Date Build: Saturday 02th, November 2024
FAMILY INFORMATION
MOTHER: Sofia
Age: 36 years old
Job: Teacher and administrative worker
Salary weekly: $150 US
FATHER: Adolfo
Age: 37 years old
Job: Factory worker
Salary weekly: $150 US
CHILDREN:
Sofia - 2 years old
Baby - months old
LETTER FROM THE FAMILY: Hello Homes of Hope, my name is Sofia, I am 36 years old. It is a pleasure to greet you and I hope you are doing very well. My family consists of my husband, Jaime Adolfo Castillo Zapata, your servant, Alma Sofia Flores Rivera, and our little daughter, Sofia Castillo Flores, who is 2 years old. Below I tell our story. In November 2021 my husband and I got married, I am a person who grew up in the church and my prayer request to get married was answered by God 3 years ago. When we got married, my parents gave us shelter in their house here in Tijuana and we lived there in one room, some time later we began to save to buy a piece of land and start our project to build a house, at that time my husband worked in an auto parts store and I worked in a school in the administrative area. In November 2022 our first child Sofia was born. My husband and I were saving to fence our land and an unexpected event occurred when our car was stolen. It was very useful for us because we could do many activities with it. We decided to look for our car, but we could not find it, so we had to buy a new car and we had to wait to fence our land. Among the many problems we went through, this was the first. That same year, we began to have family problems and insecurity with crime in the neighborhood. My parents had a store and they had to close it. We used to go to church in the neighborhood and because of the crime we had to move to another place. My husband lost his job, but he was able to find another job in manufacturing at Toyota, so I continued my same job in administration. Unfortunately, my husband had to quit this new job because it was far from my parents' house and the road was in very bad condition, so for many other reasons it was not convenient to continue that job. After that, we got a loan to build a room in my parents' house because it was a better option because if we built this room on our land, we would have to spend more money. At the end of 2023 we had savings, with this we leveled our land, but again we had another problem, my mother-in-law got sick with her lungs, we took her to a private hospital where she was hospitalized for 20 days, we had to pay a very high bill, so that caused us to go into debt, thank God she was relieved. In January 2024 I became pregnant again, in February of the same year the doctors gave us the news that we were going to have twins, I was worried because I did not know how I was going to cover the expenses of my three children, my husband was happy with the news, but at the end of March they gave us the news that one of the babies had no vital signs and that only one of them would be able to develop, for this reason my husband and I became depressed. Thank God, the baby we were waiting for is with us in perfect health. So far, the dream of having our own home is still present. I hope in God that we can count on His help. God knows the needs and the cries of every family. I am grateful that we have been given the opportunity to be a part of the history of Homes of Hope and I ask God, if it is His will, to provide the means for this dream to become a reality. We are grateful for the work you are doing. I ask God to greatly bless your lives. We send you a big hug, the Castillo Flores family.