I invited Liz and Jenna to come help with activities in the morning and they arrived Friday night. We got up early Saturday morning and headed to the location for the event. We got stuff set up and at 8:30 when we were supossed to start there weren't any participants. That was not too surprising, events rarely start on time in Paraguay, So we waited, continued with set-up and figured we'd start when the mayor arrived. By 9:00 the mayor was present, but there still weren't many participants. Not even the candidates for Youth Secretary were present. Eventually they arrived, but only to finalize their campaigns, not to actually participate in the needs assessments activities that we were doing.
While people debated over the big vote outside, we were deciding what to do inside. Eventually we started the activities with the few people who were there and talked about problems affecting youth in Coronel Oviedo. Then we ate lunch and headed over to the gym where the election would take place.
The election was a huge success. There were more than 4000 people registered to vote and about 1000 participated in the election. A terna, group of three, was elected and will be presented as candidates to the mayor for Youth Secretary. Unfortunately I don't know any of the candidates, so I have no idea how well they'd do with the new job, I guess I'll find out soon enough.
Hopefully next year they will have better success with both parts of the event.
Brochure for the Forum
Meeting with the Candidates
Ivan, exhausted from entering all the info in the computer
Setting up
Needs Assessment
Hard-working Parliament members
Voting
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