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But I keep working.
I keep working from 7 o'clock in the night
until 1 or 2 in the morning.
Honestly, I didn't like the cut and the construction.
I never liked the seam.
I never liked it.
But I think life taught me to mature.
I work to bring my children forward.
So I want to have my own workshop,
to sell my things.
I see the Saturdays in San Roque.
My work is hard because I have to travel
all over the market to sell my things.
I start from 6 in the morning on Sundays.
I start from 7 on Saturdays.
But since I don't have anyone to leave my children with,
I can't keep selling them for a long time.
Because I don't like to expose them to my children.
I prefer them to stay at home.
But I come back soon.
I've heard many things.
That there are children from the ladies
who sell in the market.
That they have stolen things and infinity of things.
Unsafe.
I don't want that for my children.
And I want that, to bring them forward.
And that they don't suffer like I did.
I worked for 8 years.
I worked in a dining room.
But I didn't like that.
I liked studying.
I had a hard childhood.
My dad was super hard on me.
And I think that made me stronger.
And he came forward.
I wanted to get over it.
To come forward.
And then I already talked to my dad.
I told him that I needed to study.
And that I didn't want to work.
And that I wanted to get over it.
So my dad did everything possible
for me to join Senid.
In the group, Senid mainly works with
the low economic resources.
Mostly the girls
also go through family problems.
And here they are given love and protection.
Silvia Margarita was 15 years old at that time.
She was a very studious girl.
But she didn't smile.
She didn't smile.
But despite that, she studied.
She was very responsible in her studies.
I left Senid.
I graduated.
And I went to study.
To come forward, I went to study in a school
at night.
At that time, I worked in the kitchen.
I studied and worked.
And well, as time went by,
I got sick.
Because it was super hard.
I cooked every day.
Every afternoon.
And I got sick from the kidneys.
And for a little while, I almost died.
I tell you those experiences.
And I always tell you that the greatest power is in one.
If I can, I can do great things.
But if I get obstacles, I can't do it.
But everything is in the strength, in the will of each one.
And mainly to Silvia Margarita.
She was my replacement.
When I had my maternity leave,
she was my replacement.
She supported the classes I gave.
And I managed to see her perform
in the practical field of the court.
But I've always liked to be a teacher.
Look, I feel super good.
Because, as I always told you,
I've always liked to teach.
And now I'm doing it.
I like to teach everything I know.
And I want all women to keep moving forward,
to follow my example.
Despite everything, I came forward.
So Neat works with the whole family.
So its emphasis has always been the girls.
You have to go out to work in the markets
and on the streets and things like that.
I work with the mothers
because I saw the mothers were sort of staying
in the same economic situation.
We find it quite difficult to work with a lot of women here
because of the short-term thinking.
I need to feed my children tonight.
Rather than let's make it professional,
let's make it work, and then we'll get a better income.
Silvia understands that.
And I think, you know, partly it's strength
that comes from themselves,
and partly it's their children.
It's the main motivating factor.
Just the women have had no opportunity, okay?
That, you know, as I've said,
so many of these women are so strong.
And they fight, and they keep on fighting,
and partly because they have no choice.
I earn my salary.
But that salary lasts three or four days
and I don't have anything left.
I have left everything for them.
One has to stop studying
to be able to keep my children.
He tells me that he wants to be a doctor
and that when I'm older, he wants to cure me.
Yes, then he wants to be dependent on me
just like I am with him now.
Silvia is very committed.
I think she has an inner strength.
She's very calm outwardly.
And I think she's always thinking about her family
and how she can progress.
She's not just living in the present.
She is thinking about the future.
My children are everything to me.
He is the most intelligent, just like my son.
I am extremely proud of my son and of my daughter.
I want them to have a very happy life.
I thank everyone in the United States
for opening the doors to me, especially to my licensed aunt.
I am very grateful to her
because she opened the doors to me.
I am very grateful that she has me as a model
and in the same way she is a person of great value to me.
I have always motivated my students
that they don't care about poverty.
They don't care about the desire that one has to go forward.
They want to break barriers, obstacles.
If they gave me the opportunity to leave the country with my children,
I would look at the opportunity.
It would be anywhere, but everything with my children.
