{"id":4314,"date":"2018-07-30T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/?p=4314&lang=en"},"modified":"2018-07-30T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T16:51:08","slug":"young-activists-fighting-for-social-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/youth\/young-activists-fighting-for-social-change\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"YOUNG ACTIVISTS FIGHTING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Latin America is the most dangerous region in the world to be an activist.\u00a0 12 people who were fighting for the defense of human rights were murdered in the region in 2017, this is 67.9% of the total worldwide (312), according to the NGO Front Line Defenders.\u00a0 That is, two of every three activists murdered last year were from Latin America.<\/em><\/p>\n

At Smart Citizen Foundation we\u2019re convinced that with collective action it\u2019s possible to create real social change.\u00a0 Idealists?\u00a0 If believing in the construction of stronger and more just democracies is being idealists, then yes we are.<\/p>\n

There is corruption in Latin America, there is inequality, there is little faith in politics.\u00a0 But above all there are thousands of youth who are also idealists with enough energy to move mountains.\u00a0 Youth who firmly believe in the potential of our region and who decided to fight to transform the reality of their communities.<\/p>\n

What would happen if all this energy were articulated to increase its strength and achieved influence in the public agenda?\u00a0 Justly, Smart Citizen\u2019s Advocay School is born.\u00a0 A training-action program for emerging leaders that delivers tools to develop collaborative impact processes and to catalyze projects they are implementing.\u00a0 With it, we look to transmit impact methodologies to youth who fight for political transparency, public security, and social inclusion.<\/p>\n

Every edition of the Impact School starts with a three-day face training that allows participants to introduce themselves, share their experiences and learn methodologies for the creation of collaborative impact strategies that they contribute to learn public problems they face.<\/p>\n

In Peru, for example, Mirtha V\u00e1squez, a participant at the Impact School decided to fight for the eradication of violence against women, especially the violence by members of rondas urbanas <\/em>that badly damage the city of Cajamarca.\u00a0 For that she used the Smart Citizen methodology so that both the authorities and the rondas urbanas would agree to implement discussion spaces and reduce violence, but above all, gender violence.<\/p>\n

For her part, Bibiana Quintero, who is part of the Impact School in Colombia created the Civic Seed, a project designed to fight against the legitimacy of human rights violations that occurred throughout the Colombian armed conflict. For this purpose, she implemented an intervention methodology in the schools, providing civic education and raising awareness about human rights among children and adolescents.<\/p>\n

In its first edition of 2017, the Advocacy School was implemented in four countries in Latin America: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. This year the second edition has already started in Ecuador, Colombia and Guatemala and will now continue with Brazil, Chile and Mexico. To date, the community of participants of the Impact School has more than 50 young people from five countries in Latin America who are working on different civic projects to affect real social changes.<\/p>\n

Every day, leadership networks are created and reinforced throughout the region and a new generation is rising around a common goal: that having strong and just democracies is no longer an ideal but a reality.<\/p>\n

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The work team in Guatemala. Photo: Fundaci\u00f3n Ciudadano Inteligente<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For more information you can visit the page: www.ciudadanointeligente.org or look for them on FB as: @ciudadanointeligente<\/p>\n

Ideas that become actions are part of young people who achieve a change in their space. Cover Photo: Fundaci\u00f3n Ciudadano Inteligente<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Latin America is the most dangerous region in the world to be an activist.\u00a0 12 people who were fighting for the defense of human rights were murdered in the region in 2017, this is 67.9% of the total worldwide (312), according to the NGO Front Line Defenders.\u00a0 That is, two of every three activists murdered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[438],"tags":[601,1320,1259,1322,65,560,1323,1304,107,121,1044],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youth","tag-activism","tag-articles","tag-entremundos","tag-fundations","tag-guatemala","tag-guatemala-en","tag-guatemalan-projects","tag-magazine","tag-quetzaltenango","tag-xela","tag-young-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ljt7-17A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7241,"url":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/world\/vivas-nos-queremos-resistance-at-the-intersection-of-feminism-coronavirus-and-the-police-state\/?lang=en","url_meta":{"origin":4314,"position":0},"title":"Vivas Nos Queremos. 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