Angela Ojeda Ruiz checks the list of clients for the day at the front desk of Obando / LAURA PLACE Two years ago, hair stylist Angela Ojeda Ruiz established her salon, Obando. Located on Calle de la Amargura, the salon distinguishes itself through its environmentally conscious products and welcoming environment. The business is also founded…
Members of FAKALI during the demonstration in Seville to commemorate International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2018. Sandra Heredia Fernández is at the center. A LITTLE GIRL WITH STRAIGHT BROWN HAIR stares into the video camera and declares, “I will be Doctor Samara Hernández.” She then quickly smiles, forming small wrinkles around her eyes. “I love…
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Anna Quigley and Asa Goldstein interviewed the CIEE student Kashaf Momin. In this excellent project, in which its authors offer us images of the demonstration on March 8 in Seville, Kashaf offers us her perspective on the great relevance of this day.
In this project by Yasmin Roberts and Rachel Sears we meet Fran Machado, who tells us about La Corrala, a house of neighbors in the historic center of Seville that hosts artistic and educational proposals of different types.
When the financial crisis left Manuel Ruiz and Sergi Arnán out of work in 2008, each began to consider becoming self-employed. They met in 2010 and by 2012, La Hogaza, their artisanal bread-baking business, was already active. Since then, the company has grown, though not without its fair share of hardship. They do the baking…
Rosa and Manuel have been working for years in the famous Sevillian market of El Jueves. In this excellent project, Selina Guevara and Mollee Frankel bring us closer to the history of their lives, from the time they met until today. A life that has not been exactly easy and that in its last years…
There is an increasing awareness in Seville of the importance of eating a healthy diet that respects the environment. The interviewees in this excellent project by Gili Remen and Steph Cohen are a sample of this. Owners of a vegan restaurant and a store of organic products, they explain their motivation to take a step…
From her second-hand clothing store for children, located in the heart of Seville, Lola Jiménez Calderón is a professional committed to improving the living conditions of children in her city, toy by toy. Lola is a tall, 55-year-old woman and has a slightly raspy voice with which she is always willing to add her opinion to conversations….
For Rosa Paz caballero, 62, and her husband Manuel Galindo Geneiro, 63, family is at the core of everything they do. From financial stability in Madrid, to scrounging for metal pieces and cardboard to sell on the streets of Seville, to now selling antiques in a historic market for extra money, Manuel and Rosa work tirelessly to…
The CIEE Global High School program takes high school students from the United States to different corners of the world so that for a few weeks they can be part of communities so different from the one they come from (and so similar, at the same time). Global Discovery is one of the courses of…
