Silvia Sosa He does not see “the life of roses.” At 80 years, what he faces is a daily battle against the poverty and the loneliness. His shelter is a small wooden house, in the Batey Estrella sector, of The GuaricansSanto Domingo Norte municipality, covered with oxidized zinc plates and pieces of old sheets that barely try, without success, protect it from rain.
“It’s battle here, I don’t have help, I don’t have who speak for me,” The old woman expressed to today digital journalists during the special series «Today in your neighborhood“reflecting on his face the anguish that seizes it, while Wait a friendly hand to help her to cope with your burden.
«Look at my little house how it is, that I get wet. Zinc doesn’t work. I want a help, before from here from the earth. I want them to help me in my house, from God, that I have no one to help me, ”Silvia raised his heartbreaking plea.
The woman, deprived of a stove and a gas tank, prepares the foods donated by the neighbors about a improvised fireunder the hot sun and surrounded by a pile of waste, thus turning each meal at a risk.
«I’m burning my eyes… I want me to give me a help, even for me to be able to cook, so as not to do it outside, because when it rains it wets, ”he said.
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Also, Silvia Sosa narrates that in her humble home, heat suffocation And barely has A deteriorated latrine To pour your needs.
«Look at me how I am: Sweating with this heat. I have no fan.
A lady was that I was pleased to tell me: I don’t hurry that, I’m going to put a chin of light, because I see that she has no devices that pull or anything, ”he said.
A call to Betty Gerónimo
With the hope of being heard and the voice full of emotion, Mrs. Silvia extended her plea to Betty Gerónimo, mayor of the Santo Domingo Norte municipality, who confessed her deep desire to see her before she died.
«I want you to give me a Betty aid … I want to see Betty before I diebecause I go down almost, ”the lady implored.
The neighbors want to help her, but they can’t …
One of his neighbors, identified as Santa Margarita Carmona, also raised his voice, crying out to the authorities and any friends who come to the aid of Silvia.
«He is living here 56 years, he has no children, he has no one to help him, he simply lives from the neighbors and his card that the government gave him. We all ask for a help for her, to help her to fix her house, which is in poor condition, ”the local Batey Estrella, in the Guaricans cried.
Margarita also emphasizes that, despite her advanced age, Silvia Barre the courtyards of the houses of the other neighbors, in order to earn how little they give her and not feel a burden.
“Sometimes I have to help her, even she even sweeps the patio and one helps her with her 100 or 500 pesos, when there is, of course, because we are also poor and everyone has her commitment,” said the neighbor.
On his side, Estefanía Sosa added: «I don’t have who gives me either. The son of mine is that he gives me, when he has his little job; And of that, sometimes I tell him: have for coffee«.
In addition, Sosa said that, because of cooking in the stove, the old woman is already presenting lung problems.
«The stove is already hurting her in the lungs, as is an elder lady. The government that gives help to her for the house, the bathroom, which is very deteriorated, with a bad smell that is not enough, ”he begged.
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