With her seven-month-old calf in her armswhile under a hot sun he sells popsicles and chocolates, Rosa Annette Santos seek sustenance.
The 20-year-old, who avoids the risk of being run over by the recklessness of motorists and motorcyclists, spends much of the day in La Lira park in the capital, where she offers her products at the traffic lights of the central avenues Roberto Pastoriza and Abraham Lincoln.
She seeks not to be overcome by the need in which she is plunged with her mother, Angie Cacerestwo brothers and another 2-year-old son.
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This is part of their story and their cry is simple: get a decent job for her and her mother in San Cristóbal, rather than asking for help.
Rosa Annette has had to put on a breastplate for the contempt that many show himbut he also says that a good group of noble people stops and buys from him.
She narrates that she has experienced difficult episodes with the National Council for Children and Adolescents (Conani) and other entities, due to complaints from people who brand her as having mental problems or being drugged, but in the end they recognize that she is in a perfect state of health. health and that he only earns a living honestly, until he finds a better job for his family.
On her best candy-selling days, the young has managed to win 1,000 pesosbut invest about 500 pesos in transportation.
Many will remember Rosa Annette Santos for her meeting four years ago with the urban artist Mozart La Para at the Sovereign Awardswhere he went to meet him.
