Date Build: Friday 20th - Saturday 21st, September 2024
FAMILY INFORMATION:
MOTHER: Mariana
Age: 32 years old
Job: factory
Salary weekly: $150 US
FATHER: Toribio
Age: 33 years old
Job: factory
Salary Weekly: $130 US
CHILDREN
Brian - 13 years old
Maria - 7 years old
Randi - 3 years old
Letter from the family:
Hello!! We are a family from the south of Mexico. I met my wife when I was 17 and she was 16. We started living together when I was 19 and she was 18. We didn’t have a place of our own so we lived with her mom for a while. We had some disagreements with my wife’s family so we left and we started again from scratch living in a little wood house that belonged to one of my wife’s sisters. We literally had nothing. At that time I was working in the fields and sometimes my wife would come to help me too. We would harvest tomatoes and plant corn and rice when it was the season for it. Soon my wife got pregnant with our first son and because there were not enough work opportunities in our town, I left in search of the American dream so I could give a proper home to my wife and son. I left when my wife was 7 months pregnant and I asked my mom to take care of her while I was aways. I tried to cross the border but I didn’t make it across so I came back and soon my wife had our baby. After I had our baby in my arms I gave up on the American Dream and never again tried to leave. I kept working at the fields harvesting sugar canes and mango, during the season. Some seasons there was no work and it was hard for us but God would always help us giving us strength for every day. When our son turned 5 we decided to have another one and my wife gave birth to a beautiful baby girl we named Maria Fernanda. Money was tight at that time because our first born was starting to go to school and on top of that we had to buy diapers and milk and everything the baby needed. Our situation was very desperate and I heard from a friend that in Tijuana there were a lot of work opportunities and the salaries were better than working in the fields, so I left alone and then found a way to bring my wife and children to be with me. We started again from scratch. Years passed by and both kids now were enrolled in school so now we had more expenses so my wife started to work too. Then my wife became pregnant with our third child during the pandemic and because of the pandemic she lost her job. I was able to keep my job thank God. Our family was growing and our oldest son wanted his own space. We could barely fit in the room we were in. The landlord soon asked us to leave and we had to look for another place, it was even smaller than the first one. The walls and roof were bad and it would leak everywhere during the rainy season. The room would get very cold and damp and our little girl started to get sick because of it and then our son too so we decided it was time to purchase a piece of land so we could stop paying rent. We asked for a loan to give the downpayment and make a little room and we left to live in our own land. During the rainy season this room would also leak and get very damp and cold, our floor was still made of dirt so it would get very muddy inside. My wife asked for another loan to make a concrete floor so the children would not get sick. Later my wife's sister also came to live with us so we were even more tight. We're trying to lend them a hand but our space is very reduced. Our children would love to have more space and privacy, they ask us for more but it doesn’t matter how hard we work, we can’t make it. We do our best but we can’t. A neighbor told us about Homes of Hope and that’s why we are here asking for your help. We’re trying really hard to give our children the best we have and they really long to have a better home. Soon our youngest will start going to school too and our expenses will be even more. With God’s help we hope we can receive this home. We put everything in God’s hands and we pray that his will may be done. Thank you so much for taking the time to read our story.
