Date Build: Friday 22 - Saturday 23, March 2024
FAMILY INFORMATION:
FATHER: Victor
Age: 20 years old
Job: waiter
Salary Weekly: $200US
MOTHER: Viviana
Age: 18 years old
Job: Stay at Home Mom
CHILDREN
Santiago - 3 years old
Letter from the family:
Our story begins when I got pregnant at 15 years old, and my partner was 17. I spent my pregnancy living with my mom and then with my in-laws because we didn't have anywhere else to go. Later we moved to a room that we were renting from my aunt for 500 pesos. 2 months later, my baby Santiago was born. Later, this aunt got upset with me and said that we had to leave, we went back with my in laws for a while when my son was 4 months old. Then I started working as a cashier for a while. My partner has not been able to get a stable job, he has had a lot of ups and downs in his work. Later he was able to get a job as a waiter, and I also started working at a restaurant with a different schedule.
We worked so hard to be able to get our baby something for his first Christmas and to be able to put a down payment on our property - the cost was 20,000 pesos. During that year, I was paying my mother in law to watch the baby while I worked. Then she had a car accident and so I had to stop working to be able to take care of my baby. So my partner now is working so hard to pay our bills, buy food and of course pay for our property with just a small salary and the tips he makes at the restaurant. Thankfully, we have not fallen behind at all in our payments.
We have had some problems with my mother-in-law at her house, some disagreements about how we raise our child to the point that she wants us to leave her house. This is hard because we don’t have any savings to be able to build even a small room for us to live in.
This is the point that we are at now, and why we applied for a Homes of Hope house. We want to live in a place that’s just for our family, without conflicts and a place where we can form our family since we are still young and have a lot of excitement and are dedicated to what is to come for our family. Thank you for letting us share with you.