Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Hi everybody!!!
Hi, let me introduce myself. My name is Alan Jarandilla Nuñez. Im from La Paz - Bolivia. I like reading, listening to music and playing soccer, to mention some of the things I like to do. I'm specially interested in making change in my country because I think that's the first step we have to follow if we want to change the world. I expect to learn from this e-course many things: universal access to HIV treatment, human rights, how to take action, etc. Right now, I've been working in the organization of National United Nations Models in my school, with the main porpose to raise awareness from young people about international issues, such as: climate change, HIV - AIDS, human rights, economy, discrimination, etc. I'm sure this is gonna be a great experience!
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Hi Alan! Great to learn more about you! The course will have a strong focus on human rights, so great that you are already doing work in this area. It will be great for you to share your experiences of the Model UN with others once the course starts next week :)
ReplyDeleteHi Everyone! Hi Alan! Also let me introduce myself, my name is Richard Rodriguez Gaerste from Venezuela, better known as Rick Gaerste all profiles jejejeje, Im dentist, president of a local organization called "ASUVIDA", youth representatives in the Venezuelan network of positive people and national focal point of the Global Youth Coalition on HIV / AIDS "GYCA". I am currently doing a master in educational research that I´ll finished later this year.
ReplyDeleteAs your mentor I´ll be disposal for any questions you may have during the course and I´ll be exchanging ideas with you about your weekly activities. I access to internet at least once a day so my answers will not take long to arrive to you (with the exception of have some leectricidad court, my country is doing much to cut daily and based on that we scheduled our days in Venezuela).
I congratulate you for being one of the first to write on his blog, I think one of the things most needed in the world of youth activism is taking the initiative and act! so I'm quite sure that we´ll really enjoy this course.
Regarding what you say about making changes and start in your country, I think is excellent! I remember some time ago I said something similar and look at me now! So go ahead you're on a very good way!
Greetings
Rick Gaerste
Hi Alan. I am Teja from Indonesia. It's great knowing someone else is doing the action at school. I am developing a curriculum to prevent HIV-AIDS too. My concentration is in Junior High School, they are aroung 13-15 years old, since this intervention is a prevention program. Will be glad if we can educate each other with any information at your school.
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Teja
Hola Alan! I'm looking forward to learning more about how you are using the Model United Nations program to mobilize other students!
ReplyDeleteHi everybody! I'm happy to see that you posted a comment on my blog and now I would liketo reply some of your questions:
ReplyDeleteFirst: Alex! I want to thank you for posting. I have a lot of experience working on the organization of United Nations Models better known as MUNs; a model of the United Nations is a great experience where young people are able to discuss about international problems such as HIV-AIDS, Human Rights, Climate Change, etc. I started the organization of a Model of the United Nations in my school, but this was a national event and we received many participants from all over my country, Bolivia.The main objective of the event was to raise awareness about important problems that affect our world. So as soon as they started investigating about those problems they realized that action is needed to solve them, so they started to work on projects to help their communities cities, etc. that were affected by those problems. Nowadays I'm organizing another Model of the United Nations that is intended to be international because we want to spread the word more and more.
Hi Rick! I'm happy to know you are my e-mentor. I'm sure this is going to be a great experience and I'm sure you'll help me with any question I have. I'll keep contact with you!
ReplyDeleteHi Lia! When I first had the idea, I thought that to mobilize other young people it is important to raise their awareness in important topics such as HIV-AIDS, Human Rights, Climate Change, Economy, Poverty, etc. and we demonstrated that it is possible to raise awareness with the organization of a Model of the United Nations. A Model of the United Nations is an event where young people can discuss about an important problem an also look for possible solutions to those problems. If you would like me to give you further information, please let me know.
ReplyDeleteHi Alan! I'm Lindsay, and I'm the Capacity-Building Program Officer at the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA). I look forward to reading about your progress throughout this course, and keep up the good work!
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