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Gema Gonzalez is 5
Gema was born on Christmas day and is 6 years old. Her mother worked in the dump as a child until she was 18. In 2003 A Heart to Love Ministry reached out to Gema’s mother at the dump. She was pregnant with Gema and ill and sleeping on the floor on cardboard. Gema's mom recently married and left Gema at the home in Cascabel.
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Amalia Varga is 6
She never knew her father and her mom struggled with mental problems working in the garbage dump for 12 hours a day. When she was found she had been sleeping on the floor of a humble house without a blanket with little clothes and was quite ill. She lives at the home in Cascabel.
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Rolando is 11
He arrived at the garbage dump when he was five looking for scraps of food. He ended up recycling aluminum for money to eat as his mother washed and ironed for people. He was found without clothing and undernourished during the 2003 outreach and is now a part of the group in Cascabel along with his 2 other brothers. |
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Erick Estrada is 8
Erick was abandoned when he was a year old. His grandparents took him in but worked at the garbage dump from 6 am to 6pm along with Erick. At their humble house Erick slept on the floor on cardboard. In 2003, when Erick was 4, a Heart to Love Ministry came to the dump and began to help him with food, clothing, shoes, medicine and school supplies and continues to do so as he is part of the family of Cascabel.
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Osiris and Osiel are 8 year old twins.
Their mother arrived at the garbage dump in 2001 to scavenge for metals and plastics to feed her kids. With an absent father these kids were sleeping in rice sacks on cardboard in a house without electricity or a bathroom with deteriorating health. They are now part of the Kids of Cascabel.
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Was not at the garbage dump but he was found living in a plastic shelter on a small lot when he was 8. William was eating one rice meal a day. In 2006 he met pastor Carlos who reached out to him and William joined the group at Cascabel and is going to school. His sister Suny just moved in.
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Gelin is 13.
He was brought to the garbage dump at age 4 to help his mother and father collect recyclable items. He spent most of his life there and there were nights that he slept on pieces of cardboard at the dump. His parents rented a small place that had no water or bathroom or beds. Gelin grew up without needed clothing or shoes. His mother left him when he was 3 and his father battled alcoholism for a long time and died by hangging in 2008.
When Gelin was found by A Heart To Love Ministry he was 7 years old and sick with anemia and parasites and not going to school. He is now with us in Cascabel and getting an education. Today the woman that took him in and his 2 brothers and sister, is the Cascabel cook. Gelin is one of the artists.
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Jorge Luis is 15.
His father looked for glass, metals and plastic at the Somoto garbage dump from 1992- 2006. He joined his father and was unable to get an education. In 2003 He was found by Pastor Carlos at the dump and was given food and clothing and school supplies. He left the dump when he was 8 and began going to school for the first time. He now lives full time at the home in Cascabel and has not returned to the dump. |
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