Barbara Arredondo: I Am Here

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INTRODUCTION
How far would you go to make a real change for your country? Or what’s the limit for you to start to do something? Barbara Arredondo in time of violence in Mexico (2011) "I decided to look out for the Mother Teresa’s, Einstein’s and Gandhi's from the XXI century, and I have found them". She was a journalist that worked in the hardest moments of violence in Monterrey, Arredondo said (2012) she was tired of watching and hearing always only violence in the news.
The limit for her was when, Barbara Arredondo (2013), “The limit for me was when two blocks away from my office, there was a massacre, where a fire killed 52 people in casino. That’s when I decided that I had to do something”. Barbara stated that “In times of war or violence there isn’t always just negative news, I believe that there is always a light in time of darkness”. At the age of 28 she created the social movement called I am here.

DEVELOPEMENT
I am here it's a special and international movement of transformation that emerged in Monterrey in 2011, Barbara Arredondo (2013). She gathered more than 20 ins...

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