Ola listeners, for this special season of the Duolingo Spanish podcast, we're revisiting

some of our favorite stories from indigenous communities across Latin America.

Today we'll travel to the Amazon Rainforest in Peru to hear an episode from July 2020.

There, Dr. Magali Blas served pregnant women in a community that didn't have access to

healthcare, but things quickly changed when Magali herself became pregnant.

Keep listening to hear her story and stay tuned until the end for a special update from Magali.

Now on to the episode.

It was 2014 and Dr. Magali Blas, a trained medical epidemiologist, was on assignment deep

inside the Amazon Rainforest in Peru.

She was there to study healthcare in riverbound communities, and her work soon brought her in contact

with a woman named Judith.

Judith had given birth six times, but she had never seen a doctor or a midwife.

Her youngest daughter was delivered in a hut on the floor.

The last daughter of Judith weighed only 1200 grams and she was very small.

She took her to the hospital, but she stayed at three hours of her community.

Judith is among the millions of indigenous people who live in the Peruvian Amazon, many

below the poverty line.

Living conditions there can be really challenging, especially for pregnant women.

In that place, there is almost no access to doctors.

To get to the hospital, you have to take a small boat with a motor.

This is the main means of transport in the river, and the trip can be of 100 km or more.

Judith's baby didn't survive and was the second daughter she had lost.

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