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Personal life of Glenda Morejón

Glenda Morejón comes from a family of medium-low social status, her father Luis Morejón is a professional, in addition to helping with domestic chores, her mother María del Carmen Quiñónez works in the 24 de Mayo market in the city of Otavalo and her sister María Belén, who follows in her footsteps and is a walker. At the age of thirteen Glenda began to practice in the field of Olympic walks, along with the help of her coach Giovan Delgado a Guayaquil graduated in Physical Culture who works in the Educational Unit Ibarra and who lives in Ibarra since 1988, which also founded the Tarquino Jaramillo Athletic School in 2001, where Glenda trains along with 24 other athletes.

With respect to her university education, the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL) has awarded Glenda a sports scholarship that covers 70% of her first cycle tuition and will cover 90% of the total cost of tuition in all cycles of her Business Administration career in open and distance modality.

Published Works of María Fernanda Ampuero

2. Published works

2.1 Residence Permit (2013)

In Residence Permit (Permiso de Residencia) María Fernanda talks about journalistic chronicles of the Ecuadorian migration to Spain, she also tells what it means to arrive at a place that is not known, to start from scratch and how difficult it is to create that which is called home. In order to write this book, the writer changed her homeland and went to live in Spain to write, feel and get to know first hand all that the people who, for different reasons, had to make the decision to leave Ecuador and live in another new homeland, have lived. Of course this act carried out by the author demonstrates a total attachment to her writing and also a real experience that was clearly not easy.

Throughout the book, the author delves into the lives of Latin American migrants, especially Ecuadorians; she searches for their stories in different Spanish cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Seville.

Several of these stories managed to make Ecuador known internationally, since the migrants were "ambassadors", so to speak, of our country, they brought their race, their customs, and so on. During their stay the migrants did the work that the Spaniards did not want to do, such as caring for children and the elderly, carpentry, bricklaying, hospitality, agriculture and domestic service.

In residence permits, each of the 45 stories we can find tells a different situation that a migrant had to live through. For example: A woman was in a bus full of single women, who were looking for a companion, but in the end the men only wanted to take advantage of them; it is also mentioned a woman who works as a nanny is desperately looking for a way to communicate with her small children whom she cannot take care of.

Twenty years ago it was the Ecuadorians who arrived at the airports of Madrid or Barcelona, today it is Venezuelans, Chinese, Colombians who are in search of a new opportunity, a new life. “Permiso de residencia” is a book that speaks of a global reality, migration is a social phenomenon that will span decades, this book is just a reminder that you should never forget the origin of where we came from.

2.2. What I learned at the hairdresser's (2011)

María Fernanda Ampuero published “Lo que aprendí en la peluquería in 2011”, under the publishing house Dinediciones. It is a book where she compiles her columns published in the magazine Fucsia, which she wrote since 2003. Each column talks about its own and other people's experiences: from the time it lived in Guayaquil to its installation in Spain.

Ampuero divides the book into four chapters: 'Alone or with ice?', 'Babies or not babies... that's the dilemma', 'The girl from Guayaquil' and 'What I learned in the hairdressing salon'. Each chapter includes opinion articles, accounts of their migratory experiences and criticisms.

The name of the book, according to Ampuero, refers to being in the hairdresser's, that is, a space where people meet and exchange experiences in a friendly and trusting environment.