Rosa Amalia Flores De Leon

26 years old / seller

Rosa prepares all the food that she will sell at home, she prepares atole, cassava, fruits, tamales. She goes out to sell at the community. During the morning she sells the fruits and in the afternoon the typical dishes of El Salvador. Rosa has been living in the same house for about months, the house where they live it's owned by her sister in law in the mean time they get their own place to live. She will live with her 3 children and her husband Jose (he was not at home at the moment of the interview).

Maria del Carmen de Leon Flores

9 years old / 3rd grader / Rosa’s daughter

She enjoys going to school to study, her favorite subject is social studies. She would like to be a doctor.

Jose Francisco de Leon Flores

7 years old / 1st grader / Rosa’s son

Once he grows up, he would like to be a police officer.

Gisella Beatriz de Leon Flores

4 years old / Rosa’s daughter

She spends her day playing with her siblings.  


“I want to say thank you for this big blessing, we don’t usually have the money to afford to build, now my children will have a better place to live.