Marina Esmeraldo

And it goes back to that Declaration of Universal Rights concept that, you know, freedom of movement, everyone has the right to this and nobody, no one person is illegal.

The goal was always to improve the street vendors' living conditions as a community and take people out of the streets and help regularize their situations by providing visas and offering them jobs.

And yeah, each unique jacket that was created was for that process.

I think leaving your hometown makes you drift forever, in a way.

Because once you have the experience of living a...

it doesn't even have to be abroad.

It can just move from your city, but you, you dig up your roots.

Like as peoples, we were never meant to travel.

Like it, it, there is a grief in leaving home.

There is always a difficult process in leaving your roots behind.

And I'm working hard not to cry.

Um,

Working with Top Manta consolidated my thoughts on belonging because I just realized that we don't belong anywhere, we belong to ourselves.