July 2012
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The 2012 Olympics kick off in just two days and while the elite athletes of the world get ready to take center stage, take a look at another one of the profile videos featured in Through Her Eyes Project. In this profile video you’ll meet a young surfer from Ecuador named Cinthia Layana who shares why she believes support from your family is such a crucial element to...
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Jackelin Ortega Vivanco de Cabrera lives in the southern Ecuadorian city of Loja and she comes from a long line of basketball players. Her mother played on the Ecuadorian National team and participated in the country’s first international women’s game in 1964. And in the city Loja, Ecuador basketball is King…or Queen, as the case may be. Jackelin has passed on the love...
WatchSEVEN DAYS Katya Granja practices tae kwon do in the city of Guaranda: “I trained before but not with the same will as now. Because before, my dad didn’t let me. But now with the way of thinking of my parents and all, we feel more sure of ourselves and better to train with desire.” Watch Katya’s profile video to see why she thinks including sports in the lives of women and...
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Our video profile today is of a young athlete named María Fernanda Batallas who lives in the Northern coastal region of Ecuador in the province of Esmereldas. The region claims one of the nation’s highest levels of underdevelopment, leading to a lack of funding for many public projects, including sports. But the region also produces some of Ecuador’s fastest and strongest...
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And the countdown continues…
Today’s video profile is of Gabriela Chalá. Gabriela is a runner and lives in Cuenca, Ecuador, a city known for a long history of producing and training the country’s fastest and best runners and fast walkers. She says she plays sports for many reasons, but chief among them: “it has taught me to be a better person.” As a young woman growing up with...
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With just ten days left before the 2012 Olympic Games kick off in London, we are jumping back into our video profile countdown with the story of Ketty Loja. Ketty is a cycling and triathlon coach in the southern Ecuadorian city of Loja. But before she became a coach, she was an athlete. In her early days of cycling and training she says she felt a lack of support from everyone around her,...
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Lucy Espinoza is a basketball referee in Ecuador and she is the focus of today’s countdown video.
She has been calling games since 1992. And in the beginning of her career, Lucy was the only female basketball referee in Ecuador.
She faced many challenges to get where she is today: an international referee.
“In the beginning, people did not think a woman could run a basketball game....
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Lilia Llulluna Morales is the star of today’s countdown video. She lives in the jungle town of Tena in the region of Ecuador known as the Oriente. It is a region known for its oil rich resources and for an intense heat that hangs in the air for much of the year. Lilia is up and out to the track before the sun rises most days to get her work out in before the heat of the day sets in:...
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Karina Diaz is the woman at the center of today’s video countdown. A provincial and national champion in shot put in Ecuador, her advice to other women and girls is simple: believe in your self, believe in grand expectations and believe that there is a place for you on the track, on the field, in the pool and in the arena.
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Here is yesterday’s countdown video profile: Marta Succety. Take a trip around the track with her and find out why she thinks including sports in the lives of women and girls is so important.
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And our countdown continues to the Olympic Games in London! Check out today’s video profile which features bodyboarder, Iliana Crow De Aguirre. She and her husband, a surfer, have passed on their love of the waves and sport to their five children: “…friends of my daughter see me. They see her. It is motivating. The thing to see is this is something natural. Every sports...
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Count down to the start of the Olympic games with us today with our video profile of Katya Granja. Katya practices tae kwon do. When Katya first joined her local team, her father wouldn’t let her practice. But today, he does. And with that support she has gone on to train harder and stronger and put more of herself into the sport, helping her provincial team take the national title...
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Today’s video profile takes us to the southern Ecuadorian city of Loja. On a cement court here, Kerly Macas and Jessica Agüinsaca have recruited friends to play basketball with them. Their video profile gives you a quick glimpse of what they think about sports and why they play: “With sports you lead a healthier life. Happier. And we can be something more.”
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Today’s video profile takes us around the track, the velodrome to be more specific, on two wheels and the power of one body. Ana Padilla is the one behind the power. She is a cyclist from Quito, Ecuador. Why does she like to race: “I like the track because it is very fast. I feel like I am creating my own speed. I’m not relying on anyone else.”
But as with many...
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Hit the sun and surf in today’s video profile of surfer Andrea Vinueza. Andrea grew up in family full of boys. And when they hit the beach with their boards she did too. From the start she knew she liked it, but she also knew she had something to prove: “Many years ago, in our society, here in Ecuador, it was thought that women couldn’t surf. That they couldn’t stand because they didn’t...
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As we continue to countdown the days until the Olympic Games open in London, take a peek at this video profile of Mayra Sucuzhañay who practices tae kwon do. She says she loves to practice the sport because it allows her to develop both physically and intellectually. And when she trains, she puts every bit of her self into the sport and into the moment.
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Today’s profile video features girls who participate in the Su Cambio por El Cambio/Your Change for The Change program in Quito, Ecuador. Take a listen and see how sport has changed the lives of these young girls who come from impoverished homes. Some of the children who participate in the sports and school program walk up to two hours to arrive at the school each day. Father Sereno...
