IMPACT NOVEMBER 2014
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FAMILY RAISES TURKEYS TO PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE
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ratitude. It’s what Thanksgiving is
“Our family was left without a source of
all about, and it’s what one mom,
income,” Doña Jesus said. “Things were so
Doña Jesus, expresses when she talks
bad we were only able to eat once a day. “My husband said, ‘We have to do
about how her son’s sponsorship helped restore her fami-
something,
ly’s livelihood.
“Things were so bad we were only able to eat once a day.“
don’t we raise tur-
— DOÑA JESUS, MOTHER OF DIEGO
idea, but he was
Doña Jesus said she started raising turkeys at her home in Guate-
keys?’ I don’t know where he got this right. We had to do something.”
mala seven years
Doña Jesus tends to her turkeys.
why
ago “out of the need to feed my children.”
Doña Jesus sold a small piece of land
Her husband was a mason and couldn’t
her father had given her. She used the
work after a health condition left him
money to get medical treatment for her (continued)
without the use of one arm.
INTRODUCING THE UNBOUND STORE
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