"Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many."

1 Corinthians (12, 14)

Right then, who am I to want to serve in the International Team of IMCS?

Today, I am a social worker engaged in social issues, aware of the present inequalities in my country, in my region, and in the world. But what I am today is rooted and was created and formed because I was part of a reality of injustice and inequality.

I come from a simple family of a small quiet town. Thanks to my family economic effort I studied in Catholic schools, which didn't help me to meet my faith, on the contrary, I felt as if this reality was not for me; this punishing God that they showed me was not the one I was taught in my house, where God is synonymous with love.

Arriving in the secular University, it seemed that I would not get back to my Catholic life, but although I avoided it for a while, the appeal was stronger.

Apparently I had the honour to be in a University bringing together young people from the most disadvantaged environments of the Province. When I saw my companions in a great need, and even more than me, struggling to finish studies, of course, the moment came when I was feeling concerned and in trouble, it was painful to witness, to see these people surrounding the University and who did not exist before in my life. Thus my heart felt a strange heat inside, this feeling of latent injustice, the need to do something to change things.

And then I decided to go and meet my faith: there was no better way to recognize Christ among young people. Then, I joined the Catholic University Student Association (AUC) with a suitcase full of good intentions, doubts and social concerns; it was at this time in my life that I took the path of faith. I did not have the money for University but, even so, I believed in me and believed that I had to be there, I had to become a professional, and realize it was not my fault if I were poor and that nobody would understand the effort of my family for giving me access to education.

It was hard, but through this difficult time, I realized my vocation. I had to work for others, for my companions who could not continue because of a lack of money, for these people who helped me to get out of it, for the more humble and oppressed people who don't have the opportunities that I had. From that time on, my student life hasn't been the same anymore; I actively took part to my movement, in the federations of students for environmental causes, I brandished the flag of gender equality, I built a network with people in various sectors, religions, political ideologies, etc. in order to be more "integral" and through these actions, being able to evangelize in the University. Then my only desire was and will always be to announce the Kingdom of God, by fighting with peace, justice and love.