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SERES featured in the April edition of Guatemala’s English-language magazine, Revue!
“In the small pueblo of Chimaltenango a group of young people from across Guatemala and El Salvador gathers for a four-day youth leadership congress, organized by the NGO SERES.
In a scene that could be mistaken for an acrobatics class, the discuss how in teams of six they can hold a group pose with only eight hands and three feet touching the ground. There is laughter and high spirits as one by one each human pyramid comes crashing down. But, despite the jovial atmosphere, there is a reason why these young people are here today: each one of them is concerned about environmental issues that are devastating their communities and wants to help put a stop to them.
Aged between 15 and 25, these young adults have come together to discuss the problems that their hometowns face, create ideas to tackle them and draw up detailed action plans, which will then be presented to their communities with the hope of generating enough support to bring their proposals to fruition…”[more]
