Maynor Roberto Morales Coroxon

Roberto, a 2005 fellow, is an indigenous youth leader who has worked as an HIV/AIDS researcher, educator, and activist with indigenous communities in rural Guatemala since 2001.  He has extensive experience helping indigenous groups develop and write proposals for community improvement projects.  Roberto currently directs a youth group that is focused on human rights for people living with HIV. The group advocates with the municipal government to provide services for people living with HIV and water sanitation and trash collection for the community.  The group also provides humanitarian relief after natural disasters, organizes sports teams and a musical group “Aboriginal Batucada”, a youth lead percussion group.  Roberto speaks 4 indigenous languages, which enables him to provide SRH education to different indigenous communities in his municipality. From 2002 to 2007 he worked at Proyecto Payaso educating rural communities throughout Guatemala about a broad range of sexual and reproductive health issues using performance art and other creative forms of communication.  In 2010, with the support of the Summit Foundation, he implemented an ASRH and gender-based violence prevention project for the victims of tropical storm Agatha.