Oaxaca Youth Empowerment
by Oaxaca Youth Empowerment
OYE Podcast gives voice to the young graduates of Centro de Esperanza Infantil, A.C., a nonprofit supported by Oaxaca Youth Empowerment that has spent 25 years helping children and young adults in Oaxaca, Mexico stay in school and build a future.Each episode is a conversation with a graduate — doctors, artists, architects, engineers, nurses — who share how they overcame poverty, family hardship, and doubt to finish their degrees. They talk openly about the challenges they faced along the way, the people who supported them, and what they'd tell the next generation of Oaxacan youth chasing the
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The Patient Nobody Came For: Sara & Danna's Story | OYE Podcast, Chapter 5
🎙️ This is it — the final episode of Season 1 of OYE Podcast, the series created by Oaxaca Youth Empowerment to give voice to the young graduates of Centro de Esperanza Infantil, the students whose education, nutrition, and health services OYE has helped fund for over 25 years. To close out the...
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From No Internet to Software Engineer: Jose's Story | OYE Podcast, Chapter 4
In this episode of OYE Podcast, we sit down with Jose, a graduate in Software Engineering and Development and a beneficiary of Centro de Esperanza Infantil alongside Oaxaca Youth Empowerment.Jose talks about growing up without economic privilege and commuting nearly an hour each way to study in...
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She Wasn't Supposed to Belong Here: Salmai's Story | OYE Podcast, Chapter 3
In this episode of OYE Podcast, we sit down with Salmai, a graduate in Architecture and a beneficiary of Centro de Esperanza Infantil alongside Oaxaca Youth Empowerment.Salmai talks about the doubt and exclusion she faced from classmates who didn't think she belonged in architecture; the...
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Art, Grief, and Resistance: Marisol's Story | OYE Podcast, Chapter 2
In this episode of OYE Podcast, we sit down with Marisol, a graduate in Visual and Fine Arts and a beneficiary of Centro de Esperanza Infantil alongside Oaxaca Youth Empowerment.Marisol talks about her art series on grief, inspired by the moth's life cycle as a pre-Hispanic symbol; the difference...
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Life, Death, and Medicine in Rural Oaxaca: Johana Esmeralda's Story | OYE Podcast, Chapter 1
In this first episode of OYE Podcast, we sit down with Johana Esmeralda, a graduate of the Integrated Medicine and Community Health program at Universidad para el Bienestar Benito Juárez, and a beneficiary of Centro de Esperanza Infantil alongside Oaxaca Youth Empowerment.Johana shares what it…
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OYE Podcast gives voice to the young graduates of Centro de Esperanza Infantil, A.C., a nonprofit supported by Oaxaca Youth Empowerment that has spent 25 years helping children and young adults in Oaxaca, Mexico stay in school and build a future.Each episode is a conversation with a graduate — doctors, artists, architects, engineers, nurses — who share how they overcame poverty, family hardship, and doubt to finish their degrees. They talk openly about the challenges they faced along the way, the people who supported them, and what they'd tell the next generation of Oaxacan youth chasing the
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