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Andrea Gonzalez Duarte Van Der Leeuw was born in Bogotá, adopted as a baby and raised in the Netherlands.
After finishing her degree in social work at Hanze University in the Netherlands, Andrea traveled the world then moved to Medellin, Colombia a few years later.
Upon her return to Colombia, she saw a striking difference in women’s role in society. The women she saw were working, creating, providing, and fighting - and then there is such a huge gap between the sexes?
This does not fit into our modern times and she started the foundation, Mi Barrio Mi Sueno, knowing right away that she wanted to work for equality, especially for women and children, because they have a right to equal and fair opportunities and treatment, like everybody else.
Andrea feels very strongly about this subject because this inequality is the reason behind her adoption. Now she is committed to changing the unequal conditions and working together for a fairer world.
The Colombia News Brief is reported this week by journalist Grace Brennan,
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510: Cryptolombia? Digital currencies in Colombia and Latin America
509: Colombia: A Wound that Never Heals
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507: Explaining Nearshoring in Medellin, Colombia
506: The Amazon Blackwater Expedition
505: Photographing the Arahuacas of the Sierra Nevada
504: Colombia's violence from two perspectives
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502: Zombies, Magicians, Climate Saviours? Inside Colombia’s Fungi
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500: Fernando Montaño: Colombia's Billy Elliot
499: A Review of Colombia's Politics in 2023
498: Birdwatching for Peace
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