Amanda Barrios, originally from Paraguay, a participant in the VLB4 developed in Portuguese, is 18 years old and has many skills, one of which is a passion for mathematics and for playful games such as Chess. This ability means a lot to Amanda. It has been present throughout her life because her father is a…
“Sand is not made up of a single grain. It is made up of several grains, which form something bigger. That’s how I see the LALA community.” Doris Rivas is a 16-year-old student from the city of Piura, Peru, who is currently part of the LALA Storytelling team, but her connection with this community began…
Renzo Ulloa, from Otuzco, a city in the North of Peru, moved to Lima in 2017 to attend the Presidente del Perú High School, where he studied until 2019. In the last 2 years in that school, he took the IB (International Baccalaureate), and he realized what he enjoyed was social impact. One year after…
Born in Mendoza (Argentina), the 18 y/o Melina Santiago is the new Alumni Coordinator for Salesforce at LALA. She studies Social Entrepreneurship at Lynn University in the United States and found out about LALA in 2020 when her university sent her a list of internships. LALA caught her attention- first, because it was the only…
Juana Villamil is a 17-year-old girl from Cali, Colombia. She believes that “an ideal world is one in which diversity is visible, and people have the opportunity to show the light that is within them. That’s what LALA does.” Juana carries that light with her in her search for a more accessible and sustainable diet…
In June 2019, Idia Irele joined LALA as an Inaugural Educator. Now, after working on the curriculum for the Academy and encouraging DEIA goals (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access) in the organization, Idia was selected by the United States government for a diplomacy fellowship and is leaving the organization in May. Idia was born in…
Being the founder of two of the best-known free foreign language teaching organizations in the country —Globalizando and Wanderlust—, Leonardo Neto is a familiar face to many education activists in Brazil. In his trajectory, he has been engaged with several projects that have education as their primary focus, as it is the main cause he…
Alejandra’s interest in innovative education models grew from her involvement in WAWA Laptop Peru—a family affair for her, a startup shattering boundaries in access to education for Peru. The idea for WAWA was born in 2015 when Alejandra’s dad Javier Carrasco, an IT Engineer, was traveling around rural Peru for a work assignment. He saw…
Lucas, CLB alumni, shares more about his post-Bootcamp experience below. Thanks to LALA, I was able to meet the founders of Low Carbon City, a company that fosters projects that confront climate change and other environmental issues. We got in touch during the Bootcamp, and I had the opportunity to talk about the urban forestry…
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