Children and adolescent communicators from twelve different
countries launch the Latin American and Caribbean Network LACVOX
San Salvador, September 9, 2008 - UNICEF convened more than 30
adolescent communicators from 12 Latin American and Caribbean
countries, in San Salvador, El Salvador. These young people,
representing their national communication networks, met to
exchange experiences and strengthen their capacity through the
creation of a Latin American Network of children and adolescent
communicators, which will be named LACVOX. "The network is an
opportunity to get to know each other’s cultures; I hope that it
will not only develop with the participation of adolescents from
urban areas, but that it will also include indigenous children
and adolescents as they know many things that people from the
city aren’t familiar with. We want to see boys and girls
involved in the mass media so that they can express their views
and demand the compliance of their rights, "said Carlos Eduardo
Mamani, a 17-year-old Aym