Category: Voice & participation

Roxana lives in the Nuevo San Salvador human settlement of the San Juan de Lurigancho district of Lima, Peru with her three children. Roxana’s children attend the Fe y Alegría School. Her two youngest children, Brisa and Fabián, are attending virtual classes in the morning using Roxana’s cell phone. It has been difficult for both […]

Mirtha is a single mother who lives in Lima, Peru with her young daughter, Brigid. Both of them live in a settlement called Sacred Valley that is located in San Juan de Lurigancho, the most populous district of the city. Before the pandemic, Brigid attended Fe y Alegria School No. 26. Since the school is […]

Angela’s two daughters used to attend the Veracruz Girl’s Home boarding school run by the Congregation of Sisters Little Apostles of Redemption in Bogota. Angela lives with her two daughters, her sister and her sister’s six-month-old baby girl. The quarantine has made it very difficult for Angela to make ends meet for her household, and […]

Today, we travel to Guatemala to speak with Sra. Lidia and Sra. Aura, who are weathering the pandemic with their families on farms in Planes de Sumpango. Before COVID-19, Sra. Lidia’s children and Sra. Aura’s grandchildren attended Mother Anna Vitiello school. Now that the school is temporarily closed, the children have returned home to the […]

Nuevo Horizonte is a human settlement on the northern coast of Peru outside the city of Nuevo Chimbote. In this new video of In First Person Jaime and Yuri give their tesmony on how they are working to keep their six children from falling behind in school without electricity or internet access. “Human settlements” in Peru refer to […]