Friends' Stories

Huevito’s Story
The soup kitchen called “Los Pajaritos” in Mendoza, Argentina assists several very poor families. Among them there is one with ten children, one of whom is Huevito.

When this soup kitchen begun to operate, there was a little boy of approximately 2 years of age, very short for his age, who would come always first to help to unload the groceries. He was very interested in the eggs packs and he always managed to get an egg for himself and give it to his mother so she would cook it for him later. Because of this habit, everybody started to call him “Huevito” (little egg).

Huevito’s father works in the garbage disposal industry and loves his children, but he doesn’t really know how to educate them, being violent at times. His mother, on the contrary, is very protective but is overwhelmed by the adverse circumstances she has to deal with.

In this family of twelve, two of the children are already married and have several kids of their own. They all live in Huevito’s parents’ home and all go to Los Pajaritos for their meals.

Huevito’s sisters attend regular school and right after it, they go to Los Pajaritos which has become a second home for them. They learn there many things , from moral values to manners which allows them to have a good performance at school. They like to cooperate with the soup kitchen chores when asked.

Huevito and his sisters are nice and intelligent kids who deserve the opportunity of having a better life, with their own effort.

Many families as Huevito’s suffer from the ignorance that extreme poverty brings. Los Pajaritos assists these children not only by providing them with meals or food but also by making possible for them an adequate physical, intellectual and spiritual development. Many kids came to Los Pajaritos when they were very little and now they are able to understand the importance of this human development.

Huevito knows already how to read and has promised to write a letter to the ladies of the Ivy Inter-American Foundation thanking them for their help.