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The Let's Peer It Training Camp Teaser Video
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MITCH: ma-GAY-on inside and out
Ranulfo Torregoza | April 2011
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This April our peer of the month shows how peer education and a passion for advocacy can help in gaining respect for stigmatized communities. Meet Ranulfo Torregoza from the Philippines.
Ranulfo, who is known among fellow peer educators as Mitch, is a member of a non – governmental organization (NGO) called GAYON, which literally means “beautiful” in the native language. Mitch started as a peer educator since 2005, among the pioneer members of Y-PEER Philippines, when it was pilot-tested in the Asia and Pacific region.
Being a member of the lesbian, gay, bi or trans-gendered (LGBT) group, this 23-year-old peer educator has helped raise awareness and respect for an often stigmatized portion of the population. Through various innovative educational and social awareness activities in their province, local members of the LGBT community are now being consulted by the government and civil society as partners for implementing activities in their province. These activities have ranged from street beautification, organizing festivals, conducting humanitarian response efforts for victims of natural disasters, as well as many others. Mitch and her organization make use of these opportunities to integrate peer education and contribute to the community. After attending the training organized by Y-PEER Pilipinas and UNFPA, they organized roll out trainings in the street and within the community, winning respect and trust from their target population. As a person with a great heart for the LGBT group, Mitch pushes for the anti-discrimination and stigma campaign for LGBT issues. She also encourages other lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered people to join Y-PEER and become peer educators.
As a Y-PEER member, she has contributed a lot especially in terms of sharing their best practices to the other members of the network. Her activities include gay beauty competitions with adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) awareness, “free-served coffee party” to encourage young people to watch educational movies about sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS and other issues. As well, she has organized outreach activities with general population, including parents, and has motivated attendance to peer education sessions by offering free haircuts to those who attend. Mitch also provided referrals to access youth friendly services, and was able to find local partners to make it successful.
When asked why she continuously does such activities without anything in return, she just smiled and said “I just love doing things to help young people. It doesn’t matter whether it’s small or big, what matters is that we were able to help”. She added that she doesn’t find to be an obligation, but rather that her love and care for young people pushes her to work harder. That is the reason why more young people look up to her and admire her simplicity. She has touched so many lives and continuously makes a difference in the community.
Mitch is a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Midwifery. On her free time she likes to cook while dancing and singing. For her, tough times never last, but tough peer educators do! Truly, this person is not only the source of happiness of the group, but also of practical knowledge. She is a model of patience and beauty, both inside and out, and has earned her title of Peer of the Month several times over. Thank you, Mitch, for all your contributions to Y-PEER and the larger community.
This was shot during the Art Workshop, where we have 45 young participants trained on how to explain your ideas through Graffiti and Photography.
One of the coolest workshops ever done by Y-PEER :)
Check out the Y-PEER Syria Website, it was launched Last year on a very special date, 10-10-2010 at 10.10 PM Cool huh?
Let's know what you think, your opinion ,matters to us :) P.S. the Arabic Version will be launched this year, so stay tuned!
Y-PEER Syria Anti-Doping (Steroids) Campaign during the FIFA WORLD CUP 2010
in only 4 days we were able to reach around 10,000 people most of them were between 15-28 years old.
This Campaign was in coordination with the UNFPA and the Syrian Ministry of Health, and as a result, the MoH have produced a new 25,000 new copy of the Y-PEER Doping Booklet [Dooklet] to be distributed through the MoH outlets around the country!
