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Episode Seven: Maria

Surviving Matters

Release Date: 05/01/2019

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Surviving Matters

Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this.

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Surviving Matters

Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this.

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Surviving Matters

Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this.

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Surviving Matters

Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this.

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Surviving Matters

Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this.

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Surviving Matters

Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this.

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Surviving Matters

Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this.

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Surviving Matters

Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this.

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Surviving Matters

Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this.

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Surviving Matters

Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this.

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Maria is a part of a larger story about immigration and human rights. Each year workers in the US, those with documentation and those without, send their wages back to their home countries to the annual sum of $56 billion. It’s the largest, most effective foreign aid in human history and it’s all crowd sourced, one individual at a time.

Twenty years ago Maria’s family in Bolivia was poor and desperate. So Maria, to quote the musical Hamilton, the oldest and the wittiest, left her five year old daughter to be raised by her mother and traveled to New York City to work. She’s been living without documentation while sending every extra penny home to help her family for the last two decades.