My Story

It is a wonderfully day to say hello and tell you a little bit about my history. My name is Manuela Amparo Ventura. I am 41 years old and I am a widow. My husband passed away 7 years ago a cause of illness. I live with my son Jonatan Alexander Macario Ventura, he is 9 years old. Thanks to God we are in good health. We live in my late husband´s house. When my husband passed away, I don´t had money to cover all the expenses to the funeral. So, my in laws covered all the expenses. At that time, they spent 6,000Q = 776.07$ but now they want I pay them Q12,000.00 = $1552.14. Sadly, my in laws want to take away me the house as pay of the doubt. Already, they took away the dees of the house and I am sad because I don´t have money to pay the doubt.  I ask your prayers to God made a miracle in our lives and do not lost our house. We trust in him and in his power to chance our situation.

The house has two rooms and a separate kitchen. It is made of adobe walls, tin sheet roof and concrete floor. Thank God we have running water and electricity. I pay these services.  My job consists in sell fruits and vegetables as peaches, corn, chayotes and other. I ear 400.00Q = 51.74$ Per month. We raise some hens and one pig. My son Jonatan attend at school but is difficult to me cover his needs for lack of economic resources. We are a low-income family and some of our needs are groceries, school supplies and clothes. My house is 25 minutes to the feeding program and I get there walking. Thank you for take your time for read my history, I hope meet it interesting.

Many Blessings,

Manuela Amparo Ventura

Written by: Magnolia De Torres, AAC Secretary/Guatemala.