ASOUSA Storytellers- Report

REPORT ASOUSA

STORYTELLERS PRESENTED BY YOUTH COLOMBIAN LEADERS FOUNDATION CAROLINA CABEZAS DIRECTOR YCLF YAP-ILVP-OF

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LEADERS AND PARTICIPANTS CONVOCATORY

The initiative proposed by Youth Colombian Leaders Foundation, ASOUSA STORYTELLERS aimed to create virtual meeting space, through Facebook where alumni of the different programs sponsored by the United States Embassy in Colombia, will share experiences, knowledge, and opinions through virtual participation with the intention of reconnecting and positioning ASOUSA as the interaction channel for all Alumni in Colombia.

This proposal had 4 approaches to energize the network and promote the participation of the alumni in the ASOUSA network. Youth Colombian Leaders Foundation opened a convocatory where alumni from the different programs were invited to participate in this initiative, using social networks.

An initial meeting was held to share the guidelines and scope of the proposal as well as the execution times.

A core team of leaders was consolidated to shape Storytellers, this team identified potential alumni to participate in the facebook live sessions and structured the interviews in the 4 proposed categories: VOICES OF EXCHANGES, PANDEMIC IMPACT, MENTOR TALKS, and leaders for the I AM ASOUSA Videos. The events were created on the ASOUSA FB page and shared through Whatsapp and email to the alumni network in Colombia.

Certifications were given to all the participants as moderators (presenters) of the FB live sessions and the guest who shared their stories.

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ASOUSA STORYTELLERS

TEAM

María Teresa Calvano YAP

Juan David Cardona YAP

Yuliana Rojas YAP

Jesus David Moreno MLK

Valentina Quiroz ACCESS

Heider Lacera MLK

THANK YOU!

Jesus Ripoll YAP

Anderson Cortés MLK- SUSI

Jessica H. Cabezas MLK

Efigenia Espitaleta MLK

Ayde Samira Andrade MLK

Carolina Cabezas YAP-IVLP-OF

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MODERATORS INVITED

Jefferson Tenorio MLK - YAP

Cristian Salazar YAP

The ASOUSA Storytellers team was formed with alumni from the Youth Ambassadors, Martin Luther King, Access and IVLP programs, where its main objective was to extend invitations to participate in the sessions. These invitations were shared with the 9 Binational Centers asking them to identify speakers for the 3 categories and also some participants for the videos. 200 ASOUSA kits with promotional material (kits with: tulas, t-shirts, caps, thermoses, agendas, and pins) were delivered around Colombia, for the alumni who would participate in the interviews and the videos "I am ASOUSA".

Francisco Cuesta SUSI

In order to involve more alumni, 3 accepted the invitation and supported the moderation of the Facebook live sessions, resulting in 20 sessions, with 24 alumni sharing their stories and 17 I am ASOUSA videos published, with about 70 alumni who shared their greetings, stories of the programs and identifying themselves as ASOUSA members, under the slogan I am ASOUSA and you?

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STORYTELLERS 24 alumni participated in the Facebook live sessions.

The guest came from programs like Youth Ambassadors, Martin Luther King, IVLP, YLAI, Opportunity Fund, Access, CHOP, Expanding Diversity in Higher Education, CCIP, Fortune, and AWE. RACHEL WILSON, Alumni Coordinator, was also invited to the sessions, sharing information about the current program convocatories for 2022 and general requierements

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STORYTELLERS

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VIDEOS I AM ASOUSA Around 70 alumni from different cities and programs participate in the videos I AM ASOUSA, sharing their stories, sending regards to the alumni community, the participants were selected and the videos were editated and posted on the ASOUSA facebook page. All the videos and sessions are found in the facebook video gallery https://www.facebook.com/exbecarioscolombianos

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STATISTICS FACEBOOK PAGE INSIGHTS 20 events held during the execution of Storytellers. The facebook page shows insights from 3,397 people reached, around 221 people responses were given during the events, the page also gained 17 new followers in the last month.

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PROYECT LED BY

YOUTH COLOMBIAN LEADERS FOUNDATION has developed this initiative framed in three approaches: Gender Equality Approach; seeking the balance of participation between men and women in their interventions and spaces.

Multidisciplinary Approach; promoting the inclusion of different participants with academic disciplines or professional specializations in the same field, as well as participants from different programs of the U.S. Embassy in Colombia.

Human Rights Approach; we consider our participants and beneficiaries as rights holders, this is why we promote Human Rights standards and principles derived from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments including all civil, cultural, economic, political, and social rights, and the right to development.

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