Juan Gilberto Escobar Reyes

Juan Gilberto Escobar Reyes, 19, has worked with Proyecto Payaso in HIV prevention and education, as well as with an association of people with disabilities using popular education techniques. He has been active in community mobilization and development, as well as local policy advocacy. Gilberto recently joined the local organization of traditional midwives of Quetzaltenango, where he supports the midwifery school in designing its curriculum and disseminating the organization’s materials on topics such as menstruation and breastfeeding. He is currently writing a book about the history of Guatemala and plans to create a popularized version to make it accessible to low-literacy populations. He hopes that GOJoven will give him new SRH knowledge to share with local midwives and youth.