Talita Montiel d´ Oliveira Castro's Bio

My YES! Jams
2003 World Jam

Org: Global Youth Action Network
Location: Sao Paulo
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Bio:

Talita began working with young people in 1999, when she was a member of an environmental awareness-raising group that worked on alternative forms of development and alternative models of living. She is now director of the Brazilian division of Global Youth Action Network (online at www.takingitglobal,org). This international organization facilitates youth participation and intergenerational partnership in global decision-making by supporting collaboration among diverse youth movements and providing tools, resources, and recognition for positive youth action. Currently, she is building a Transformation Youth Movement, compiling a National Youth Guide of youth organizations, creating a National Youth Council, as well as participating in and organizing several national and international conferences.

"The Jam was a space outside of the everyday world: a place without time, agendas or obligations. It’s a respectful community in which people can really see different points of view and the essence of human beings. It’s a place to reconnect with the world from which all of us come. Thanks, thanks and thanks for this opportunity…it’s one everyone should have!"