Sandra Marivel Pérez Pop became a GOJoven Fellow at age 18 and is a Mayan woman from Livingston, Izabal. Currently, she is a student of sustainable tourism at the Ak Tenamit Association. Sandra has three years of volunteer experience working on an AIDS prevention project using clown methodology. She travels with a group of clowns to rural communities and to Livingston to teach the population about the importance of HIV prevention. Recently, Sandra was invited and awarded a grant to represent Guatemala in an International Conference on Women and HIV in Kenya, Africa to share her experiences from Izabal. Sandra wants to continue to uncover in the field of counseling and community work on HIV and hopes to study psychology in the future.
Instituto Particular Mixto Ak´tenamit Instituto Ak ´tenmit
