"Na LALA, encontrei muita humanidade, (...) São pessoas que compartilham sua vulnerabilidade com você"
The 20 years old Yasmin Victoria Campos Fernandez from Lima, Peru, is LALA’s Alumni Coordinator for Operations. She studies Social Psychology at Universidad Tecnológica del Perú (UTP) and loves working in Education because it is the basis upon which everything is built. Furthermore, she is currently working at LALA in a critical role within the community.
Yasmin loves working for quality education – this motivates her to keep working after waking up every morning. Providing opportunities to young people that do not have access to the same opportunities or are afraid of leaving their comfort zone, suffer from impostor syndrome, etc., these are themes that led Yasmin to create the project “Latin American Community of Young Leaders” (LaComunidad), where she works with over 50 people from different parts of Latin America. In this project, youth receive different tools so they can develop different skills to assist them in the present as well as in the future.
At LALA, Yasmin works on different projects, but the most important one for her was the creation of Virtual Community Leaders. She identifies herself with this project “because they (groups of young leaders) were created from scratch.” Despite the fact that the idea of keeping the whole LALA community active online was crazy, Yasmin found the perfect solution in creating online servers such as discord and on slack, to which the students are now connected. Creating these servers was only possible due to the help of 5 young people from different countries, both from virtual and in-person bootcamps, who lead the engagement initiatives within the LALA community. “I’m so proud not of what I was able to achieve, but because with it, the virtual community leaders were able to develop themselves.”
On the other hand, Yasmin says that one of her favorite aspects of LALA bootcamp was being able to connect with her own story. Since she heard about LALA, Yasmin has been getting involved with different initiatives that help her improve her skills and acquire more knowledge and use it in what she aspires to achieve. On the other hand, after all these months in which she has been engaged within the community, Yasmin aspires to a great future for the organization: “I see LALA in one or two years, or maybe even five, having a great impact and proving more to its student network, because, in so little time, LALA has created different initiatives through which it offers the best to its students.”
Yasmin Campos is one of our brilliant students doing extraordinary work to improve her community, mostly through education. Her work in leadership teaching has had an impact on many Latin American students through the volunteering she has been doing. I can assure you that Yasmin is one of the many youngsters that has been working to achieve her dream of having a quality education, both in her home country and in Latin America! That is why in LALA, we are pleased to have the opportunity of telling her story, and we hope to keep following her growth!
Essas histórias são escritas e editadas pela Equipe de Narração de Histórias, que é liderada por ex-alunos que coleta histórias com o objetivo de reconhecer e celebrar o maravilhoso trabalho que voluntários, funcionários e ex-alunos fazem para a LALA e também mostrar como a organização impactou suas vidas.
