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Eben Reyes became a Summit Fellow when he was 23. He works in San Pedro Sula with Comunicacion para la vida (COMVIDA), a local government program focusing on AIDS/HIV prevention among youth. As leader of his local Adventist church, Eben also plays an active role in the lives of the religious youth in his community. He is commited to educating her peers about HIV and is very interested in using his IT background to teach youth via the internet. He presently lives in Pasadena, California.
Elvis Tillett
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.
Centaur Cable Network
Rudolph Khendis Ellis
Student, Grambling State University, LA
Claudia Rosado Huerta Maestra
Bachilleres II
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
GOJoven's Mission
GOJoven promotes and supports young leaders to act as catalysts for social change in Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health. Read more here
Leadership Action Plans
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