Esperanza Perez Aparicio migrated to Tijuana from Chiapas several years ago in search of job opportunities. Her husband passed away 3 years ago. She worked nights so that she could afford to send her youngest 9 year old daughter, Dulce, to school. Guillermina, her 15 year old daughter, wants to join the Navy. Both girls are doing well in their studies.
They lived in a typical scrap wood shack with a dirt floor and a rickety roof, unstable and invaded by insects and mice. We met them, saw their plight and laid a foundation slab to put them on the house-building waitlist.
In an update we are so very sad to report that Esperanza recently died of cancer and the girls are being taken care of by an Aunt who now lives with them. Other family members pitch in to assist.
Esperanza had told us: “If you support us with a house we will be very grateful because it would be a great help for me and my daughters.”
We are so very sad that Project Mercy did not know in time of the situation in order to build a home prior to her passing. But this past weekend Mike Meziere, his friends and family, joined by members of the Project Mercy Team in Mexico, built a new home and provided gifts for the two girls and their Aunt.
We are so grateful to Mike and everyone for stepping forward at very short notice and making Esperanza’s dream come true – In her own words: “Receiving a decent house will allow my family to have a better quality of life, to be safer and more comfortable….Thank you very much.”
