By Anna Claudia Pollina | IBO Italia Project coordinator
Dear Global Giving's friends,
a few days ago we went to attend Señora Julia, a sweet grandmother of 8 grandchildren and we don't know how many years she has got. She belongs to Saraguro, one of the 18 native population living in Ecuador and officially accepted by Consejo Nacional de Desarollo de las Nacionalidades y Pueblos del Ecuador. The mains characteristics of this population are their necklaces and their arms with many coulorated grains, the black hat with a singular bowler form, the dresses with manual embroidery and their hair that they comb in a long plait. This is the typical hair-style for women and men, too.
A short time ago, Senora Julia, is left a widow. Her husband was Don Angel, and inside the pueblo everybody thought that he was a great farmer and all the people knew that all this family lived thanks Don Angel's work, specially since Señora Julia lost her sight.
Now she isn't yet self-sufficient and she can't yet trust on her husband's help, so she will be forced to move to another house, near the son's house. In this way Señora Julia can be helped for her daily needs by her daughter in law and by her grandchildren.
As you can see with your eyes, the house needs restructurings. In the kitchen, in fact, there are a wall and a part of the root that are broken.
It doesn't take much to help our friend Julia and if you do it, you will help her grandchildren too so they will drink the famous marzamorra* once more time.
*Marzamorra is a traditional local dish of the Andean zone. It is a dessert of native origin and it is composed of white corn and sugar and it has an hight nutritional count.
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