A mother’s painful message to her son’s teacher: “I don’t want to wake him up early so he won’t be hungry”

A teacher published in the social networks the Ripper message sent by the mother of one of his students to explain the reasons for the absence of his son to the virtual classroom it was about to begin. Within minutes, the text went viral and shook a whole country.

With much pain, Maria Pilar Nunez, who lives with her son in the Chilean town of Rancagua, wrote to him for WhatsApp to the teacher, Tania Silvaa few minutes before the start of the class, explain that the child will not be able to participate.

The reason was in the serious economic difficulties that the family was going through. The woman was desperate because I didn’t have to give him a plate of food breakfast for breakfast. “You won’t be able to log in for something personal,” Núñez began in the post the teacher captured and her sister then shared on social media. The 29 year old mom explained that I was ashamed for saying what was going on: “I’m sorry to tell you, but I’ll tell you so you don’t think you were lazy“.

In the text, he assured that he did not have “bread for breakfast, and for lunch I just have to make rice, alone.” So, so he’s not hungry, I don’t want to wake him up early“.

Finally, the woman promised that once the child got up, I would do all the work and send the material to the teacher. “I would appreciate your understanding and if you could send me what you are doing to do it as soon as I wake up and send you a picture of the tasks,” Núñez wrote.

After the teacher’s sister posted what happened on her account Twitter, thousands of supporting comments and a huge wave of solidarity has been generated. Also, the student’s mother received financial aid hundreds of foreigners who were moved by his dire situation.

“Hello, yesterday was a super intense day with the response to this tweet. The family received a lot of help, there are still people asking and I want to tell them that they they received merchandise for several weeks. Let’s continue to help others, there are more people in the same situation, ”said the teacher’s sister.

In dialogue with the channel T13, Núñez told: “I didn’t have to give him breakfast, and so he wouldn’t be hungry in class, I didn’t wake him up ”.

The teacher, who ended up changing this family’s difficult present, said she read the message and couldn’t stop thinking about the story. “It gave me enormous anguishToo bad … I kept thinking about it as I got ready for the class, ”said Silva.

Social media did the rest of the homework. Money and many food items have arrived, and the local government also emerged that covered it three months rent from the family home. “Tania has won all the sky. It helped me a lotThey gave me money and goods, ”the boy’s mother said, moved.

Also spoke the father, who he had lost his job due to the coronavirus pandemic. “I did not expect it, I did not understand anything,” says the man who, overnight, began to see all the help arriving in large quantities.

Once the case goes viral, the intention is to work together so that the family can a sustainable income over time; for example, so that they could take over a business that they had started printing photographs, which they had to give up because they did not have the technology to do it with the necessary quality.

Thanks to the anonymous help of thousands of people, they themselves want to help others: Núñez announced that those in need can contact her to share something of all they have received.

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