2010 Honduras Leadership Action Plan
The 2010 Honduras Team seeks to reduce the rate of pregnancies among youth 10 to 19 years old through an Information, Education and Comunication strategy in the remote region of Puerto Lempira, Honduras, and three surrounding municipalities. This team is working to increase the knowledge of sexually transmitted infections, family planning, understanding of the human body, and self esteem by 70% in 120 youth between the ages of 10 and 19 through five educational workshops, co-hosted by 24 trained youth leaders.
They are also collaborating to increase local youth access to accurate sexual and reproductive health information by providing 10 different radio shows in both the indigenous language, Miskitu, and Spanish. They are working to reach 2,300 youth 10 to 19 years old through this youth radio program. This team has gotten air time donated for their radio program on Winanka Radio in Puerto Lempira and one of their partners has agreed to subsidize a part of the broadcasting costs.
Their final project activity is to educate 20 indigenous youth leaders from the Tawahka community in sexual and reproductive health issues through a three day workshop.
2009 Honduras Leadership Action Plan
The 2009 Honduras Team seeks to reduce the incidence of adolescent pregnancy among youth ages 10-19 in the municipalities of Santa Fé and Bonito Oriental, in the Colon Department of Honduras. The Team hopes to increase the sexual reproductive health (SRH) knowledge of 100 adolescents by 10% through implementing various recreational actives. The Team plans to implement three SRH training camps for 20 selected adolescents. They also plan to implement five recreational activities, such as football games and a carnival, where they will educate 200 adolescents on SRH.
2008 Honduras Leadership Action Plan
The 2008 Honduras Team recognizes the high levels of adolescent pregnancies, maternal mortality, incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and sexual exploitation in the municipalities of Puerto Cortes and Omoa in northern Honduras. The team plans to address these issues through a series of 10 youth leadership workshops focusing on SRH issues with 30 young people, ages 20-30 recruited from partner organizations in order to provide institutional strengthening capacity to these partner organizations. The team hopes to increase the SRH knowledge of youth, ages 14-24, by 60% and conduct various training activities, including a youth camp involving experiential leadership activities, to further strengthen the collaboration and leadership of the core group of 30 youth leaders. During 2009, the Team has held various public relations events to share their LAP with 34 representatives of local governmental, non-governmental and private organizations. These efforts have helped the Team successfully develop community networks and collaborations, including fostering the interest of the Fire Fighters Association to send their youth leaders to the camp, marketing the project webpage they created to organization to promote their services and programs, and collaborating with the UNFPA funded National AIDS Forum Step by Step program in implementing the Team’s project. The Team held its first youth camp in January 2010. They also identified communities where youth leaders will be able to replicate the information they learn at the camp. The Team was able to solidify funding to assist with the community replication process and is continuing its fundraising efforts in order to fund additional youth camps.
Leadership Action Plan Honduras 2007
The 2007 Honduras team seeks to contribute to a reduced national rate of sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV in the youth population of Honduras by providing SRH information on a large scale targeting students at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH). The first objective is to inform, educate and communicate SRH information through an art festival through theatre, photography and a photography exposition for and by youth.
The second objective is to strengthen the leadership of 20 youth at UNAH by providing a series of experientially-based outdoor educational workshops for youth focusing on HIV and STI transmission. The final objective is to establish a new NGO called “Youth in Motion” (“Jovenes en Movimiento”) by implementing a strategic planning and a fundraising plan for founding this new organization in Honduras.
Leadership Action Plan Honduras 2006
The 2006 Honduran Team is working to improve the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of youth ages 14-30 in the city of Tegucigalpa by sensitizing decision makers and politically active youth about SRH. The team aims to further strengthen SRH political advocacy by coordinating meetings between SRH organizations.
The team has met with United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) representatives regarding possible funding, and met with local and international organizations that influence public policy such as the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United National Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the national Alliance for Infants, Adolescents and Youth. Team members were interviewed on television regarding the rights of people living with HIV and provided television, radio and press interviews in support of the movement to defend the SRR of youth and the need for comprehensive sexual education. The team received invitations from the National Congress to participate in youth training programs and participated in an exchange with 20 youth from the United States to educate them on the Honduran SRH and sexual and reproductive rights context.
The Team has held one of two training workshops on SRH and leadership for 20 carefully selected youth leaders in Tegucigalpa. They are completing the filming and production of a short film on SRH directed at youth and government representatives that they plan to screen for youth and SRH decision makers.
Leadership Action Plan Honduras 2005
The 2005 GOJoven Fellows of Honduras are working towards reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS, among youth in the North Atlantic Coast of Honduras. They are increasing knowledge about the prevention of STIs and HIV/AIDS among adolescents ages 12-18 in the towns of Roatán, el Pino, Sambo Creek and Tela.
During the first year of the project, the team successfully implemented the following activities: a workshop on STI, HIV, contraceptives and self esteem to student leaders in the Co-Ed Middle School of the Atlantic Coast (ENMLA) in Tela; a health fair in Sambo Creek for 200 Garifuna youth, their parents and community members in which they distributed HIV prevention information, provided talks on STI and HIV prevention and proper condom use; and provided a three-day educational retreat on SRH, environment, leadership and self esteem to 30 youth in the isolated rural community of el Pino.
The final two activities planned for the island of Roatan include a three-day youth outdoor RH leadership camp for 15 youth leaders, and a two-day series of workshops on self esteem, SRH, HIV and multi-cultural leadership for 50 soccer players ages 15-20 from three soccer teams in the at-risk community of Sandy Bay.
Leadership Action Plan Honduras 2004
The Honduras team is designing and producing an interactive CD-ROM to provide young people ages 11 to 18 with access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information. In response to the dearth of interactive educational material in the region, the Honduras Team decided to develop materials that tap into young people’s interest in computers.
In collaboration with experts in psychology, medicine, communications, and pedagogy, the Fellows have compiled the content and schematization of the CD. They plan to distribute the CD to 40 schools along the northern Atlantic coast and will train two youth leaders in each school on how to use the CD ROM, who in turn will train their peers. Using this methodology, the team plans to educate 600 students.
The CDs have been copied and distributed, and 15 schools in San Pedro have agreed to utilize the CD in their orientation classes.
