Alberta Quieju

(A-49) Status: Not Sponsored

Needs: water filter, pila, table, food

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UPDATE June 21, 2013: Alberta receives blankets and sheets!

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Alberta lives in her one room with her one son, who drinks away what he earns. 

These days, the only thing important to her is that she eats a tortilla with salt, since when there is no money there is no food.

A hundred bundles of sticks sit outside the house, around two broken concrete sinks: the former which fuel the fire for her stove and the latter which serve no one. 

Two beds take up most of the space in the house.

Two chairs sit there, denuded for lack of a table, surrounding a rooster on the floor that is the earth. 

She plans to kill it to eat it later, which is why it's tied to the chair. 

There's no sink, no shower in the house. There is no light and no running water.

They landlord will let her live within the mud walls and tin roof until she dies. As far as what her son will do then, God knows, she says.