My Story

He has one brother (Emmanuel) and four uncles (Cris, Hugo, Celso & Eliseo) who also attend the daycare. Ismael is shy and quiet, but he loves to play. He and his family have been through alot. His mom was a teenager when Ismael and his brother, Emmanuel were born. Ismael and his brother are a prouduct of rape from their mom’s step dad, the only grandfather that they know. When we first met this family, their mom was taken out of school to care for her brothers, forfeiting her education so her mom could work in the strawberry fields. This is one of the worst cases we have seen, and their makeshift shack, did not help the situation. We have tried to get his mom out of this abusive relationship with her step-dad, but she won’t get out. We even gave her a job, offered to find her a home, but she will not leave. She feels she is stuck. She has no education, and he is the father of her children. Please pray that Ismael’s mom would find the courage to break free from the abuser she is living with and that she would give her life to Jesus!