{"id":4769,"date":"2022-01-24T22:36:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/news-and-stories\/youth-to-youth-comprehensive-sexuality-education-in-bolivia\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:10:52","slug":"youth-to-youth-comprehensive-sexuality-education-in-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/pt\/news-and-stories\/youth-to-youth-comprehensive-sexuality-education-in-bolivia\/","title":{"rendered":"De jovem para jovem: Educa\u00e7\u00e3o sexual abrangente na Bol\u00edvia"},"template":"","class_list":["post-4769","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-stories","article_format-stories-of-change","issue_tax-sex-ed","issue_legacy-comprehensive-sexuality-education","location-bolivia"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"article_type":21,"article_format":150,"authors":"","add_button":false,"button_type":"link","button":"","download":"","download_button_text":"","featured_image":4770},"sidebar":{"issues":{"title":"Quest\u00f5es priorit\u00e1rias","issues":[36]},"locations":{"title":"Localiza\u00e7\u00e3o","locations":[156]},"partners":{"title":"Parceiros","partners":""}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_hero_article","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_hero_article":{"":null,"anchor_id":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Despite living in a country with one of the highest rates of adolescent pregnancy in Latin America, many young Bolivians do not receive any type of sexuality education in their schools\u2014and some lack access to any formal education at all.\u00a0\u00a0Melanie Parra aspires to change that. At just 22, she has already traveled through half of her home country of Bolivia to deliver comprehensive sexuality education to young women and girls so that they can make informed decisions about contraception and complete their schooling. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\n\u201cI started working on these issues because when I was 16, I was suffering\u00a0abuse\u00a0from my boyfriend,\u201d said Parra, an engineering student and a volunteer for\u00a0<\/span>CIES<\/span><\/a>, a\u00a0F\u00f2s\u00a0Feminista\u00a0partner\u00a0organization that works throughout\u00a0Bolivia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\n\u201cI hadn\u2019t realized\u00a0[it was abuse]\u00a0until people from CIES came to my school and started talking about it. I became empowered and started volunteering because I also realized how important it was for all youth to have correct information and skills to start a sex life that brings satisfaction and not negative consequences. In addition, for us it is an enriching but also fun work because we meet many young women like us with whom we learn and have a good time simultaneously\u201d says\u00a0Parra\u00a0about her activities.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nBolivia has one of the highest adolescent pregnancy rates in the region\u00a0with 88 births for every 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 19, nearly twice as high as the average for the rest of the world. Indigenous and Afro-Bolivian women are more likely to have unwanted pregnancies and to be subjected to forced marriages or unions.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nThe\u00a0young women\u00a0who Parra volunteers with are part of\u00a0<\/span>T\u00fa\u00a0Decides<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>a network that CIES founded in collaboration with other young people in Bolivia\u00a0to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>promote sexual and reproductive rights and CSE to schools and communities. They use participatory methodologies that allow young people to learn through games, debates, and community activities.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nLike CIES, most F\u00f2s Feminista partner organizations include comprehensive sexuality education as a central part of their work throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Partner organizations support CSE in schools and other educational spaces through trainings for teachers, development of school curricula, and peer education with young volunteers like Melanie. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nAccording\u00a0<\/span>to UNESCO<\/span><\/a>, all\u00a0governments\u00a0in the region report having some CSE programs for adolescents and youth\u00a0in school. Nevertheless, the quality of those programs\u00a0is often very\u00a0low because they often focus only\u00a0on biological aspects of sexuality and do not recognize\u00a0the\u00a0difficulties that\u00a0young people may face when trying to prevent HIV and other STIs, unwanted pregnancies or gender-based violence.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\n\u201cThe Bolivian Constitution recognizes sexual and reproductive rights, which is\u00a0something\u00a0very advanced in the world. But that does not mean that the population can really exercise them, much less adolescents and young people. For this, an important first step is that they have\u00a0science based\u00a0CSE\u00a0with a human rights\u00a0perspective,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0<\/span>Adriana Mendoza<\/span><\/a>, another young woman who participated in the T\u00fa Decides Network and is now a member of the Board of\u00a0F\u00f2s\u00a0Feminista.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\n\u201cBringing CSE to schools allows adolescents to also reflect about their\u00a0lives as a whole, to\u00a0develop plans on what they want for their future\u00a0and what tools do they need to get where they want to\u00a0be,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Mendoza.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\n\nParra and Mendoza are two of the thousands of young volunteers who collaborate with F\u00f2s Feminista's partner organizations around the world. 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