"My children don't suffer anymore" -from hungry to healthy in the Dominican RepublicShare
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Last year, life was difficult for Lauteria, age 39, and her five children, from 11 to 22 years old.
“I felt sad because my children cried and they told me: ‘Mom, I’m hungry,’ and I didn’t have anything [to give them],” remembers Lauteria. “The children were only able to eat one time a day. If they ate lunch, they didn’t eat dinner."
“We ate mostly rice and beans. When we had a little bit of money, we would buy a piece of meat,” says Lauteria. The inadequate nutrition affected her children. “They had a lot of stomach aches and they would get dizzy.”
Lauteria is amazed at how much difference one year and a little bit of help has made in her family. Less than a year ago, Lauteria received seeds, through the World Vision gift catalog, to plant a family garden. She also received materials to build a fence to protect their plants.
“The fence is very important,” she says. “It keeps the chickens and goats from getting in. Before, I tried to make a garden, but the chickens got in and I worked for nothing.”
According to Lauteria, the combination of the seeds and fence-building supplies has given this family the ingredients for great change and transformation. “Before, I had to go to the market to buy the food. Now, I can save that money,” she says, with a proud smile. “Before, we ate meat maybe two times a week. Now, we can eat it three times. My children don’t suffer from diarrhea or vomiting anymore."
The garden has give then family the ability to have better nutrition, but it has also given Lauteria something even more special. It has given her back her sense of pride, knowing that she can care for her children. “Now, when my children say, ‘Mom, I’m hungry,’ I can come here, [to the garden], and I pick a little bit of corn and I cook it in a sauce,” she says, with a smile.
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Lauteria washes the vegetables, lettuce and tomatoes that she picked from their family garden to make a salad to accompany her children's lunch of rice and beans.
Lauteria proudly shows the garden that she has been able to plant thanks to the seeds and fencing she received from World Vision Gift Catalog.
Less than a year ago, Lauteria received seeds, through the World Vision gift catalog, to plant a family garden. She also received materials to build a fence to protect their plants. “The fence is very important,” she says. “It keeps the chickens and goats from getting in. Before, I tried to make a garden, but the chickens got in and I worked for nothing.”
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