Santos Rene Fuentes López

Santos Rene Fuentes López was 22 years old when he became a Fellow in 2010.  This leader is from the community of Sabán in the Municipality of José María Morelos in Quintana Roo.  Santos is an Engineer in agricultural systems of production, graduated from the Intercultural Mayan University of Quintana Roo.  He has worked on several community projects, including resource management projects and environmental education.  Santos taught classes in SRH while in high school.  Through his community work, he has developed his negotiation and community mobilization skills. Santos is passionate about teaching the youth in his community about the connections between protecting the environment and sexual and reproductive health. Santos worked for the Kellogg’s Foundation for 2 years in the project, “Voices and Images,” taking photographs of the problems local communities face and presenting them to decision makers in an event that took place in February of 2010 in the city of Tulum, Quintana Roo.  Currently, Santos works with groups of youth, providing workshops on environmental education and SRH including issues around HIV/AIDS.  As a dedicated community advocate, this young leader’s goal is to work in public service and raise the awareness of youth and study a Master’s in Ecology abroad.