Recovery of Puerto Rico through Youth Leadership

Dear friends and supporters:

As you may know, these challenging times have represented extraordinary challenges for our young leaders. However, during these past months, our young leaders continued nonstop to prepare and educate themselves about community leadership and how to develop organizational strategies in a new virtual way.

In November, the young leaders participating in the second round of the TIBOCO project culminated successfully the program of leadership and service. The different virtual workshops and activities that were completed gave them the opportunity to grow at a personal and professional level, providing them the necessary tools to be the leaders that their communities need. 

With your continued support, soon, we will have a third round of TIBOCO, where eleven young people were interviewed, and which is being planned and projected to start in 2021. 

Thank you for your continued commitment!

Gratefully,

Jóvenes de Puerto Rico en Riesgo Team

Links:

• Jovenes de Puerto Rico en Riesgo Official Website
• Jovenes de Puerto Rico en Riesgo Official Facebook Page

Despite the great challenges that we continue facing, our young leaders are still motivated and they have shown their commitment and their leadership through these pandemic times. 

During these past months, the youth participating in the second round of the TIBOCO project have had multiple virtual workshops for building management and leadership skills. They learned proven strategies to work with other people within the communities. As part of their training, they have identified a social challenge within their contexts which they wish to address. During the workshops they learned in detail how to develop their own plans to implement their initiatives, including how to use tools like mapping and needs assessments to support their work plans. Also, they had the opportunity to meet another young community leader who developed his community initiative. He shared how, through photography, video, and technology in general, community and personal issues can be brought to the public eye. Doing photography from another perspective to create a good change was a new concept for our leaders in training. 

With your support more youth were able to reconnect with the organization and to acquire the necessary skills to create an impact in their communities. Through this video you can watch two of our young leaders, Nayely and Heriberto, sharing their special stories of development and growth within the program.

We are all thankful for all your support!

Links:

• Jovenes de Puerto Rico en Riesgo Official Website