Poverty

Overcoming poverty: the perseverance makes the success

My mother told me that her parents were very poor, but they worked so hard to support their seven children. When my mother was a little girl her parents had five older children and after my mom they had one more child, for that reason they had to earn much money because they had to support all their children; although, they did not have that amount of money. In Estado la Nacion says that in 1990 were 18% of poor people in Costa Rica, and in 2008 were 14,2% of poor people in the same place that means that before times were more poverty than nowadays. That statistics shows us that it could be possible that my mother´s family were one of that numbers of very poor people. My grandfather worked like a rural boy, and he could give the necessary food of his seven children. My grandmother also was a help in the family because she was a coffee picking girl, they worked together and won the confidence of the people who gave them poor but honest work, although they could not gave the complete study of their children they teached them to be honest and to work hard. Nowadays my grandmother has alimony and my grandfather still works like a rural boy because he was not accustomed to being out of work.

References:

Estado la Nacion (2008). Costa Rica, compendio estadistico. Retrieved September 12, 2010 of http://www.estadonacion.or.cr/index.php/estadisticas/costa-rica/compendio-estadistico.