Her story thrills and impacts, and is that this powerful girl overcame all the inconveniences that life presented to her. Supported and accompanied by multiple professionals from the National Children’s Service and the Health Services, she found her adoptive family and today she tells us through her mother, in a picture book, her happy ending.
Jessica Cisterna, psychologist at the Adoption Unit of the Metropolitan Sename, comments that the book “has truth, the truth of her story, her name, her first mother, her country of origin, her wounds and losses, her loves, her struggle and her resilience; and she has love, because she talks about a powerful girl and Sylvana, Omar and Aaron, who fell in love with her definitively, to accompany her to grow up.”
Sylvana, adoptive mother and author of the book, invites you to be part of this story: “I invite you to read the book and connect with the emotions that will surface in you. Several moms have told me that their sons and daughters have read the book several times and they love it, especially knowing that the powerful girl does exist. I dream that this book will be in all national libraries, to encourage children’s reading of African descent in Chile.”
“The case of this powerful girl reflects the meaning of adoption processes, which must necessarily be focused on children, in that we can love and embrace their present, in dreaming and projecting their future, but also in being respectful of their origin, of their history, of how we identify and make it our own from the position in which we must participate as adults,” adds Carlos Soto, coordinator of the Adoption Unit of sename Metropolitano.
You can learn more about the book in https://unaninapoderosa.wixsite.com/libro
