Impact stories

Laura Silveira is a 17-year-old student who lives in Brasilia, in the Midwest of Brazil. She was one of the participants of VLB5 in February this year and is now part of the LALA Storytelling team. The student is passionate about education and the arts. Laura has been engaged in Model UNs from an early

The number of times you can be surprised and smile during a conversation with alumni Laura Neves, 20, is proportional to the number of qualities she possesses. Born and raised in the countryside of São Paulo, Laura is responsible for creating our Opportunities Team, is a dancer, and was recently accepted at the University of

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

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

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

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

Participating in the Math Olympiads is a pretty impressive achievement, but Caio Lopes was not content enough with participating in the system. In fact, he and some of his friends saw flaws in how it worked, so they set out to create an Olympiad with a completely different structure that would benefit students more. “My

“I saw my father cry, and it was the first time I saw him cry, and then we lost our house and had to move suddenly, and then a few months later, I was rejected from every college I applied to, all in a really short period of time.” But Ernesto Nam turned these difficult