THE PARAPAN AMERICAN FLAME REPRESENTS A LIFE THAT NEVER ENDS

The Lima 2019 specialist in labor climate and organizational change, who is dedicated to enhance Peruvian crafts during the development of the competitions, carried the Parapan American Torch surrounded by friends and family.  

“To me, the Parapan American Flame represents hope and a life that never ends. We can get through everything. I wanted to be a torchbearer to transmit the light of hope, joy, and good spirits that must always exist in every moment,” she stated.  

D’Azevedo has been part of the project since the beginning, three years ago, going through what has been an intense career, but also full of light.  

“I’m one of those who started the preparation and development of the Games, and my role was focused on enhancing the organizational change of this beautiful project that is having the success and achievements we have been working on step by step. Today we are seeing the results, because when you are persistent and decide what you want, that is fulfilled.”  

Native from Iquitos, D’Azevedo has worked for 20 years outside Peru—in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay—always in humanization and good treatment. However, she assured that Lima 2019 represented a unique challenge in her professional career, as it involved working with a big international group, but at home.  

“As a group, Lima 2019 has been very rich because it includes people from different parts of the world, there is a lot of intercultural richness. We got a project with a lot of drawbacks off the ground, always believing that if each one of us worked on what we had been entrusted with, we could move forward. And we did it.”