By Monica Moreno | Project Leader
Jassiel: Goal
CAPTA changed a lot of things in my life. It changed me a lot as a person and as well my character.
I had to change my character because I used to be very aggressive towards my family. I learned not to be anxious anymore while I speaking publicly. I’m not afraid of it anymore! Now, I can even speak in front of cameras.
Liz: Opportunity
It was a way of getting into the course and currently I am doing my internship in the hotel and it feels like it is an opportunity. Maybe I could start working from now on. It is still a new experience for me and it gives as well the chance to improve myself and to take advantage of the classes. The old Liz was disorganized but now I am less disorganized.
I met classmates who were more extroverted than me and it felt overwhelming. Now I speak more than I spoke before and its true, the new Liz is more serious and stops being too relax. But then again I matured a lot and I had a lot of positive changes. The new Liz hopes to continue learning and improving, I want to do the things I left behind, like pick up my studies again. I know that there is a better future and if I force myself a little bit more and if I keep on moving we’ll see how far I will get.
Shahaneth: Inspiration
The word that resumes my experience is inspiration. Why inspiration? Because I was a person who had no inspiration to do anything. To be honest, I never thought about what I want nor where I want to get and that’s why the engagement within CAPTA was a way to have dreams. It was like a tool and I told myself: This is the time!
I started noticing my goals when I started to think about what I want to reach and I started to inspire myself and I realized that I can go further and give more of me. Not just because I had my children or that I had to be at home and take care of them, I have to look after them and their future and because of all that I have to reach my goals, my dreams and I have to inspire myself and you have to notice that the things that are there, it doesn’t matter how challenging they could be, you have to fight to exhaust it! CAPTA was my stepping stone because if I wouldn’t had got to CAPTA I would be at home looking after my kids. I wanted to embrace the goals I have now – that I have a job, to have a better quality of life and to give this to my children. Not just the material things. I don’t want them to see their mother just as a housemaid if not it is a person who is taking care of them and who is not just sitting around and bringing the money home. I want to fight for what I need and what I want and they’ll see it in me and therefore they’ll do the same: to study, to graduate, to fulfill their dreams and reach their goals and to get to the point they want to reach.
“If we change a woman, We change a family. If we change a family, We change a community”
By Elisbeth Pinto | Communications
By Elisbeth Pinto | Communications
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