Program: In First Person

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]