Even with only one leg, Paul Villafuerte trains hard at Barras Praderas. This “sui generis” street academy is located in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, one of the most criminalized municipalities in the state, which promotes physical activity to rescue children and youth from drugs and crime.
A wasteland, which was used by the San Mateo neighborhood as a garbage dump, was transformed thanks to the movement and dreams of Paul Villafuerte, who at 23, now 35, lost a leg (left) in an accident. a situation that depressed him and made him fall into alcohol and drugs.