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Elvis Tillett became a Summit Fellow at age 26. He is the Career Guidance and Placement Officer of the National 4-H Youth Development Center, a residential alternative adolescent and youth training institution within Youth for the Future, the Belizean Government’s Youth Department, located in Belmopan City, Belize. Since his participation in 2004, Elvis and 4H have been working to integrate adolescent sexual and reproductive health curriculum into the Center’s Health and Life Skills Education Curriculum. Elvis has worked with a community nurse to provide weekly sessions to over 100 youth on topics such as confidentiality, self esteem, puberty, contraceptives, STI’s, HIV/AIDS, violence/abuse, conflict resolution, drug use and drug abuse, decision making, communication, and goal setting. For the past three years, Elvis has selected a group of 10-15 trainees to form peer support groups that he claims “are a very strong group of young people committed to voice out their needs and opinions.” Collaborating with staff from the Red Cross “Together We Can” project, Elvis will provide the peer youth group with weekly training sessions to become certified health educators and intends to fully integrate Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health content into the Center’s curriculum by September 2007.
National 4H- Youth Development Center
Eva Marisol Burgos
Eva Marisol Burgos – Eva is 27 years old, and was born in Belmopan. In 1994, she moved to the village of St. Matthews where she began to work with young people and became involved in village affairs. She served for three years in the St. Matthews village council as Treasurer, and developed various projects for the benefit of the villagers. Eva then began to work with community nurses and enrolled in a program to train as a community nurse’s aide. While remaining actively involved as a nurse in her community, Eva now also works as the GOJoven Country Representative and as the Emergency Contraception Leadership Initiative Regional Coordinator. She recently graduated from high school at the top of her class and has been selected as a Summit Scholar to continue her studies in the nursing program at the University of Belize this year.
HECOPAB, National 4H Youth Development Center
Dalila Ical
Dalila Icel, was the youngest Fellow in the 2004-2005 pool, selected at age 20. Even at her young age, she works as a reporter and news anchor for the local television station in Orange Walk, and is thus somewhat of a celebrity in her hometown. Dalila wants to use her position as a journalist and a celebrity to educate young people about teen pregnancy, women’s rights and sexuality. She recently started a youth group in Orange Walk, which currently includes about 20 young leaders. She hopes to bring knowledge of reproductive health to this group in order to spread this information more widely throughout the District.
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Rudolph Khendis Ellis
Student, Grambling State University, LA
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