Poor Child

When children are alone they become vulnerable to the world. Many things can happen if they don’t have their parents who can take care of them.  Children become abuse and discriminated.

I knew a child who his name was Tito, he was a hard worked at the age of 12. He had to wake up very early in the morning. He planted beans, corn, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers. Tito had to be the whole day in the grove. The seven day a week. At the nights when he got home, he was tired, and hungry. The people who live in the house didn’t give him food, just water. He had to wash his clothes, buy his food, even though he doesn’t have money.  They didn’t pay him any of his work and didn’t buy him clothes, shoes, and personal things. Clean the house during his free time was other work, he couldn’t rest because they get mad at him and they were yelling at him. Tito had to obey everything they tell him because their parents weren’t with him.  Moreover, Tito was accused or robbery, he saw scare of what was going on.

One day I saw him walking trough the park, he was carried his backpack. I run when I saw him because he looks sad and I wanted to know he was going to be ok. He told what had happen to him. He told me “I was like slave on that house, I work six years, and they didn’t paid me anything. They didn’t appreciate my work and wanted everything on their house and grove worked well.” Also, he said that he was under treat if was going to leave the house. Tito didn’t care about what they told him and he left the house. The sad thing was that his uncles and her grandmother were the people who were treating him bad. When I hear that I was angry because his own family didn’t care him and put him working like a slave. I recommended him with one of the persons who need people for work, while he was living in my house. After a month he receive a call from work but the offer was in his country, the offer was in the city. The manager need people who wanted to be gardener, and he was agreed with it. He moved from my house and went San Jose. Later, like in a year he was back to visit us, he was very happy and looking pretty good. The people who hired him were nice to him and pay the hours that he worked. He looks comfortable.

Furthermore, he told me “I learned the good things when people care about me. I learned that I felt miserable when I was working for nothing. My self esteem is high after many years of sadness. I had a place where to live my own things and nobody yell at me. Outside of the world when you are alone the people are rude and don’t thing about your feelings.”