Laetitia Deweer - Breathe In Joy - Human Rights Advocate, Founder of CEPIA (Culture, Education and Psychology for Infants and Adolescents)

Laetitia Deweer is the founder and development director of CEPIA
(Culture, Education and Psychology for Infants and Adolescents),
an internationally recognized, award-winning nonprofit that
serves over 1000 at-risk children, teenagers, their families and
adults in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. CEPIA provides a wide array of
education programs, psychological, legal and medical care as well
as recreational activities, sports and arts and has been
instrumental in feeding, clothing and providing mental health
care to many who lost jobs and suffered hunger during the
pandemic. In recognition of her decades of extraordinary work in
rural Central America, The Aspen Institute invited Laetitia to be
a fellow of its Central America Leadership Initiative. Each July,
she joins hundreds of the world's leading thinkers to brainstorm
ways to solve the world's most pressing crises. Born in Belgium,
Laetitia speaks  Spanish, English, French and Dutch and
participated in social projects in Guatemala and Mexico as a
university student. At 23, she moved to Costa Rica, deeply
immersing herself as a volunteer with PANI (government child
protection agency in Costa Rica). Ever since, she has dedicated
her life to solving the problems of extreme poverty and human
distress. With a Masters in Clinical Psychology and Educational
Sciences with emphasis on Family Education, Laetitia also works
with trauma patients as a private EMDR (Eye Movement
Desensitization and Reprocessing), transpersonal psychotherapist,
and transformational breath work facilitator. To balance the
intensity of her work life, she loves surfing, yoga and
meditation. 



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