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Video Interview: In First Person – 9

Today’s video of In First Person finds us in Medellin, Colombia. Joana is a single mother of six, who works in Medellin’s informal economy as a street peddler. Darcy is the grandmother and guardian of her two grandchildren: Juan and José Gabriel. Juan is in second grade and José Gabriel Is in fourth grade. The […]

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Video Interview: In First Person – 8

Gloria, her husband and children live in Gloria’s parents’ house in Guatemala City. Currently, only Gloria is able to work to provide food to her family. To learn more about how Gloria’s family is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, watch this week’s video. Alongside most of Latin America, Guatemala is being hit hard by the […]

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Video Interview: In First Person – 7

Mrs. Maritza Pfuño Diaz lives with her two sons and one daughter in San Juan de Lurigancho, the most populous district in Lima, Peru. Watch this week’s video to hear about how she is getting her family through the many challenges of the pandemic, including accessing distance learning with limited technology. Peru has employed a […]

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Video Interview: In First Person – 6

Nancy and her two children live in a small house in Medellín, Colombia. Because of the pandemic and their resulting lockdowns, Nancy can’t leave her home to go to work. A Chance In Life has sent urgent funds to offer food relief to families like Nancy’s in Medellín through the Congregation of Little Sisters of Redemption […]

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Video Interview: In First Person – 5

Equity for Children and A Chance in Life is continuing its efforts to produce, In First Person, a series of video testimonials that aim to voice the perils of the pandemic from the perspective of Latin American families living in poverty. Leidy and her three children live in a small house in a dangerous neighborhood […]

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Video Interview: In First Person – 4

Cochabamba, Bolivia: Marcela Suárez is a single mother living with her four children in a small rented room in the outskirts of Cochabamba. Before the pandemic, Marcela sold bottled water and apple juice on the streets of the local market. Watch this week’s En Primera Persona (In First Person) video to learn more about how […]

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Video Interview: In First Person – 3

Equity for Children partnered with A Chance in Life to produce a series of brief videos about life during the pandemic for the communities A Chance In Life supports across Latin America. “In First Person” is an audiovisual project that gives voice to current problems experienced by vulnerable families in five Latin American countries. The […]

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Video Interview: In First Person – Trailer

We are excited to announce that Equity For Children has partnered withA Chance In Life to produce a powerful audiovisual project about life during the pandemic for the communities A Chance In Life supports across Latin America. “In First Person” gives voice to current problems experienced by vulnerablefamilies in five Latin American countries. The 15 […]

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Video Interview: In First Person – 2

This video interview is great, meaningful, descriptive, hopeful and sad at the same time —hopeful because she exists to help, sad how much she and her work are needed— a great reflection on her underlying belief in the power of community. Video by Ana Minujin

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In First Person – 1

This initiative is part of a series of personal testimonies that give voice to families living in disadvantaged urban areas. Covid-19 does not discriminate by class or race. But it does strike poor households especially hard and presents unique problems. Equity for Children wants to hear the perspective of poorer families in Latin America, to […]

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