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	Ursula Carrascal Vizarreta


Title and Organization:		Coordinadora de Red para América Latina y el Caribe, Fundación Internacional de Jóvenes Profesionales - IYPF
Gender and Age:		Female, 30
Location:		Lima, Lima
Country of Residence:		Peru
Country of Birth:		Peru
Nationalities:		Peruvian
Citizenships:		Peru
Languages:		English , Spanish , Italian



Website:		http://www.iypf.org
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About Me

Ursula is a young professional involved in social and cultural activities since she was 9. As a journalist she writes and work giving information to people, especially young, and the basic tools to improve their lives and livelihoods.

Why fight? For her, everyone has a white book, one that we need write with our actions. She wishes that hers it be full of positive moments that have helped to reduce poverty and the suffering not only of human also nature.

Living in a developing country, she knows the meaning of discrimination, corruption, and poverty. Almost, she has not been a poor person; she has been in direct contact with the communities and facing the same problems because system. Being and working with the society, its young people, its children and local leaders she feel each day she grows as human. “To speak about poverty, we need touch it and to feel the hunger, those that fight in name of the problem and don’t know which is its really face, they wouldn’t get the cause of it”, Ursula said.

The contact of Ursula with different leaders around the world, has allowed she can understand better her knowledge about how to work in synergic and thinking globally but acting locally. Thanks her activism in environmental and human rights Ursula has learned to relate the external contexts with the reality of our towns.

She can’t denied what important is be volunteer to value each moment we do for a project and cause. “We fight because love, because we are dreamers”. Almost she won the International Youth Ecology Prize in 2000, Ursula believes she needs do much more in environment. For her, people now are destroying the last chance to keep in the Earth. That is because she is Vice President of VIDA (a non profit environmental institution), and decided to enjoy International Young Professional Foundation from 2003, where she is Network & Program Leader, Latin America & The Caribbean.

About YES, Ursula was the YES Peru national coordinator from 2002 to 2004, where actually she is an adviser. Now she works regionally whit YES Campaign being the Media and Project Coordinator of YES Latin America. “YES is more than a big network, it is a family working against poverty and helping in make MDGs a reality”. Now Ursula is also helping with edition of the YES Global on line newsletter.

Ursula is the coordinator and Huella Emprendedora Project, a proposal that is being worked between YES Latin America and IYPF and she is a Master Student of Gender, Policy and Society.

Her passion is dancing, then she is studying modern dance and showing this art to poor communities! Ursula wants help people trough dancing, empowering especially women and young people. "Trough music and our bodies we can tell words than with our own voices we normally cant", she said.

"We have many things to do, many dreams to become a reality... I do it is huge challenge make that possible, but is our goal. Fight againts poverty, hunger, corruption, gender inequaty, terrorism, violance.. stop the cry of our children.. like the ones living in Africa in worst conditions or in our places like India, Iraq, Peru, China... even developed nations have their own problems. No one is saved of the destruction and the people ambition. Just is to see the way to put all the pieces together... I would like you see the work made by institutions like RAFT, then you will see how using ITC we can share about how improve African life styles trough renewable energy.... go ahead, learn about this experience and the other hundred that we have in Takingit Global... go ahead.. the planet is waiting for Actions!!, were Ursula words...

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