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1. Youth awareness events in 50 countries and across the U.S.
2. Major PeerCorps training sessions for you and your friends.
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Costa Rica
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Posted by: host 12/15/2005
Costa Rica is truly a wonderful country with a very special personality all of its own in Central America. With a large group of volunteer youth, I canvassed the neighborhoods, schools, malls, and spoke to students at the University of Costa Rica in San Pedro and at the Pan American University in San Jose. When I asked Giovanni- a 20 year old- volunteer, what he liked most about his country, he looked at me and smiled and said, "We have no army." It struck me that that was what he was proud of. His second answer was, we love and respect our rain forest. I thought both answers were very unique and I hoped said a lot about the young people of Costa Rica.

At night a slew of university students guided me though the streets and parks of the capitol city, San Jose. I talked with many prostitutes, transvestites("Travesties") and drug dealers. In every case, these young people who are most at risk for HIV wanted to hear all the information about the sexual and needle transfers of HIV. Today, Monday December 12th, I am visiting two universities, where end of the year examinations are taking place. I will be doing walks to speak to groups of young people.
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