2. WHO IS ALFONSO
Despite being born without legs due to an illness, Alfonso is a surfer, a skateboarder, gives
motivational talks and makes a living singing rap on the buses of Barranquilla. He is 25 years old
and from Venezuela. He emigrated from there to Colombia illegally and lives with his wife, his
newborn daughter and his older brother.
3. HIS CHILDHOOD
Alfonso suffered bullying at school. He said that some of the classmates left him
locked up in the bathroom, other made fun of him condition… Because that and
other things that happened to him, at 14 he had depressions and even thought
about committing suicide.
4. HIS GRANDMOTHER
He was raised by his grandmother but he didn't have much luck with it either.
«At the age of 9, one night before going to sleep, he made me promise that I would study, that I
would get ahead, that despite everything I was not going to feel less than the others ... I promised
him that I would be great. When I woke up the next morning they gave me the news that she had
died that night.
