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María Alejandra Mahecha

María Alejandra Mahecha

She is 21 years old and is the representative of young people in the National Table of Victims. Soccer and sport have become her strategy to work for the victims and the country. A story full of overcoming and future.

“I was eight years old when one night I slept in Neiva and woke up in a blue truck in Sibaté, the cold did not let me sleep, I was with my sister, both wrapped in a blanket, in the middle of a mess of things: my dad’s materials, their bed … it was a crazy scab, seeing things go down was the first strong shock, one does not realize what is coming and we get excited because it was like a vacation”.

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