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programs such as TDN that can improve your well being and your community every step of the way.” – La-Kenia, BOLD Initiative intern.

Listen to this story! La-Kenia is a 17-year-old half Puerto Rican, half Trinidadian teenager from Brownsville, raised by a single mother in one of New York City’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. “My community is disconnected and change is desperately needed,” says the 17 year old; “in my community, young people are involved in drugs, alcohol, and gangs. Drugs are the gateway to risky actions.” La-Kenia has a passion for animals and dancing. Her dream is to become a veterinarian. In her junior year in high school, she participated in one of Transdiaspora Network’s HIV Prevention and Health Promotion workshops at her local high school in Sheepshead Bay. The experience touched her so deeply, she decided to join TDN’s BOLD Initiative internship program, “to enlighten and bring awareness to the minds of all ages,” as she stated in her internship application.

Before her involvement with TDN, La-Kenia was reserved and didn’t feel comfortable engaging with people she didn’t know. La-Kenia was misinformed about HIV/AIDS and methods of prevention. As one of our interns, La-Kenia has expanded her knowledge about herself and HIV prevention, and has challenged the myths and misconceptions about the disease among her peers. With her new-found confidence and person-to-person skills, she has volunteered to lead workshops in her high school in our next programming cycle, using TDN’s Social Photography Workshop model. She has done outreach in the community and has engaged local youth to participate in our programs. She has also been invited to apply to be a 2014 National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day Youth Ambassador by Advocates for Youth, a national organization based in Washington D.C. Next year, she plans to go to college to become a vet.

La-Kenia is the perfect example of how our organization’s communication philosophy and prevention activities have a measurable impact in the lives of inner-city youth. Along with another BOLD intern, she has committed to sell candy in her local community to help raise money for TDN’s Year-End fundraising campaign. Please join these passionate teens and make a contribution today! Donations support our workshops, our BOLD Initiative Fund, and help teenagers like La-Kenia become positive role models in their communities and pursue their dreams. Individual donations like yours are the backbone of our operations…$5, $10, $20 or $100, every gift makes a difference. Please give generously.

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“This experience connects with me because I know there are young people like myself who want to learn and prevent HIV. Teens are the future so by doing community outreach I feel I am paving the way for others.” – La-Kenia, BOLD Initiaitve intern

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