By Elio Villaseñor G.
Director General of Citizen Initiative
for the Promotion of a Culture of Dialogue, AC
“Traveler, there is no path, the path is made by walking.“
— Joan Manuel Serrat, Songs
The Voices and Agents training program begins, a Youth Advocacy and Action Laboratory based on territorial work in the municipalities of Iztapalapa, Cuauhtémoc and Ecatepec.
This process stems from a simple but powerful conviction: reflection only makes sense when it becomes action.
Therefore, more than a course, it is a living space where young people can understand their reality, name it and begin to transform it from what they experience every day.
Throughout this experience, young people will learn to identify problems, build solutions, and engage in dialogue—from an active position—with actors in power.
It's not just about participating, but about recognizing oneself as a protagonist, as a person capable of influencing the decisions that impact one's community.
From their own territories, young people will promote concrete actions to generate real changes, strengthening their capacity for organization, collaboration and leadership.
Course objective
Strengthening the capacity of young people to lead the transformation of their territories, moving from grassroots activism towards strategic influence, capable of generating sustainable changes, with autonomy and collective sense.
Training path
A. Roots
B. Identity, community and leadership from the neighborhood: recognizing what hurts, but also what inspires and mobilizes.
C. Land
D. Reading the reality and local politics: mapping actors, power relations and building strategic alliances.
E. Tools
F. Design of advocacy strategies, effective communication and resource procurement to promote real projects.
G. Projection
Sustainability of actions, monitoring of results and training of trainers to multiply the impact in other territories.
More than transmitting knowledge, this laboratory seeks to trigger collective processes: that young people not only learn, but also build together, organize themselves and recognize themselves as part of a community with a voice and capacity for action.
The goal is clear: to train young people who not only participate, but become protagonists of their own agenda, and multipliers who accompany others on that same path.
In the end, Voces y Agentes is not just a training space; it is an invitation to look at the territory with different eyes: not as a place that limits, but as the starting point for transformation.
Every story, every neighborhood, and every experience that young people bring with them is a seed of change.
This laboratory seeks precisely that: for those seeds to find soil, community, and direction to grow.
Because when a young person recognizes themselves as the subject of their own story, they stop waiting for things to change and begin to transform them.
And when that process becomes collective, change ceases to be a possibility and becomes a shared reality.
Today begins a journey—a journey that is not predetermined—where voice becomes action, reflection becomes proposal, and territory becomes a space of hope.
May this be the beginning of many agendas built from the ground up, with dignity and strength; with the conviction that young people are not the future: they are the present that is already walking and transforming its reality.