The CAMY Fund transfers leadership of its initiative to address early unions to Elige Red de Jóvenes
February 6, 2024
Elige will focus its efforts on promoting strategies to make visible the experiences and processes of young people in the region related to early unions.
The Central America and Mexico Youth Fund (CAMY Fund) of the Seattle International Foundation (SIF) is pleased to announce that, as of June, it transferred the leadership of the Latin American and Caribbean Initiative to Prevent and Address Early Unions, created in 2017, to the organization Elige Red de Jóvenes por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos A.C. (Elige Network of Young People for Sexual and Reproductive Rights).
For the past six years, the SIF CAMY Fund has been committed to placing early unions on the regional philanthropy agenda through this innovative initiative. This initiative has resulted in the creation of a website, the establishment of partnerships with organizations with a global presence, and the organization of regional events for the exchange of experiences among young women activists, among other activities.
Fully aware that the issue should be addressed from the perspectives and interests of young people, with a focus on progressive autonomy and human rights, the CAMY Fund, starting in 2020, partnered with Elige Red de Jóvenes, a feminist youth civil society organization based in Mexico and a leading voice in the fight for sexual rights and political participation of young people in Latin America and the Caribbean.
From now on, Elige will focus its efforts on promoting advocacy strategies to position and raise awareness of the experiences and organizational processes of young people in the region related to early unions. The CAMY Fund is confident that Elige will successfully guide the initiative toward the recognition of the rights and progressive autonomy of Latin American and Caribbean adolescents and young people.
We invite you to visit the website unionestempranas.org and to use and share the resources found there aimed at young people, students, researchers and civil society organizations involved in the discussion, advocacy and awareness campaigns around early unions in Latin America and the Caribbean from a human rights approach.