"I would tell my past self to study as much as I can," Fanny, 55, said. "My parents abandoned me when I was six years old and I really wanted to study, but I didn't have enough money. Then I met my husband and he didn't support me at all. He didn't even let me study. This is why I'm here." (Abasto Market–Santa Cruz, Bolivia)
"I moved to Potosí two years ago from Oruro because my husband got a job here," Marina said. "It was difficult because I don't have any family here and I just came with my husband and kids. It's hard to take care of my two children while my husband is gone all day working, but I give them all that I can because I want them to be successful in life." (Potosí, Bolivia)
"The dreams that I have for my child is for her to get a degree," Genona said. "First to graduate from school, then become a professional. My daughter will be the first in the family to get a degree because I didn't finish school. I stopped when I was in sixth grade." (Buena Vista, Bolivia)
"Sometimes my mom was absent while I was growing up, but I understand why now," Jaqueline said. "It's because she didn't have a formal job and she didn't earn that much money, so she had to work a lot. She was gone a lot because she had to give her kids the best and that's what I'm doing now for my two children." (Potosí, Bolivia)
"In my childhood I suffered too much because I wasn't raised by my mother," Maria Eugenia said. "Recently my mother passed away. It's been two years since then, this July. I'm alone now, well, not that alone, because thanks to God I have my children. I don't want my kids to be separated from me. I had a tough life because I was always working to make them the people that they are now." (Buena Vista, Bolivia)
"If I were looking at my past self in front of a mirror, I would tell her that when I was studying I should live and take advantage of the many things I had when I was in school," Arminda said. "My hopes and dreams are to open my own business. I want to open a pool in another place outside of Buena Vista." (Buena Vista, Bolivia)
"I have an honest profession," Enrique (R) said. "I have been working for 83 years in my land and have provided good meals with corn and grain. It used to be a quiet city, but in these times there is a lot of delinquency. We live knowing that we could starve." (Cotoca, Bolivia)