May 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - Nicaragua: Iowa City Press-Citizen : When one of the girls in her adolescent youth group asked for advice about dating and contraception, Juanita Limas knew she was getting through to the people in the small Nicaraguan village
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May 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - Nicaragua: Iowa City Press-Citizen : When one of the girls in her adolescent youth group asked for advice about dating and contraception, Juanita Limas knew she was getting through to the people in the small Nicaraguan village
When one of the girls in her adolescent youth group asked for advice about dating and contraception, Juanita Limas knew she was getting through to the people in the small Nicaraguan village
When one of the girls in her adolescent youth group asked for advice about dating and contraception, Juanita Limas knew she was getting through to the people in the small Nicaraguan village
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By Kristen Schorsch
Iowa City Press-Citizen
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When one of the girls in her adolescent youth group asked for advice about dating and contraception, Juanita Limas knew she was getting through to the people in the small Nicaraguan village.
She was the first Peace Corps volunteer for the village of 800 people, and sex was a taboo subject. Even the girl's mother came to talk to Limas.
"I think that, for me, was like a true moment because I thought, 'This girl is obviously talking to her mom about what we're doing in this group,' and her mother trusted me enough to ask me rather than ask a fellow Nicaraguan," said Limas, 33, a University of Iowa field examiner and an alumna who served in Nicaragua from 2000 to 2002. "That, for me, was one of my key moments."
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