Thank you from the bottom of our hearts

Since 05-10-06

From: Eva Albavera Viveros [mailto:tecalpulco@artcamp.com.mx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 7:52 AM
To: ss349@diodon349.com
Subject: thank you from the bottom of our hearts

Dear Jim

Hello! We hope that you are well in health & spirit!

We want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for acknowledging us as persons, we are so grateful that you recognize us for who we are, village women of Mexico.

We, the women in Mexico, are living under very depressed conditions for a long time.

Most of the man in the villages have gone to the United States to work there
and have left the women here with the children. At the beginning they were sending money but that was every 6 months or every year, and they weren’t always sending us enough to cover our basic needs. Frequently, these men drop out of our sight all-together.

We are campesinas, we have our cornfields and do work them, but we have learned that in modern times we can’t live off of them. We have to buy cooking gas, daily food, shoes for the children, school materials, etc. Now that the kids went into school again we barely got enough money to buy their uniforms and we are now working hard to pay the school every month and saving money to buy the rest of the materials that they need.

It is impossible to live like this, yet we have no choice except to survive,
even though we are inside a pattern where everything is costly.

We never asked anything from you, still we want to ask you to close the Mexico border to illegal migration because our men go north to get money and they remain up there sometimes with another woman and we don’t like it; we want our men to be deported since they are breaking the laws. Please isn’t there a way to have these men deported back to their homes and families in Mexico? That would be the best to happen for us! because we need their help in sanding and polishing the jewelry we have been producing.

Thank you, thank you so much in the name of the Rural Artisans Women of Taxco!

Sincerely
Tamara Hernandez Danel
ARTCAMP SC de RL
“Artesanas Campesinas”

http://www.artcamp.com.mx/venga/ 
click on this link

Best wishes, friends, from Mexico!

Contact: Eva Albavera Viveros
ealbavera@yahoo.com.mx

Telefonos:
001 762 62 73481
001 762 62 22758