Having grown up in a harmonious environment, full of love and attention, made the young Marialis Rodríguez Peña a special being, who takes advantage of opportunities for improvement as a pedagogical assistant at the Home for Children without Family Protection No.3 in the city of Holguin, where she arrived when she was just three years old.
“When I was six years old, when I was early childhood, I was transferred to home number 4, in the Peralta neighborhood [in the city of Holguin] and then to number 1, on San Carlos Street, in which I completed my childhood years, spent adolescence and now I share space with other young people, and, although I am very grateful for the care with which they serve us, I feel a special attraction for this house where I work, because they were my first years receiving and sharing love.”
The director of the Home, Dagmara Quesada Torres, although she has been in this institution for two years, as she has been linked to the system since 1997, has enough experience to ensure that the children, adolescents and young people cared for in these centers feel like family, they love all the staff who care for them and that feeling is reciprocal.
That happens to Marialis and I understand it, because the grateful never forget those who gave themselves to their integral formation and education.
The twenty-year-old Marialis first graduated as a food processor and then passed her studies as a pedagogical assistant, which she performs with so much vocation and care, but her spirit of improvement continues and will not cease until she graduates in Preschool Education.
“It is the major that I like, because working with children is a passion that has grown in me and I am not going to waste the opportunities they give us to achieve whatever we set out to do.”
Marialis’ relationships with the six children of Home No. 3 are excellent and in the same way she relates to the 24 workers and specialists, who remain attentive to every detail of the little ones and reciprocate the gestures of love that they lavish on them.
The homes for children without family protection were created by Decree-Law No. 76 of 1984, so that they would not be left helpless with guarantees of a full life in society.
Throughout the country they are distributed by age, as some serve children from zero to six years old, others infants and adolescents from seven to 18 years old. When they reach the age of majority, those who are studying at university are assigned a temporary pension and when they form a couple they receive housing.
The homes for children without family protection receive donations from state entities and cooperatives, as well as from supportive friends in countries such as Canada.
Holguin, Havana and Villa Clara are the provinces with the largest number of facilities dedicated to such a noble cause, where social inclusion, the education of minors, the development of personality and values that will make them full people, committed to the development of the country, are guaranteed.
For these reasons, Marialis is grateful to the people who contributed to her human growth in the homes where she grew up and was formed.
By: Arnaldo Vargas Castro / Translated by Radio Angulo
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