The purpose of this initiative is to make visible the challenges that mothers, from different positions and contexts, must face. It is about the challenges of mothers deprived of libertythe challenges faced by migrant mothers along the migratory route, as well as those that provide support in the host communities to migrants, and the contribution of the volunteer mothers and workers of the International Movement of the Red Cross.
The exhibition has 40 portraits and each one has a QR code where you can find the extended story of each of the protagonists, both in Spanish and English. The themes chosen, which functioned as criteria for the selection of images, were detention, migration, host communities y Red Cross.
From left to right: Óscar Chavez, ICRC Head of Operations, Elías Solís, President of the National Society of the Panamanian Red Cross, María del Pilar Pitty, Head of the Administrative Unit for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunities of the National Migration Service , Her Excellency Juana López Córdoba, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Government of Panama; Marisela Silva Chau, head of the ICRC Regional Delegation, Irene Perurena, executive vice president of the City of Knowledge Foundation, Roger Alonso, head of the IFRC Disaster, Climate and Crisis Unit, and Crystal Madrid, Communications officer of the Delegation ICRC Region. Credit: ICRC