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Liset Aurora
$0 of $350 donated
Tunja, Colombia
My name is Liset Aurora. I was born in Tunja, Colombia, South America. I am 11 years old. I am the youngest of three children. My older sister is 21 and my younger sister is 20. She has a 2 year old baby. I live with my mother, my two sisters, my nephew and three uncles in a rented apartment. My father abandoned us when I was 4 years old. He lives with another woman and has a little girl-my third sister. Since then, my mother has not received any financial support from him. We, his daughters, do not receive any support towards our education. My mother has struggled and worked very hard to send us to school. My sisters already finished high school but because of financial difficulties were not able to attend college. My sisters do have to work to help my mother because she had an aneurysm and was not able to get a job again, even though she had the desired to continue working. My mother then started to make wooden handicrafts. She sells those handicrafts and with the money she gets w...
Daniel Lopez
$50 of $545 donated
Córdoba, Argentina
When Daniel was three years old his mother and father left him with his grandmother. Ever since then he has been living with his grandmother Rosa who works three times a week in order to support the family. They receive a tiny monthly sum as part of the welfare plan “Vale lo nuestro” (“We’re worth it”). Rosa takes great care of Daniel and encourages him in his efforts to be successful at school.
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