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Date Build: Friday 11th - Saturday 12th, October 2024
FAMILY INFORMATION:
MOTHER: Alondra Monserrat
Age: 26 years old
Job: Factory
Salary Weekly: $130 US
FATHER: Gustavo
Age: 28 years old
Job: cook
Salary Weekly: $200 US
CHILDREN
Angel - 11 years old
Maricela - 5 years old
Letter from the family:
Hello! My name is Gustavo and my wife’s name is Alondra. We have two children Angel and Maricela. My wife and I met in 2011 when I was only 15 and she was 13, that’s when our love story started. We started dating and one year later we were pregnant. I was so scared when she gave me the news, I didn’t know what it was like to be a father or to raise a child. She was also scared but we faced it with responsibility and in December 11 of 2013 our beautiful son was born. He’s 11 years old now and I still call him my baby even if he doesn’t like him a lot. At my age it was very hard to find a job. Sometimes I used to work with my father in law in construction and sometimes I would do other jobs, but they would always underpay me because of my age. It was a very hard beginning for us. The day I turned 18 I was able to get my ID and I went that exact day because I really wanted to have a job with health insurance and other benefits for my family. Then we were able to become independent since we were living with my wife’s family at the beginning, to whom we will always be grateful for helping us at the beginning. That same year we became pregnant with our second child, our princess Maricela. It was then that we started dreaming of having our own home, because at this point we both started working to be able to cover all of our expenses. With a lot of effort we were able to save enough money for a downpayment for a piece of land. We were so happy because finally we were going to be free from paying rent. We took a bank loan and we started building a home. We had placed some of the wooden walls but overnight people came and stole them. We cried a lot because we had put a lot of effort into it and we were still paying for the loan, the land monthly payments, rent and our daily expenses. Thank God a little after that we heard about Homes of Hope and we applied. It would be our dream come true to receive the gift of a Home. God bless you so much!