By Fondo de Mujeres del Sur | In close collaboration with the activists
We invite you to read this story featuring Margarita and Aché girls and adolescents from the Canindeyú department, in the heart of Paraguay.
Margarita learned to sing with her grandparents in the forest. When she was just 4 years old, she was kidnapped and sold as a domestic servant, a criada. She survived the Aché genocide* and criadazgo** and today she provides support in her community to girls and adolescents who seek to transform inequality conditions playing soccer.
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References:
* During Alfredo Stroessner's dictatorship, the Aché people were captured in the forest to be later sold into slavery. Read more here.
** Criadazgo is a common practice in Paraguay that refers to a form of child labour, where children are given to people of better economic standing to perform domestic tasks. Learn more in this site.
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