Ivonne Elena Miranda
Graduated Fellow of the Youth Leadership in Sexual and Reproductive Health (GOJoven) Program (2009)

I’ve worked for nearly 6 years in a comprehensive adolescent clinic providing family planning and HIV/AIDS counseling, explaining the correct use of contraceptive methods in a youth-friendly manner. Currently, I’m the lead trainer for a cohort of 20 young SRHR leaders (ages 15-27) in the Department of Colon, Honduras, to create the Colon Youth SRHR Platform, which will be the fourth Youth Platform created under the auspices of GOJoven Honduras Association since 2015.
My passion for family planning is fueled by the continuously high rates of adolescent pregnancy in the Department of Colon, Honduras, where I live. In 2012, according to the National Secretary of Health, it was reported that the adolescent pregnancies in Colon alone made up 31% of the national total.
In the future, I would like to continue training young people in family planning issues, advising them about their sexual and reproductive rights. An empowered and informed young person is guaranteed to be more committed to being a change agent for him/herself and others.
I would expand the team-based, community Leadership Action Plans which the young people I’m training in Colon, Honduras, designed and will start implementing in different municipalities as the practicum component of their SRHR leadership training. This support would help the Action Plans reach a greater number of adolescents & youth with family planning information, increasing their knowledge and interest in their own reproductive lives & choices and those of their peers.


