Families That Wait For Roblealto's Services in Los Guido

Four families crowd together in a network of bedrooms which share a common space with only one couch and table. Most are separated from the common space only by a curtain. The rooms are dark and littered with blankets where the adults sleep. While the conditions are bleak the four families do their best to live together and care for each other's children, especially an infant named John Paul who is paralyzed. A teenage couple also struggles to make ends meet for their young son. The families welcomed prayer and the news that with the help of churches and other international sources of funds, the Los Guido child care center could be built. It was clear how much of a difference would be made were these families to have have access to spiritual support, education, health care, and an opportunity to find work while children receive care.

Yesenia and her five children live together in a crowded home of three small rooms, one of which serves as a bedroom, kitchen and washing area. Yesenia struggles to provide for her children since the death of her husband by cleaning two other houses a week when the children are at school. School is only half day and so this affords little time for work and caring for her family. Problems in her neighborhood include: drugs, child prostitution, theft, and violence. To gain extra income she sells raffle tickets. The daily struggles of this family would be greatly alleviated with access to child care through Roblealto, allowing Yesenia to find more consistent and better paying work. She keeps her family together through prayer and church involvement.

Pamela, her husband and her two sons live in a few rooms in the back of her mother-in-law's house that is shared by three families. This is a common story in Los Guido for people who have no money for rent and so crowd into homes with extended family. Pamela is worried of the lack of safety in her neighborhood and not having enough space for her two young sons. The only livable room serves as a bedroom, laundry and play area for the entire family. If she were to have access to child care through Roblealto she could seek work and gain income for her family, allowing them to move into a home suitable for a young family. She has another child on the way.

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