Model United Nations reaches the under-served students in Venezuela
One of the basic premises of Model United Nations conferences is to provide students with a forum to hone skills in diplomacy, negotiation, critical thinking, compromise, public speaking, writing, and research. In Caracas, the Venezuelan-American Friendship Association (AVAA Spanish acronym) has coordinated the AVAAMUN conference for the past3 years to offer a platform that aims to promote education and integral development of underprivileged youth with middle or low income in order to help them develop a series of components that targets the transformation of their values associated with professional and personal progress and become assertive contributors to the development of democratic values and promoters of innovation, entrepreneurship, diversity, empowerment and self-sustainable practices within Venezuelan society. This years 3rd Edition of AVAAMUN was led by the student representative of Embajadores Comunitarios a nonprofit NGO whose purpose is to implement youth empowerment programs aimed at adolescents living in exclusion contexts in order to improve beliefs about their own value as well as their ability to change their lives and its surroundings. The Ambassadors of Argentina and France were present to give opening remarks, as was Tamara Adrian the only transgender representative in the Venezuelan National Assembly to partake in the event. AVAAMUN once more provided a space for these underserved students to practice their public speaking and negotiation skills and expand their leadership and citizenship values.