Yuli Hernandez, Her Children Are Her Engine

 Yuli Hernandez, Broward County resident, Colombian national, nanny, waitress, Uber driver and single mother of two. Her life is one big race from one responsibility to the next. 

She rises at 6 a.m., gets herself and two children, ages 11 and 6, ready for the day. After dropping them off at school, she heads to her first job as a nanny and cares for someone else’s two children. Hernandez runs to get her kids from school, feeds them, leaves instructions for her babysitter and then rushes out the door to her second job, waiting tables at Segafredo, a restaurant at the mall of Pembroke Gardens. She doesn’t get home until midnight most nights. On the weekends, she works as an Uber driver. 

But, she does it for her children. For them to have a better life is her main goal.

“When you have two more lives ahead depending on yours,” says Yuli, “life becomes more complicated, but more valuable.”

She smiles when she thinks about them.

“My children are my engine” she says.