Hi, what nerves!
Yes, teacher and nervous today
when facing the public.
Accustomed to talking to the little ones, that’s why.
I am from La Legua, a stigmatized and vulnerable population.
I think many of you have heard about it.
A fighting population that has cried but also that has grown.
Also valued and discriminated against.
I was born and raised in La Legua.
With two wonderful children and four beloved grandchildren, happy.
A long time ago, about nine years,
I went to a school in La Legua to ask for a teaching practice,
I was studying to be a teacher.
Right there, in my beloved Legua
they gave me a pass with the possibility of doing the practice.
In full Legua, the school His Holiness John XXIII
or as they say school 4-80,
where all the children of the “Leguaemergencia” go.
They gave me that possibility, I was very happy, imagine
In my own Legua I do the practice.
As usual, you want to look good and get hired,
it is not true?
Then I belonged to a folklore group
and in 2004, December 22,
there was an 8th grade graduation.
I invited my dance partners, to dance, they tell me:
“Yes perfect”, Monday.
And on Wednesday they tell me: “No, because it scares us,
is that the bullets, is that they can assault us … “
I am faced with a terrible situation
because he was already in the program.
What did I do then? I called my daughter and two nephews of mine
and I prepared three dances and showed them.
It was a success, they invited me to a graduation, to another …
And I told the guys:
Why do not we set up a folklore group?
And Nation Raipillán, which in Mapudungun means flower of spirit, beautiful.
Eighteen, then 40, today we are 300.
And guess what happened, they also hired me!
In March they hired me, they invited me, they called me, I went and they gave me a 5th basic.
A happy 5th basic, a challenge, how good, how rich!
April arrives, the SIMCE results:
terrible, terrible, the worst school nationwide,
The Seremi must be closed.
And we in all the media, my course.
The next day I arrive, I look at my children …
sad, crestfallen, humiliated, with their self-esteem on the floor
and I said: “No, here, from this place you have to produce a change”.
Move to this other place,
and an idea occurred to me, a beautiful idea.
Dance as a means of transformation, as a social change,
imagine to teach them through dance the discipline, to put on makeup,
to believe in them, to be better, to have personality, to shine,
to stand in front of a person, a stage, acquire personality,
to say I am worth, believe in me, I can, I am capable.
And the children begin to marvel; they fall in love with dance
And I put the condition: good grades, to dance,
You behave well, another dance. Wonderful!
There I had the opportunity to meet some children, Paolo, Cati and many more …
Paolo Aguayo, he learned to dance, the best notes,
very disciplined, he acquired discipline everywhere,
I loved the dance, the best averages.
Today he is studying Law at the University.
What a marvel, a child of full “Leguaemergency”!
But not only that, remember that through that
we can get children disciplined,
that they are well, that they believe in themselves,
that look beautiful on a stage, that artists are created.
Guess what happened.
8th year, the same course of 5th or 4th, the best national Simce, 163 points.
What a wonder, we covered his mouth! And what a wonder for them,
because they could, because they were capable. How? Dancing, showing beauty.
Also, with that we give them the opportunity to travel, to expand the world.
Not only is La Legua, there is a world beyond.
It gave me the opportunity to meet a person,
Natasha, head down, with her self-esteem on the floor,
empowered of mine, and says: “Can I dance?
Yes, not only can children and young people dance,
also adults.
And Natasha starts dancing and shines.
Today, another woman made up, beautiful, artist.
I invite you to dream: why do not we lower our weapons,
we raise books and handkerchiefs? it seems to them?
Yes.
I am now going to present Paolo, Cati, my daughter who saved me,
I want you to know them and see them, how they have grown.
Thank you.
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Strong applause to Fabiola and the members of Raipillán,
we invite you to go on stage,
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directly from La Legua
visiting our population,
a strong applause for them.
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