In Mexico, the blind and visually impaired are confrontating precarious social conditions: for them, is very difficult to find decent job, good education and efficient health services, but finding places that allow them to develop cultural, sports and recreational activities is even more difficult or almost impossible.
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In the capital of the country - the Federal District - there are only two sports centers with specialized trainers to teach swimming to blind and visually impaired children.
However, swimming allows blind children and youth to acquire independence, and confidence in themselves and in their capacities, because in a society where they integrate difficultly people with disabilities, they are winning successfully.
Immersed in water, origin of life and representation of the infinite, the blind are immersed in a dream world where your senses and enhance their alleged shortcomings disappear, which are free
The photos were taken in the Mexican Paralympic Center.
She was selected to participate in Descubrimientos Photoespaña in Guatemala City in 2009; Fellow Young Artists Program, the National Fund for Culture and the Arts 2007-2008.Primer Place in the National Contest Faces of Discrimination 2009. among other national awards in photography competitions in Human Rights.
Selected in the national contest Young Art 2008. Has participated in several group exhibitions in México For 7 years working in Mexican newspapers and magazines as a photojournalist.
