# @natgeo on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CMH3tFqj6DF
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11685746-natgeo-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-03-07T15:43:38.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic (@NatGeo) — https://gondola.cc/NatGeo

## Caption

Photos by Karla Gachet kchete77 / “Receiving DACA meant I could finally work in the medical field and was able to use my degree that I worked so hard for.” —Alicia Sandoval

Alicia, 32, is the director of health education at Parktree Community Center in Ontario and Pomona, California. She educates chronic disease patients on how to manage their health in order to prevent them from getting COVID-19. She also assisted the center with creating and implementing all the educational material on the virus for patients and staff. Alicia came to the U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico, when she was a year old. Her parents are also essential workers and own a cleaning service, Sandoval Janitorial Services, which has been in business since she was a little girl. Alicia helps her family out on the weekends with their cleaning business when they need her.

*Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) protects undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children from deportation. This project was created by kchete77 and ivankphoto with the support of the natgeo COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists. #DACA #dacaessentialworkers #HOMEisHERE 

(1) Family photo of Alicia (courtesy of the Sandoval family) around the time she was brought to the U.S. (2) Alicia offers health education over the phone to a patient at Parktree Community Center in Ontario, California. (3, 4) Alicia helps make a health plan for a diabetes patient at Parktree Community Center in Pomona, California. (5, 6) Alicia spends a Sunday with her family in San Bernardino, California. (7, 8) Alicia cleans an office with her family in San Bernardino. Her family’s business put her through college and she still helps out when they need her on the weekends. (9, 10) Alicia loves Disneyland. She owns a collection of Mickey Mouse ears and always buys a yearly pass to the park.

Check out Nat Geo's link in bio for more on this story.

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