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LUNDÚ: Afro-Peruvian Youths Lead
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Youth including founder, Monica Carillo, at the LUNDÚ community center
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Founded in 2001 by 21-year-old Monica Carrillo, Center for Afro-Peruvian Studies and Empowerment (Centro de Estudios y Promocion Afro-Peruano or LUNDÚ) is an anti-sexism, anti-racism, anti-homophobia organization focused on empowering a new generation of Afro-Peruvian leaders. LUNDÚ is the only group working on issues of gender, sexuality, and human rights in Afro-descendent communities in Peru. These communities face pervasive discrimination, and young people receive little information on sexuality and reproductive health.
With IWHC’s support, LUNDÚ is constructing a community center, the Center on Sexual and Reproductive Rights, for youth in the district of El Carmen. El Carmen is located in Peru's Ica province—the site of a growing sex tourism industry and the province with the second-highest rate of HIV/AIDS prevalence in Peru. The Center will offer local youth a permanent space for discussing and learning about their rights and health and will also house a permanent exhibition about Afro-Peruvian history. In addition to its work developing a permanent community center, LUNDÚ has trained peer educators in El Carmen to share vital information on sexual and reproductive health to Afro-Peruvian boys and girls using an approach that is sensitive to Afro-Peruvian culture, gender differences and respects human rights.
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Page last updated 4/23/08.
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