Oswaldo Contreras, Guadalaja course manager, recently visited a Pride campaign in northern Mexico.
Recently, I went on a monitoring visit to a Pride campaign in El Tokio in northern Mexico. It’s one of our TNC partnership campaigns, and Pronatura Noreste is the local lead agency. El Tokio is in the Chihuahuan desert and has the biggest prairie dog colony in the world. The change in land use from grasslands to agriculture and the excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides are some of the environmental threats this Pride campaign is working on.
The campaign manager there is Adorit Lopéz-Ventura, and she recently had a child. Kaled is her three-month-old baby, and now it is quite a challenge for Adorit to finish her Pride campaign with only three months to go in its last phase. Definitively, course managers like me must be ready for everything. During the whole monitoring week we were babysitting Kaled and completing tasks on her Pride campaign (she could not find a babysitter on time).
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Adorit Lopéz-Ventura films her husband in a prairie dog costume.
Fortunately, I love kids, and it does not matter to me making him sleep while Adorit was dealing with printers and designers. Kaled is a good child. Like a clock, he let us know when he had to sleep, eat or just be a good pal joining us on our daily tasks. Quite a challenge for Adorit, but she is doing her best.
On this visit, she showed me some nice pictures of when she was pregnant and doing school visits in several villages on the desert prairie. Her husband also works for Pronatura Noreste. He helped Adorit on these outreach visits, getting inside of the prairie dog costume of the campaign’s mascot. It was just great to see the couple working together on their Pride campaign—both very happy to be expecting soon her first child.
Personally, I think this experience shows us how important is the commitment of our campaign managers, and how they can enjoy their Pride experiences with their family. I saw that Adorit’s newborn child is not an obstacle for her job, but a motivation for her to do her best to make a better world for Kaled.
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