Send Baru Students to Training School

Johany is 18 years old. She was borned in Baru, where she lives with her mother and her little brother who is 8.

Her mother has always been her inspiration. She says she remembers that when she was a child, she imitated her in everything she did: her way of speaking, sitting and even dressing.

“She is my heroine, my role model”, Johany says, “as we have always been the three of us against the world and nothing has stopped us. The most difficult thing for me, was when she accepted a job as a housekeeper in a hotel in the Rosario Islands, where she has to sleep and can only come home for 1 or 2 days a week, when she is resting".

Because of that, Johany is now in charge of her brother. Every day is a challenge for her: she weaks up at 5:00 am to prepare her brother for school, makes breakfast and takes him to class. Then, she gets ready and go to classes in the community of Santa Ana, where she studies Accommodation Service.

After classes, Johany returns to Baru, picks up her brother at school, prepares lunch and help him with his homework, which sometimes is difficult, she says, as “he doesn`t want to work”.

Johany feels that she can contribute much more to her family and that is why she works hard. "I can`t stay still, so I applied for a project in my community and I won a scholarship to study English for three years. I'm sure that everything I'm doing, will help me find a good job, not only as a housekeeper, but as a supervisor or even the head of rooms" Johany points out enthusiastically.

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