{"id":407744,"date":"2026-09-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/?p=407744"},"modified":"2026-09-25T15:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T13:19:53","slug":"maria-owner-of-her-own-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/maria-owner-of-her-own-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria: owner of her own business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After years of working as a domestic worker in family homes, Maria took part in PROFOR, the Program for Strengthening New Inclusive Businesses of Communion.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was when she was able to transform her life and dedicate herself to her true passion: baking.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, with a formally registered business and 100% of her income coming from her own enterprise, she teaches other women in her community how to bake cakes, so that they too can discover that they are capable of building a more dignified life.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Audio in the original language. Click on the bottom right-hand corner where it says \u2018Watch on YouTube\u2019, turn on the subtitles and select your preferred language. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:16px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#EdC35 El camino del emprendimiento en la Econom\u00eda de Comuni\u00f3n: Maria Pires Dos Santos, Brasil\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mk3xZDbiwPc?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo: \u00a9 frentescuphotography by Pexels<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:213px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testimony by Maria Pires, Brazil, at the event: \u2018A Path to Regeneration: 35 Years of the Economy of Communion\u2019, held in Buenos Aires in May 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":407743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2826,2844,3286],"tags":[2848,2908,3196],"class_list":["post-407744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultura-2","category-sociale-3","category-testimonianze-di-vita-en","tag-brasile-2","tag-economia-di-comunione-2","tag-ppg-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407745,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407744\/revisions\/407745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}