“When I grow-up, I want to be a cleaning lady.”
Ana Isabel is 6 years old and lives with her family in Villa España neighborhood, a settlement of people displaced by violence, north of Quibdo, in the department of Choco, Colombia.
Her friends call her La Muñe. She likes very much to dance and to play with her brother Nazario and some other children in the neighborhood.
Ana Isabel says that, when she grows up, she wants to work as a maid, because, according to her, women that cook and clean houses are the only ones that can feed their children. Her family has so many needs that frequently her parents do not have the means to feed her and her three brothers every day.
Thanks to WFP support, the school in her neighborhood provides lunch to all children that attend classes. This encourages them to keep going to school, and it is also a way to discourage their parents to take their children out of school to have them go look for their daily bread.
If Ana Isabel keeps going to school, she will have the chance to have different dreams and wishes; and maybe one day her dreams will come true.
