(3 May 2025)
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Bogota, Colombia – 02 May 2025
1. Various of girls waiting outside beauty saloon to celebrate 15th birthday, Quinceañera party
2. Various of girls getting makeup done
3. Various of girls getting hair styled and crowns
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carolina Rodriguez, Mother of girl celebrating 15th birthday:
"We really don’t have the resources, the money. I am a single mother and head of the family and I don’t have the resources to make the party. Mr. Fredy (Alfonso Paez, from Fundacion Sueños) told me. I registered my daughter and we received a benefit."
5. Rodriguez doing makeup on her daughter Gabriela
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gabriela Moncada, celebrating 15th birthday:
"I really wanted a party but we don’t have the money. So the truth is I dreamed for a party that could never be. Thanks to the help of the foundation and Mr. Freddy it all came true."
7. Female police officers helping girls adjust their dress
8. Various of Quinceañeras putting on their gala dresses to celebrate their 15th birthday party
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Freddy Alfonso Paez, Staff Sergeant of the Colombian National Police and Director of the Dreams come True Foundation:
"They fill out a form with some questions and we start the process to see if it is really like they don’t have enough resources, maybe there is a girl with a disability, an orphan or with a terminal illness."
10. Various of Quinceañeras traveling in an open limousine to their party
11. Various of police officers raising sabers for Quinceañera
12. Various of police officers dancing with the birthday girls
13. Girls changing shoes
14. Fernanda Tamayo changing shoes for her daughter
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernanda Tamay , Mother of Quinciañera:
"The dream was that my daughter could have a party like this, a big one and with all the props."
16. Various of quinceañeras dancing waltz with relatives
STORYLINE:
Their dreams of celebrating their "quinceañeras” seemed unattainable. Then a foundation, with the support of the police and some private companies, made it come true.
Twenty-four teenagers in Bogota, Colombia on Friday celebrated their 15th birthday – a traditional rite of passage, particularly for girls, in parts of Latin America – as part of an initiative by a foundation called “Sueños Hechos,” or “Dreams come True.”
"I really wanted a party but we don’t have the money, so the truth is I dreamed for a party that could never be," said Gabriela Moncada, who had wanted a party and to wear a jade-green ball gown, but her family didn’t have the means to afford it.Then she was selected by the foundation.
The 24 girls came to Bogota from different places around Colombia’s capital.
They brought photographs of the hairstyles they wanted, and some got makeup for the first time in their lives. Then they were taken in limousines to a hall for the formal party, where police officers were waiting for them and raised their sabers to make a parade to honor them.
The foundation opened a call for applications, and about 100 people registered, and after a review they picked up 24.
AP Video by Marko Alvarez
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