POP Venezuela Biographies

She is known for her work in “Los Amigos de la Salle”, directing primary school children, since she was 15 years old. She has volunteered in the Central Hospital of Valencia for years helping patients and also had the opportunity to work alongside Father José María Rivolta Chávez for 14 years at “Hogares Crea de Venezuela”.

Verónica González is currently the Coordinator of POP Movement in Venezuela where she inspires and guides young people to help them catalyze their leadership potential and take action to tackle the climate challenge. She wants to be remembered as a proactive, empowered, enterprising, and fair woman.

She has been a member of the Model United Nations of the E.U. Colegio San Gabriel Arcángel (GAMUN) since 2018 and is the Staff Member and Academic Secretary of GAMUN, 2019/2020. She has received numerous awards including MD, UNEP Committee, theme “Thawing of the Arctic Circle”, CAMUN 2018; 1st Honorable Mention, NATO Committee, theme “Russian Presence in the Black Sea”, SACMUN 2019; Honorable Mention, Panel of Experts Committee, topic “The Legalization of Abortion”, SSORIMUN 2019; Verbal Mention, Panel of Experts Committee, topic “Stigmatization of Women”, LAFEMUN 2019; and, Ciudadana Verde, 2020. She is the Founding member of Movimiento POP Venezuela and a member of the POP Global team, representing the young Venezuelans.

“From an early age, I have been interested in issues where I can help and contribute to achieving a better world, especially the rights of not only humans, but also of nature and animals. My life’s purpose is to change the world and reach the hearts of people, improving their habits by being a positive leader. Thanks to the POP Movement, I have managed to meet many people from different cultures, ethnic groups, countries, and languages. Being able to learn and nurture myself through them has been most enriching. Each activity has given me knowledge, which I then impart to society. There is no better legacy than setting an example and never giving up, being a light to the world that acclaims our conscience and action. I, Gabriela Madrid González, have faith that every little action becomes gigantic and together we are more. It is never too late to start being a leader, and more so, when it comes to preserving our family: Mother Earth.”

Due to the political and economic crisis in his country, he had to move to a smaller school which allowed him to experience the social contrast in Venezuela and feel the reality that the vast majority of citizens live through. Thus, he began to volunteer as a teacher and discovered his passion for education. After his graduation, he started visiting orphanages to teach children English language, reading and literature, and mathematics, and helped in mobilizing resources for their maintenance. A member of the Red Cross, he has also led various activities in conjunction with community residents in order to restore the green and public spaces. At present, he continues to contribute towards the education of low-income children and young people in his city, and has been able to teach and take the performing arts to them in other cities as well. He believes that joining Movimiento POP Venezuela has been one of the best decisions of his life. He aims to finish his current degree and study political science.

“I never want to stop studying because the world requires people prepared to improve it.”

“I have always believed that sustainable development is the best alternative to carry out any human activity. We must develop as human beings acting with moderation, in a way that allows us to grow as people without compromising the resources of future generations. I joined MovimientoPOP Venezuela because I want to contribute, give, believe, and grow; to change a disrespectful and aggressive mentality with the environment. I like strategies based on sustainable development, and that is part of our objectives in the Movement. We advocate for the good health of our ecosystems, of the population, for the respect of human rights, for the integration of women into society, so that they take decisive and preponderant roles.”

“Instilling in people that nature is a fundamental part of our life is what motivates me to belong to Movimiento POP Venezuela. Mother Earth has rights that challenge the vision of extracting everything we need, understanding the planet beyond being our primary resource. I argue that we must live with the environment. To build alternative societies we need to change our relationship with the environment. We owe a lot of respect and care to our mother Earth.”

“I joined the POP Movement with the faith of growing as a person. Love for the planet is what I want to cultivate in my fellow men. I am a young man who constantly reaches out to others; and I want to reach out to our mother Earth, to rescue her from the damage she has suffered. Dreams are built from small ideas. My goal is that my voice and my words become actions. I wish to have the ability to educate and raise awareness in society, precisely to combat ignorance, and thus, to be able to protect the home that was given to us. Climate change exists, it is now, in the present time that we must work together, in favor of the planet.”

“I joined Movimiento POP Venezuela because Mother Earth is asking us for a change. She wants more sustainable human beings to inhabit it. I believe that by working hard and together we will make a difference. That is why, together with the members of the Movement, we create and grow day by day, to become that change that we want to see in the world. Together as a family to save our home, which has given us so much.”

“Not taking care of the environment is wasting the opportunity to do something for others, since an ecosystem is not made up of a single living organism but rather by diverse from animal plants and even a group of people who live in it and there is nothing more beautiful than helping another not only to acquire knowledge but to see how he achieves his goals thanks to the little push he has been given.”