Juelma Karine da Moeda Mendes

Juelma Karine da Moeda Mendes has over five years of experience in communication. Currently, Juelma Karine da Moeda Mendes is a public information officer for the United Nations Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau. After the death of her baby’s babysitter in 2015, she volunteered to support in communication, sensitization, and advocacy at two national NGOs that work to support the human rights of children, girls, and women. In her community, Juelma assists 56 teenage girls who ran away from early marriage, teaching them about human and children’s rights, hygiene, and early pregnancy. She also fights to guarantee them health assistance in private hospitals. Juelma is also a public relations specialist at the People’s Friendship University of Russia. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship(Africa), she plans to build a house to shelter women and girl victims of domestic violence, forced and early marriage, sexual abuse, and human rights violations, a first in Guinea-Bissau.