Visibility For Youth Advocates
YAA enlisted and raised visibility for representatives on over 30 countries. Most of those have proceeded to be the most visible activists on HIV/AIDS in their countries.
- Yinka Jegede-Ekpe - Yinka, YAA's Nigeria Representative, was interviewed by YAA and Advocacy Project in 2001. Yinka proceeded to win the Reebok Human Rights award for her work.
- Kabati Ishaya, also interviewed by YAA/Advocacynet in 2001, was featured in the film We will Not Die Like Dogs
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Famous quotes containing the words visibility, youth and/or advocates:
“My children have taught me things. Things I thought I knew. The most profound wisdom they have given me is a respect for human vulnerability. I have known that people are resilient, but I didn’t appreciate how fragile they are. Until children learn to hide their feelings, you read them in their faces, gestures, and postures. The sheer visibility of shyness, pain, and rejection let me recognize and remember them.”
—Shirley Nelson Garner (20th century)
“Our Indian said that he was a doctor, and could tell me some medicinal use for every plant I could show him ... proving himself as good as his word. According to his account, he had acquired such knowledge in his youth from a wise old Indian with whom he associated, and he lamented that the present generation of Indians “had lost a great deal.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)