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Cuban and her 10-year-old nephew ask for money on the street to eat: "Life is hard"

Both walk almost three kilometers daily to ask for alms. "Sometimes after walking so much, with a lot of sun, they haven't given us anything and that day we are hungrier," she said.

Anciana y su sobrino pidiendo dinero en la calle para comer © Captura de video de YouTube de CubaNet
Old woman and her nephew asking for money on the street to eat Photo © YouTube video capture from CubaNet

ACuban woman and her 10-year-old nephew ask for money on the streets from Holguín to be able to eat.

Both walk almost three kilometers daily from where they live to the center of the city, because there is supposedly a greater chance of someone helping them there.

His case was revealed by the agencyCubaNet.

"We live far away. We don't get anything there because it is a very poor neighborhood and there are people who are worse off than us. We come to the city because we have more possibilities," he said.María Lourdes Nodarse Frómeta.

"Sometimes after walking so much, with a lot of sun, they haven't given us anything and that day we are hungrier," he added.

The old woman reported that the child oftenhas to miss school to go out to look for money or food. However, she was proud of how her fourth grade studies went. "He is intelligent and has not disapproved," he stressed.

An old woman and a child sit on the Holguín boulevard to do the math to see how much money they have raised and what they can buy.

The day they were seen byCubaNet They wanted to buy corn flour for lunch, but they didn't have enough money: they were short 70 pesos.

"Flour is 105 pesos per pound and it's not enough for us either," he said.

After 12:00 noon and without either of them having eaten anything, the old woman denounced the instability in the sale of bread and coffee from the quota, which worsens her situation.

"They haven't sold bread for four days. The child has breakfast with whatever appears. Sometimes he has breakfast with a sip of coffee, but not always, when it appears. In the warehouse they haven't sold coffee either, and now in the neighborhood there is no Not even a can of coffee that people on the street sell for 80 pesos. Life is hard," he concluded.

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