The
old pickup truck — loaded with mattresses, plastic bags of clothing, and a few sacks of groceries — chugged to a halt in front of the Instituto, a shelter for battered women in downtown Montevideo, Uruguay.
A
translator with the United Nations for about three decades, Nadia Niedzielska has worked in New York City as well as in several countries in Europe and Africa.
I didn't enter a design career with a burning passion, but rather from the need of supporting myself after my husband passed on — at a time when job opportunities for women were very limited.
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