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El Colectivo 506 recognized at first-ever Carework Network awards
This week, we were honored to receive one of the first-ever Carework Network Awards for El Colectivo 506's October 2022 edition, "Las Titas."
This inspiring...
El Colectivo 506 honored by the jury of Costa Rica’s Pío Víquez National Journalism Award
Our media organization, founded and led by women passionate about in-depth solutions journalism, has been honored by the jury of Costa Rica's Pío Víquez...
Can Costa Rican municipalities safeguard caregivers’ mental health?
“Mom, don’t do that. Mom, make sure you don’t fall down. Mom, you ok over there?”
Psychologist Giselle Chanto is trying to show me how...
Podcast in Spanish: Caregiving as a shared public-private responsibility in Costa Rica
Mónica Quesada Cordero reads her report in Spanish from the October 2022 edition, 'Las Titas', which focused on inequalities in care work and the...
Rocío Monge, 63, and Enrique Barreda, 64, have lived in Tibás all their lives. When they were a young couple, they built their house...
Caregiving as a shared public-private responsibility in Costa Rica
In Costa Rica, 80% of households with children under four assume 100% of the caregiving. This usually means that women take on this task.
An...
This episode of our podcast is biliingüal. Mónica and Katherine talk about caregiving, in Costa Rica, in their lives, in the lives of the...
The challenges of older adults in Costa Rica today
Costa Rica is getting old. Experts tell us that the older adult population is going to grow exponentially; the population pyramid is about to...
In Talamanca, a powerful ‘mother hen’
In 2020 I became a mother for the first time. I remember that one of the first people I wanted to call was doña...
The economy of care and its professionalization
Paola Mejías Molina was in the last months of her nursing degree at Santa Lucía University when she decided to start a business: highly...
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Passion for journalism: reflections from El Salvador’s ‘Mediatón’
What do you do before starting a new project? It can be something relatively simple like your kid’s homework from school, or reorganizing a...