
Adriana Varillas
Adriana Varillas was 28 when selected as a Summit Fellow and was a writer for the La Voz del Caribe newspaper, based in Cancun, with a circulation extending throughout the northern part of Quintana Roo. She specializes in writing about the environment, but also covers gender, human rights, politics, and other issues. She is intelligent, passionate and committed to social justice. Today, Adriana works as a reporter and correspondent for El Universal. She recently completed a Campus Tour with the Sierra Club, talking to students and young people in Ohio in 2007 and is currently editing an essay to be included in an upcoming anthology, The New Population Challenge.
El Universal
Dunia Carola Orellana Guifarro
Dunia Carola Orellana Guifarro tenía 21 años cuando se hizo Becaria Summit y es reportera de salud en la oficina de San Pedro Sula de La Prensa, el periódico más grande de Honduras. Es energética, dedicada, le apasiona el tema de salud y planifica seguir su carrera de periodista en este campo. Su pasión para temas de salud viene de su experiencia personal con VIH y tiene un potencial tremendo para impactar a la salud reproductiva por todo Honduras usando las medias de comunicación.
Diario “La Prensa”
Matilde Cali Jatz
Matilde Cali Jiatz is a 29-year-old Mayan woman who has overcome tremendous personal challenges; she is a young leader with amazing determination and perseverance. When her mother died at an early age, Matilde left school to help take care of her family. Years later, she returned to finish high school, and is currently studying social work and working full-time at SHARE Guatemala on a community health and education program. She has worked as a trainer and community educator for several years, providing women and young people with information on reproductive health and family planning.
SHARE Guatemala
Maria Manuela Garcia Pú
Manuela Garcia Puc became a Summit Fellow at age 28. As a Mayan woman, Manuela worked within ASECSA’s advocacy program focusing on gender policy and advocacy, both at the national level and within the organization. Prior to coming to ASECSA, she trained young Mayan women who work as domestic servants in Guatemala about their reproductive and sexual health and rights. She is interested in expanding ASECSA’s focus on adolescent reproductive health, both at the policy and programmatic levels. Manuela recently finished her studies in Social Work and recently returned from Spain with her Master’s Degree.
Realizando sus Estudios de Maestría.
Erikson Bersani Garcia
Erikson Garcia was selected as a Summit Fellow at age 26. He is an extremely dynamic young leader who worked for the Guatemalan Ministry of Health’s program on young people. Erikson is an advocate within the government, promoting a broader understanding of young people’s sexual and reproductive rights. Erikson is widely recognized as an up and coming leader in the Sexual and Reproductive Health field in Guatemala and is involved in a multi-organization task force on adolescent reproductive and sexual health. As an openly gay young man in a very conservative country, Erikson has faced challenges in his life and become a stronger and more resolute person as a result. In a recent update, we learned that Erikson is now the Director of Training and Program Manager of CONJUVE, a youth leadership project to prevent HIV/AIDS.
Consejo Nacional de la Juventud, CONJUVE
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