This is the testimony of one Colombian children benefited with the Proniño program by Telefonica Foundation. This encourages the CJCF (Corporación Juntos Construyendo Futuro) each day to keep transforming the future of children. In his words we find sorrow for the situations he lived in the past, but now he is happy to find a place where he could learn many things that allow him to live better his childhood.
“I started working when I was 9 years old, I helped my parents with the household expenses selling candy in the streets and with the earnings during the weekend, I bought my things.I felt really bad because on the street I bumped into bad people who “bothered me” for being a boy and sometimes I did not sell everything; at the beginning I was happy to work with my dad because I was more time with him, but then I got bored and what I wanted was to play with other kids who lived near to my house and to go to school without being tired because of sun and rain, which made me get a cold and it was difficult to breath. My grandmother says that's why. I should be in sixth grade of high school now, but when I was in third grade I was moved out from school because at home there was no money and nothing to eat. At school I was not doing very well because I got distracted too fast and I felt shame of going to the board for fear of being wrong. Now I am 12 years old and since I entered the Proniño program I don’t work anymore, I like it because we take trips. I´m in the dance club and I practice Capoeira, and also I had never played a drum and learned to play it here. "
Maikol Andrés Vizcaino. 12 years old beneficiary from Barranquilla, Colombia. (Taken from Newsletter ONE CJCF 2011)
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