Economic and health deficiencies are the key words to define the situation of the Frias Pimentel family, in it brooklyn neighborhood of Villa AltagraciaSan Cristóbal province, made up of a mother with dementia, an adult son, who must be bathed and fed, and a brother with glaucoma.
King Frias He is the oldest, he is 60 years old and for months he has been prostrate in an old chair that supports his skeletal body from which he barely moves his eyes and mouth, but slowly. He doesn’t speak, he doesn’t eat alone and he gets his medicines and food from the charity of noble hearts.
A thrombosis has kept him in these conditions and thanks to the support of his two brothers he is alive. He lives with his mother, an elderly woman of Haitian origin, under a metallic warehouse, which was once one of the warehouses of the disappeared ingenuity Catareyof Villa Altagracia.
The mother seems not to be in this world. Remains immobile with fixed gaze on one point due to dementia, according to Roberto Pimentelanother of his three children who, despite his low vision problem due to glaucoma, is in charge, together with his other brother, of bathing and feeding Reyito.
“I live in the capital and I come, I wash my mother and Reyito’s clothes, I bathe him and I feed him, I don’t leave them alone, I don’t abandon them like some families do, my heart doesn’t give for that,” Roberto says as he feeds his brother a mashed potato as if he were a one-year-old child.
The poverty It is obvious in the little room with two small rooms: one occupied by the mother and the other Reyito. Both sleep in beds with holes, where the wires are felt and the hygiene conditions are precarious.
“Our situation is very bad, the house has a lot of leaks and we don’t have money to fix it, the floor doesn’t work, look how my brother is sleeping and how he’s left after the thrombosis,” he says.
Roberto says that he is a man with a good heart, that he loves his brother and his mother and that, even if he has to expose himself, when traveling from the Capital to Villa AltagraciaHe does it for love. He hardly sees due to glaucoma and in order to cross the Duarte Highway he has to ask for help, because his vision is as poor as the situation of his relatives.
Roberto earns his living with “fluke”. Sometimes they look for them to “calm down” or do surveillance work in condominiums and private homes, “but sometimes nothing appears.” Many times she feels powerless because she doesn’t have the economic conditions to buy her mother and brother medicines, but she affirms that there are always generous hands that give her some money to buy medicines.
His other brother works, but he does not earn enough to provide for his mother and brother with what they need, and Reyito has only one son who lives in the Capital.
“My mother suffers from head problems, she has a brain problem, we are bad, very bad, we don’t have to help her. My brother needs pills so he doesn’t have a repeat thrombosis, he also needs a wheelchair, we need a lot of things… beds for the two of them, look how they sleep”, he says while showing the poor condition of one of the beds.
“I call on the President, that I voted for him, to help me, to look at how we are living, to please give us a little hand, help,” Roberto expresses hope as he continues to feed his older brother.
Any collaboration with this family can be done by calling Reyito’s brother, Juan Simón at: 849 701-0014.
