Exercise classes, computer skills and the chance to chat: how Bogotá is changing the lives of unpaid carers

Exercise classes, computer skills and the chance to chat: how Bogotá is changing the lives of unpaid carers

An innovative programme in the Colombian capital is giving caregivers, most of them women, a newfound confidence and sense of ‘harmony’

Adela Rubiano Hurtado does not feel there was a point when she made the decision to care for her granddaughter. It was just that when Rubiano’s daughter became pregnant at 15, and could not care for the baby, there was no one else.

“I never considered it a job or a career,” the 67-year-old says from an armchair in her house overlooking the urban sprawl creeping up the mountains of Colombia’s capital, Bogotá. “Who else was going to do it?”

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