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Grupo Curumim: Youth Activists and Peer Educators
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Girls at Curumim sexuality education class.
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Founded in 1989 in the northeastern city of Recife, Brazil, Grupo Curumim works to improve public health services and expand sexual and reproductive health education at the local, state, and national level, including training traditional birth attendants.
Grupo Curumim’s youth program, Cunhatã, which IWHC has funded since its inception in 2001, is designed to respond to adolescents’ need for information and education on sexuality and sexual and reproductive rights. Cunhatã organizes workshops that provide youth with comprehensive and accurate information about their health and rights in order to inform and empower young people to reach adulthood in good health.
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Young people watch their peers perform a play on unwanted pregnancy and abortion at Curumim.
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Cunhatã’s program participants are active in various state and national adolescent and youth rights networks, including the Regional Youth Network (Rede Regional de Jovens), and the Brazilian Adolescent Movement (MAB, Movimento de adolescentes Brasileiros). They have also participated in local and state initiatives, such as demonstrations protesting violence against women.
Page last updated 5/1/08.
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