Interview with Beatriz Ticliahuanca – Law Student and Domestic Worker
Courageous, strong, determined, with iron will, this young woman native from Piura - a future defender of the rights of women and children, today shares her time between her job as a home attendant and her Law and Political Science classes. I was born in the Machay hunt, district of San Miguel del Faique, province of Huancabamba, department of Piura. At home, my mom, my dad, my 9 brothers and I lived there. I am number 6. My family was dedicated to agriculture and livestock, so since I can remember the first thing I did in the morning was to go see my cows. Then I went back home, got changed, I barely managed to wash my face and left to school. I was always an hour late despite the fact that the school was 5 minutes from my house. When I came back from school I had a quick lunch and again ran to see the animals. At 8 o'clock at night I returned to my house, my mother would say: "dinner", I would have dinner, I would grab my notebooks, tired, until 10 o'clock at night and I would fall asleep on top of my notebook. My would tell me: "Now, daughter, go to sleep". And that was my life. A hard routine for a girl. I finished elementary school and went to San Miguel to finish high school. I lived with my sister, and almost did the same as before: in the morning I would get up, I would bring cane for the pigs, I would go to see the cows, I would go home, iron my uniform and go to school. Getting to school took me an hour, it was quite [...]