Buena Vista
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Nohemí de los Angeles Somoza Pérez ‘11
Age: 16
Community: Buena Vista
Sector: del Valle
About: Nohemí is a youth coordinator in her community. She wants to be a promoter because she is interested in helping young people in her community and believes that the opportunity to help others is a beautiful gift.
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Roberto Carlos Montenegro ‘11
Age: 14
Comunity: Buena Vista
Sector: del Valle
About: Roberto just completed sixth grade. He wants to be a promoter to help people in his community and improve his community’s health. He is working with other promoters in his community to plan a community clean-up. |
La Ceiba
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José Francisco Martínez ‘11
Age: 20
Comunity: La Ceiba
About: Francisco is a high school graduate. He wants to be a health promoter to help his community. In his opinion, there are often very simple things that we can get started that can help our communities, such as sharing information about different illnesses. He would like to coordinate with other organizations to organize health campaigns. Topics that interest him include family planning and urinary tract infections. |
Lilliam del Socoro Martínez ‘11
Age: 28
Comunity: La Ceiba
About: Lilliam wants to be a promoter to help her community in whatever way she can. She is a responsible and friendly person. She wants to learn to how to inject and how to clean wounds. |
María García Martínez ‘11
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Cerro Grande
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Rosibel Arceda Salgado ‘11
Age: 33
Community: Cerro Grande
Sector: # 3
About: Rosibel participates in the Christian Reform School. She wants to be a health promoter to teach other people in her community so they can have better futures. She wants to learn about as many health topics as possible to develop her abilities. |
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La Corona
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Helen Escobar Castellón ‘11
Age: 28
Comunity: La Corona
About: When Helen was younger, she participated with CESESMA, a local non-profit organization that supports children and young people in developing skills which enable them to take on an active role in their communities and in their personal lives. She also participates with OMOYS, a women’s health network that provides family planning and other trainings to women. She wants to be a health promoter to continue to be active and of service to her community. Topics that interest her include family planning and natural remedies. |
María Elsa Granados ‘09
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Age: 52
Community: La Corona
About: Elsa is a leader in her community. This is demonstrated through her concern for the wellbeing of the members of her community in different ways. For example, she completed house to house visits to raise money for the construction of a health post in La Corona. Without this effort, this important resource would not exist. Elsa is knowledgeable about natural remedies and wants to continue to learn in order to help her promote health in her community. |
Las Delicias
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Alba Luz Aguilar ‘11
Age: 30
Comunity: Las Delicias
About: Alba wants to be a health promoter so that she can learn new things and share her knowledge with her community. She wants to learn more about first aid so that she is able to respond in case of an emergency in her community. She would also like to learn more about water contamination and how it can be avoided. |
Amparo Lisseth Pérez Méndez ‘10
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Age: 24
Community: Las Delicias
About: Amparo completed university studies as an executive secretary. She is very participatory and she likes doing work in her community that is meaningful. She highly values responsibility and effective communication. |
Ivania Mercedes Orosco ‘11
Age: 42
Comunity: Las Delicias
About: Mercedes did not attend elementary school but she is a very good learner and a good example for her family. She wants to be a promoter to help her community. She is interested in supporting her community in increasing their awareness of community cleanliness. She would also like to learn more about first aid. |
María Mendez Talavera ‘10
Age: 52
Community: Las Delicias
About: María is a women’s rights activist. She is a representative of OMOYS, a women’s health network that provides family planning and other trainings to women. She attends monthly workshops with this group. She has a passion for learning. She is very participatory and service oriented. |
Guadalupe
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Carolina del Carmen Maldonado Sánchez ‘11
Age: 19
Comunity: Guadalupe
Sector: Arriba
About: Carolina wants to be a health promoter to provide service to her community. She wants to gain more knowledge about natural remedies because she thinks this would be useful in her community. She is particularly interested in care of children and the elderly. |
Elyin Emerson Pérez García ‘11
Age: 15
Comunity: Guadalupe
Sector: Arriba
About: Emerson wants to be a health promoter to learn and to help his community. He would like to become a leader in his community. Topics which interest him include community cleanliness and disease prevention to improve overall health in his community. He is dynamic and participatory and works well with others. |
Hellen del Rosario González Reyes ‘11
Age: 28
Community: Guadalupe
Sector: Arriba
About: Hellen participates in the Community Movement in Guadalupe. She wants to be a health promoter so she can learn about natural medicine, as well as women and child health and apply what she learns to help her community. |
Julio Cesar Sánchez Martínez ‘11
Age: 38
Community: Guadalupe
Sector: Arriba
About: Julio is a teacher. He wants to be a health promoter to provide a needed service to his community and to continue to learn important new topics. He is interested in further developing his knowledge of natural medicine. |
La Laguna
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Heydin Danelia Pérez ‘11
Age: 28
Community: La Laguna
About: Heydin wants to be a promoter to learn more about health so she can help her community. She is interested in learning about malnutrition in children and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. |
Karla Vanessa Murillo ‘11
Age: 16
Community: La Laguna
About: Vanessa is the captain of the girls football team in her community. She also participates with a youth group at the Casa del Niño, a center providing art classes and other skill development trainings. She wants to be a promoter to help those in need. She is interested in learning more about sexually transmitted disease and respiratory illness. She is a painter and is hoping to incorporate her artistic skills into her work as a promoter. |
Nerys Picado Rodriguez ‘11
Age: 35
Community: La Laguna
About: Nerys wants to be a health promoter so that her community has adequate follow-up with regards to health issues. She also wants to give community presentations about prevention. She wants to work with the youth of her community as well as with adults. Other topics of interest to her include first-aid and community cleanliness. |
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Monte Grande
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Andres López Ochoa ‘10
Age: 33
Region: La Reyna
Community: Monte Grande
About: Andres is a leader in his community and an elected community representative. He likes supporting other members of his community in their endeavors. He also attends school on the weekends and works his family farm. As a promoter, he helps to organize monthly community clean-ups and has collaborated on a number of other community projects. In collaboration with health promoters from various communities, he wrote a song about the dangers of smoking to be presented during community gatherings and in schools. |
Damaris Sánchez Gómez ‘10
Age: 31
Region: La Reyna
Community: Monte Grande
About: Damaris is an active participant in various community projects, including monthly community clean-ups. She likes being a health promoter because she feels that people listen to what she has to share and respect her more because she is a promoter. She is one of six promoters who volunteered to be part of the recruitment committee in 2011. This group developed the strategy used by the program to recruit 40 new promoters, including promoters from 5 vulnerable communities not previously involved in the program. When Damaris first became a health promoter she was very shy, but she has made impressive improvements in her presentation skills and confidence. |
Isabel Gómez Sánchez ‘09
Age: 40
Region: La Reyna
Community: Monte Grande |
Nilda López ‘09
Age: 21
Region: La Reyna
Community: Monte Grande
About: In addition to being a health promoter, Nilda is a tour guide in her community and also is the leader of a youth group through her church. She recently finished studying for a University degree in Agronomy, and works at the UCA-ACS San Ramón. Alongside her mother, Valeria, and her siblings, Andres and Carolina, she leads informational meetings in the houses in her community.“Through the workshops I have been able to overcome my nerves. Now what I love most is performing First Aid.” |
Ruth Carolina López ‘10
Age: 20
Region: La Reyna
Community: La Reyna
About: Carolina is a very active and dedicated health promoter, both in her community and during workshops with promoters from other communities. She is one of six promoters who volunteered to be part of the recruitment committee in 2011. This group developed the strategy used by the program to recruit 40 new promoters, including promoters from 5 vulnerable communities not previously involved in the program. Almost all of these new promoters were elected by their communities during recruitment visits which were arranged and facilitated by the recruitment team. |
Saturdina Sanchez Gómez ‘10
Age: 36
Region: La Reyna
Community: La Reyna
About: Saturdina is dedicated to taking care of her children. She is also very interested in learning about health. She attends workshops and gives presentations in her community about health topics. She wants to be a health promoter to improve her self-esteem and to serve her community. She does home visits in her community about waste management and community cleanliness. |
Valeria Ochoa Sevilla ‘09
Age: 52
Region: La Reyna
Community: Monte Grande
About: Valeria is dedicated to being a health promoter. She is especially interested in working with pre-teens and pregnancy. Through the trainings, she has become quite confident talking about respiratory health and illnesses.“With time, I hope to learn many new things. For example, I would love to learn how to give injections.” |
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La Pacayona
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Irene Gómez Díaz ‘10
Age: 46
Community: La Pacayona
About: Irene was a brigadista de salud for 8 years. She has been a midwife in her community for over 20 years. She likes to give presentations in the school in her community about important topics. She often works with her son, who helps with reading, writing and notes and who would like to become a health promoter someday as well. |
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La Pita
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Dinora García Díaz ‘10
Age: 23
Community: La Pita
About: Dinora is a dedicated and charismatic promoter. She is one of six promoters who volunteered to be part of the recruitment committee in 2011. This group developed the strategy used by the program to recruit 40 new promoters, including promoters from 5 vulnerable communities not previously involved in the program. Almost all of these new promoters were elected by their communities during recruitment visits which were arranged and facilitated by the recruitment team. Dinora does an excellent job of presenting the program to others. She is one of two program assistants hired by TFH for the 2011-2012 year. |
Marcos Isaías Sevilla ‘10
Age: 20
Community: La Pita
About: Isaías is excited about being a promoter so that he can help his community. He is currently working on organizing a community cleanliness campaign with the other promoters in his community. |
Norvin Díaz ‘10
Age: 16
Community: La Pita
About: Norvin is a dynamic and approachable health promoter. Members of his community feel very comfortable with him. He wants to be as prepared and knowledgeable as he can as a promoter so that he can provide useful information and have something of value to contribute to community projects. |
Xiomara del Carmen Blandino López ‘10
Age: 20
Community: La Pita
About: Xiomara is one of the 2010-2011 program assistants. Her work as a program assistant was immensely helpful both for the promoters and for Teach for Health. She is also one of six promoters who volunteered to be part of the recruitment committee in 2011. This group developed the strategy used by the program to recruit 40 new promoters, including promoters from 5 vulnerable communities not previously involved in the program. Almost all of these new promoters were elected by their communities during recruitment visits which were arranged and facilitated by the recruitment team. |
Yara Liseth García Fajardo ‘10
Age: 19
Community: La Pita
About: Yara is a very active and dynamic health promoter. She is one of six promoters who volunteered to be part of the recruitment committee in 2011. This group developed the strategy used by the program to recruit 40 new promoters, including promoters from 5 vulnerable communities not previously involved in the program. Almost all of these new promoters were elected by their communities during recruitment visits which were arranged and facilitated by the recruitment team. |
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El Plomo
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José Albany Chavarría Picado ‘11
Age: 21
Community: El Plomo #1
About: Albany is in his second year of university studies. His field of study is business administration. He volunteers with World Vision and is one of two program assistants hired by TFH for the 2011-2012 year. He wants to be a promoter to learn more and share what he learns with others. He is interested in first aid, family planning, venereal diseases and respiratory illness.“Through the formation of this program, my community is getting organized. This is very important, because we will be more successful working together.” |
Lidia Pérez Montoya ‘11
Age: 24
Community: El Plomo
Sector: #3
About: Lidia wants to be a promoter to help her community move forward. Topics of interest to her are respiratory illness, family planning and sexually transmitted diseases. |
Mario José Sánchez Picado ‘11
Age: 24
Community: El Plomo
Sector: # 1
About: Mario participates in a youth network through the Legal Justice Center. He wants to be useful as a promoter, maintain a positive relationship with his community, and help it whatever ways he can. Topics of interest to him are first aid, respiratory illness, family planning and sexually transmitted diseases. He highly values participation and responsibility. |
Martha Azucena Picado Zamora ‘11
Age: 45
Community: El Plomo
Sector: #1
About: Martha Azucena volunteers with the Women’s Legal Office and holds herself responsible for the women of her community. She also works with the Women’s Network of the North through the Catalana Association. She wants to be a health promoter to help her community and spread knowledge and awareness. Other areas of interest include first aid, venereal diseases, family planning and disease prevention. |
Yiselda Idania Blandón Picado ‘11
Age: 21
Community: El Plomo
Sector: #2
About: Idania volunteers with the Centro Jurídico Popular and she is an elected representative of her community. She would like to study to be a nurse. She wants to be a promoter to develop her skills and knowledge and to have a positive impact in her community. She is a dynamic communicator and has strong presentation skills. |
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Pueblo Viejo
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Alba Rosa Altamirano Averuz ‘10
Age: 24
Community: Puebo Viejo
About: Alba loves to learn and enjoys attending workshops. She does home visits in her community along with presentations in the primary school. She is service oriented and has good relationships with the members of her community. |
Belki Altamirano Averuz ‘10
Age: 16
Community: Puebo Viejo
About: Belki volunteers in the health center in her community. She is excited to be a health promoter so that she can offer valuable information and assistance to her community. She gives presentations in the primary school about disease prevention, among other topics. |
La Reyna
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Elizabeth Molina Torres ’09
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El Roblar
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Adalila Zamora Valdivia ‘09
Age: 18
Community: El Roblar
About: Adalila is a youth promoter and has been a brigadista through MINSA for two years. Every month she works with her community to do clean-ups. She has also given a talk in her community about the importance of children washing their hands to avoid illness. She believes that she has great skills in family planning but on the other hand wants to improve her knowledge of first aid in order to better serve people.“There is a lot of need and therefore I feel that the will to help people in the community is really important.”
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Fatima del Rosario Cruz Rodriguez ‘09
Age: 21
Community: El Roblar
About: In addition to being a health promoter, Fatima attends school and also serves as a youth promoter. She’s interested in promoting respiratory health but sees all health topics as being equally important.“It has been interesting to be able to study a few health issues more in depth.” |
Seyling Lorena Garcia Lopez ‘09
Age: 19
Community: El Roblar
About: Seyling is a health promoter and a youth promoter in her community. She also works as a volunteer mother caring for children and she attends school on Saturdays. She has enjoyed working with her community to do garbage collections every fifteen days and also in promoting personal hygiene. She knows that there will always be difficulties, but is ready to learn more in order to prepare herself to confront those issues.“There is always more to be learned.”
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Samulalí
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Angélica María Hernández González ‘11
Age: 17
Community: Samulalí
Sector: Abajo
About: Angélica is in her third year of high school. She wants to be a promoter to help her community move forward and to help sick people. She is interested in nutrition and she is excited to give presentations in her community about health. |
Jorge Gabino González Aráuz ‘11
Age: 20
Community: Samulalí
Sector: Arriba
About: Jorge is in his third year of high school. He wants to be a health promoter to help people in his community. He wants to learn about disease prevention and is particularly interested in working with pregnant women in his community.
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Juana Antonia Martínez Martínez ‘11
Age: 17
Community: Samulalí
Sector: Arriba
About: Juana is in her third year of high school. She wants to be a health promoter so that she can support her community and help it move forward. She is interested in child nutrition.
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Juana Isabel Gómez Barrera ‘11
Age: 16
Community: Samulalí
Sector: Arriba
About: Juana is in her second year of high school. She wants to be a health promoter to help her community and to provide information to her community members that will improve health. She is interested in learning how to maintain a strong and healthy body. |
Lourdes del Rosario Hernández Barrera ‘11
Age: 18
Community: Samulalí
Sector: Arriba
About: Lourdes is in her third year of high school. She wants to be a health promoter to help her community prosper and to be able to help those who are sick. She is interested in learning more about child malnutrition.
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Magda Ivett Gómez González ‘11
Age: 21
Community: Samulalí
Sector: Arriba
About: Magda is in her first year of university studies. She wants to be a health promoter to develop more as a person and to provide important health information to the members of her community. She is interested in working with young people in her community and wants to learn more about sexuality and the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
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Orbelina del Rosario Gaitán Méndez ‘11
Age: 18
Community: Samulalí
Sector: Abajo
About: Orbelina is in her second year of high school. She wants to be a promoter to help her community to move forward. She is also interested in working with pregnant women and would like to learn more about malnutrition in children.
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Sayda del Carmen Sánchez Mártinez ‘11
Age: 18
Community: Samulalí
Sector: Abajo
About: Sayda is in her fifth year of high school. She wants to be a health promoter to learn and to serve her community. She also says that she is excited to be able to learn from and work with members of her community.
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Yilber Leonardo González Herrera ‘11
Age: 18
Community: Samulalí
Sector: Arriba
About: Yilber wants to be a health promoter to learn about what makes a community healthy and so that he is able to make a positive difference in his community. He wants to learn how to inject.
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San Juan
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Doris Huerta ‘10
Age: 59
Region: Sábana Grande
Community: San Juan
About: Doña Doris is a brigadista de salud as well a health promoter. She is also the head of her household and participates in her community’s farming cooperative. She is a charismatic and confident woman and is a joy to have in a workshop. She works as a promoter in collaboration with her daughter, Janeth.
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Janeth Molinares Huerta ‘09
Age: 28
Region: Sábana Grande
Community: San Juan
About: Janeth is an educator in a program for young children ages 0-6 years. She is also a gender promoter and has served the role for four years. She hopes to dedicate some of her time addressing intra-familiar violence. Despite some challenges as a health promoter, she has a strong will to affect change. She works in collaboration with her mother, Doris Huerta.
“Being a health promoter means accepting the role and being available to dedicate time to such a cause.”
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San Pablo
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Amado Pérez Hernández ‘11
Age: 22
Community: San Pablo
Sector: Mina Verde #2
About: Amado is an elected coordinator in his community. He wants to be a health promoter to learn more about health and to be able to share what he learns with his community.
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Ariel Hernández Dávila ‘11
Age: 28
Community: San Pablo
Sector: Central
About: Ariel wants to help his community to improve health. He wants to be a positive influence in his community and help those in need. He is particularly interested in environmental health, balanced nutrition, and first aid.
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Deyvi José Hernández ‘10
Age: 26
Comunidad: San Pablo
Sector: Mina Verde #1
About: Deyvi works as a farmer in his community. He wants to be a health promoter because he wants to be able to provide a useful service to the members of his community.
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Enrique Escobar Sánchez ‘11
Age: 25
Comunidad: San Pablo
Sector: Mina Verde #1
About: Enrique is an elected leader in his community. He is studying to be licensed in economic science, public affairs and finance. He wants to be a health promoter to support his community. His sister, Ivania, is also a promoter.
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Eteling Valeska Dávilas López ‘11
Edad: 14
Community: San Pablo
Sector: Mina Verde #2
About: Eteling is in high school. She volunteers with ODESAR, ODESAR, a group providing support and trainings related to a variety of community health projects such as the making and use of biofertilizer and the integration of tube systems to supply water to rural communities. She wants to be a health promoter so that she can support her community and improve the wellbeing of every member of her community. She is interested in working with children and would like to learn more about family planning. She would also like to learn how to inject.
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Francisco Javier Martínez Hernández ‘11
Age: 24
Community: San Pablo
Sector: Mina Verde #2
About: Chico wants to be a health promoter to support his community. He strives to be a responsible and caring health promoter and values the opportunity to learn more about community health so he will be better able to serve his community.
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Ivania del Carmen Escobar Sánchez ‘11
Age: 19
Commuity: San Pablo
Sector: Mina Verde #1
About: Ivania is an elected youth coordinator in her community. She wants to be a health promoter to help keep her community clean and provide information to members of her community about health topics, including natural remedies. She is also interested in learning more about first aid so she can help members of her community in case of emergency. Her brother, Enrique, is also a promoter.
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Juan Francisco Dávila Granados ‘11
Age: 16
Community: San Pablo
Sector: Central
About: Juan is about to graduate from high school. He wants to be a health promoter to learn more about health and to help his community. He is particularly interested in learning more about first aid and how to improve community cleanliness and hygiene practices. He participates in a local theater group and is also a musician. He hopes to incorporate these talents into his work as a promoter.
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Katy Carolina López Sánchez ‘11
Age: 19
Community: San Pablo
Sector: Mina Verde #2
About: Katy is an elected representative of her community. She wants to be a health promoter so she can serve as an effective health resource to her fellow community members. She is interested in family planning and would also like to learn how to inject.
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María Jolanda Sánchez Pérez ‘11
Age: 35
Community: San Pablo
Sector: Mina Verde #1
About: Jolanda volunteers with ODESAR, a group providing support and trainings related to a variety of community health projects such as the making and use of bio-fertilizer and the integration of tube systems to supply water to rural communities. She wants to be a health promoter to help her community in whatever ways she can. She is eager to learn so she can support her community.
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Melania García Ramos ‘10
Age: 17
Community: San Pablo
Sector: Mina Verde #1
About: Melania attends high school in San Ramón and lives at home with her family. She is very interested in helping her community and is happy that she has the support of so many other new promoters in her community.
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Nelson Aroldo Vílchez Guido ‘11
Age: 13
Community: San Pablo
Sector: Central
About: Nelson is in his first year of high school. He participates with CESESMA, a local non-profit organization that supports children and young people in developing skills which enable them to take on an active role in their communities and in their personal lives. He wants to be a health promoter because he loves to learn and he wants to help his community. He is interested in learning more about natural remedies.
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Santa Lucía
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Juana Díaz Hernández ‘09
Age: 54
Community: Santa Lucia (185 people)
About: Juana is very active in her community. She is a health promoter and a gender promoter. She also has acquired some midwifery skills. She has successfully been able to reach out to her community through giving presentations on topics such as personal hygiene and preventative measures for respiratory illnesses. For example, as a result of Juana’s efforts, many people have been convinced to move their sleeping spaces away from their kitchen areas in their homes to reduce the inhalation of smoke. Juana is dedicated to helping her community and is eager to continue developing her skills as a health promoter.
“I started out tending to people as a young girl, watching my mother help deliver births and applying her knowledge of natural remedies.”
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Maynor Eliezer Ramos Dávila ‘10
Age: 16
Community: Santa Lucía
About: Maynor is a dynamic and participatory health promoter. He is a youth leader in his community and attends high school in San Ramón. He wants to be a health promoter to develop as a person and learn more about health.
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Reynaldo Pérez Maldonado ‘10
Age: 42
Community: Santa Lucía
About: Reynaldo is a musician in the catholic church. He also uses his musical talent to perform at community functions. He helped to develop and perform a song about the perils of smoking during the 2010 summer workshops. He hopes to be able to perform this and other songs about health in his community in the future. He is also a brigadista through the Ministry of Health and works as a farmer in his community as well.
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Sayda del Carmen González Hernández ‘11
Age: 15
Community: Santa Lucía
About: Sayda wants to be a health promoter to help her community and to continue to learn about health. She is particularly interested in learning more about care of the elderly and common health problems of young children.
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El Trentino
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Dalila Lily Hernández Mendoza ‘09
Age: 22
Community: El Trentino
About: Dalila works as a team with her mother Maria. They both also serve as Brigadistas through the Ministry of Health. She expresses hope to learn more from her mother about being a midwife. She particularly enjoys increasing her knowledge about herbal medicine and natural healing. She is glad to be participating in the health promoter program. |
María Mendoza ‘09
Age: 53
Community: El Trentino
About: In addition to being a Health Promoter, María is a Brigadista through the Nicaragua Ministry of Health (MINSA) and has been a midwife for 19 years. She also serves as the president of the parent group in the local school where she works with the community to address academic and social issues that arise. She is extremely active in her community and continues to seek participation and collaboration in the promotion of healthy living.
“I feel happy with the support of Teach for Health, the support of MINSA and the support of UCA–we will make a good package.”
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