“The truth is that I’m scared,” Tecúm admitted in K’iche’.
For now, the 31-year-old garment factory worker, who speaks little Spanish, doesn’t want the vaccine. But she’s among many who Alba Gonzalez, a 28-year-old staffer at CIELO, an Indigenous organization in L.A., hopes will change their minds after she educates them about the vaccine in their language.
“This is what’s happening in my community now,” said Gonzalez, a Maya from the Guatemalan department of Totonicapán. “It’s a bit difficult but not impossible because I speak the language and I can give them confidence.”
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