Noticias

On the evening of Saturday, July 19th, the participants of the third group of Community Agents received their certificates, during the culmination ceremony of this innovative course aimed at young activists. With the words of Sergio Lopez, Secretary General of SOMOSGAY and Adolfo Ruiz, the Youth Program Coordinator, the event took place with an entertaining toast.

The members of this third class of Community Agents on Human Rights and Health are: Alberto Toshio Akita, Antonio Benítez Rivas, Cristina Soledad Peña, Daniel Bueno Villafañe, Dely Gissella Araujo, Diego Jesús Tamás, Diego Simón Ramírez, Erenia Romero, Eugenio Ramón Allende, Francisca Elizabeth Arzamendia, Freddy Esquivel, Luis Fernando Uliambre, María Eugenia Gaona, Mauricio Vásquez Franco, Natalia Medina Arévalo, Richar Gabriel Alvarez, Rocío Elizabeth Fernández, Romina Rolón Araujo, Romina Marycruz Verna, Sheila Renata Rodas, Sara Raquel Orrego and Vladimir Fernando Guerin.

The themes developed in these series of workshops and discussions included the Use of Recreational Drugs, by Ariel González, Gender and Behavioral Expressions of Sexuality by the Psychologist Patricia Aguilar, LGBT Civil Rights by the Lawyer María Inés López, Heteronormativity by Dominica Vera, HIV Behavioral and Epidemiological Data in Gay Men by Dr. María Vera, Training on Voluntary Counseling and Testing for Peers, by the counselors of the Kuimba'e Clinic Paloma Vera and Carlos Sánchez, LGBT History developed by the historian Francisco Alcaraz, Public Policy for Youth in Paraguay by Community Psychologist student Mirtha Estigarribia, among other skills building sessions and dynamics on the mentioned themes.

Community Agents is an innovative program developed by SOMOSGAY in Paraguay with European Union (EU), Fundación Triángulo and the Valladolid City Hall (Spain), to train new youth leaders, so that they are upright propagators of new and innovative health and human rights paradigms. The Community Agents are people trained in order to look into their lives, families and neighborhoods from a different perspective, recognising the problems and how to deal with them, raising awareness of sexual health and human rights in Paraguay.

The Community Agents team is aimed at all those who wish to participate in actions in favor of human rights in their communities, and the next module of courses will be held in the month of August. For further information about this program and its content, contacts are available at SOMOSGAY by calling +595 21 495 802 or via www.somosgay.org/contact