Blanca

Victoria is 84 years old. As a young girl, her first job was working with her father in the cotton fields of Acajutla (Sonsonate). Later, she dedicated her entire life to planting and harvesting corn and beans and raising chickens. “The machete and extreme work was my life,” says Victoria. She currently helps take care…

Marceline is 50 years old. She never went to school and has battled all her life to barely survive. She is the mother of 5 children. Between her daily chores taking care of the little ones and helping them with homework, she’s working on a farm. With Marceline’s case, we had a dozen of extractions,…

Maximilian is 68 years old. He suffers from arterial hypertension, diabetes, and pain inhis body due to arthritis, but that does not prevent his dedication to agriculture work he’s been doing thought his life. At the dental office, we diagnosed abundant bacterial plaque, gingivitis, and bleeding, some teeth fractured, and other necrotic or dead (root…

Don Raúl is 78 years old and retired. It’s been a couple of years since he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, but tremors and difficulty walking and moving to prevent him from staying active and working on a daily basis grinding corn. 20 years ago Raúl had a traffic accident in which he almost lost…

María Isabel is 65 years old and has always been dedicated to working in the field and doing the housework. Her tasks multiply since she has under her care a son with blindness who has had his leg amputated. She is a person with few financial resources and sometimes survives on community aid. She has…

Sixty-six years old Guillerma has spent 40 years without teeth. She has survived her whole life making tortillas and sometimes working in the field. Five years ago, Guillerma had an accident that led to her left arm fracture and severe pain and deformity that makes her day-to-day work in the field very difficult. She is…