Paula*, 14, Ecuador

I, Paula*, an Ecuadorian student from a fiscal educational institution in Guayaquil, used to think as a child that if I had to choose a career it should be a career that could help both people and animals. Did you ever have that idea? To follow your childhood dream...

Veterinary medicine felt like the right career for me since I could live with, help, heal and save the lives of defenseless animals. Well, thanks to DECE and the Education Cannot Wait funded programme “La Educación es el Camino,” this can be achieved. I know that the career I want to pursue in the future is medicine. I want to pursue Cardiology specifically, given its complexities.

*Name changed for privacy purposes.