Our brave children battle every day against very serious health problems. They give us strength and an appetite for life. It is now time to pay back some of what we receive from them. María Elena Curbelo Morales was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1945. She works as a pediatric doctor in the very poorest […]
My life is to work so that people will not be afraid to have hope. Dora Paiva has worked on many different projects; constructing houses, making rag dolls, planting trees and organizing weaving workshops to make artisan products by hand and on the loom using rustic wool. For decades, she has been working on activities […]
I feel the misfortune of others, the suffering of poor people in my own heart. I cannot help all of humanity but I can help the people near to me. Her life changed with the Chilean state coup against Salvador Allende, in 1973. At that time, Belela Herrera, born in Uruguay and mother of five […]
Very soon, I understood that I could not be happy being far away from the people who were suffering. For me, the most important thing is being near the humblest people in my country. As a Dominican nun, Beatriz Benzano knew the suffering of the marginalized populations of Montevideo, Buenos Aires and Santiago. She left […]
