Resource type: Video

We travel today to Cuilapa, Guatemala. Edith lives with her three daughters, her two sisters, and her mother. Edith’s neighborhood of Canton Utzumazate is quiet and beautiful, but doesn’t have access to safe drinking water, electricity or paved roads. The families living there must buy safe water weekly to cook their food and practice safe […]

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 […]

A series of brief, powerful videos about life during the pandemic for some of the most vulnerable communities in Latin America. Women give voice to the challenges they and their children have faced during COVID-19.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]