Kathy wants to go to college in Santa Cruz but the government will not recognize her high school diploma from Spain. They will only credit her for two years so she is enrolled as a junior in our school to get a Bolivian diploma. Her mother remained in Spain working and is sending money to finish building a house. So Kathy would not be alone the mother brought her aunt and her children in from the country to stay with her. The aunt’s 26 year old son was working on someone’s farm and got sick, so they brought him into town. No one was home so they left him on the floor of the patio. The family found him and took him to the hospital where he died.
Now we get involved. The aunt didn’t know what to do; so all the responsibility fell on 17 old Kathy. She showed up at school Monday morning asking for help as she didn’t know what to do either. Oswaldo and I spent the morning, arranging for a casket, getting a death certificate, getting permission from the authorities to bury him, and finding a place to bury him. That involved going out into the country to find a grandmother who knew where the family had a burial plot at the cemetery.
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