Carla Parks

Jul 25, 2024 | immersives.pioneerspost.com | Carla Parks |Fanny Blanquier |Anna Patton

All hands on deck The social enterprise deploying young people to protect our seas Worsening ocean health, staff shortages in the marine industries, and young people in coastal areas out of work – they all add up to one obvious solution for Sea Ranger Service. The Dutch social enterprise has found a novel way to train up and deploy young people, with the ambitious goal of restoring one million hectares of ocean biodiversity by 2040.

May 23, 2023 | latinolife.co.uk | Carla Parks

A story that encompasses poverty, struggle, perseverance, hard work and stunning success has the hallmarks of a Hollywood blockbuster. Fernando Montaño, however, is not the product of some movie executive’s imagination, but a flesh and blood dancer who has risen from the slums of Colombia to dance for the Royal Ballet as a soloist, the first from his country to do so. It’s the kind of ending many people dream of, but very few ever achieve.

Mar 26, 2023 | latinolife.co.uk | Carla Parks

Cultures collide in Leila Segal’s melancholy short stories about Cuba. Her debut collection focuses on the struggles of ordinary Cubans trying to make a life for themselves many years after Fidel Castro seized power. The picture is generally bleak, with taxi drivers, doctors, students and those in the tourist trade hoping for a better life in a country where most people are robbed of anything but the basics.  These natives rub up against foreigners traveling through the country.