The moving story of Mario, the grandfather who sells his granddaughters’ drawings at red lights to buy them food

The story moved thousands of people from different countries, as soon as it spread on social networks. happened in Mexico, in the region of León, Guanajato, gives a tatuador that trabaja en las calles (conocido como Alberto) descubrió has an abuelo that in el mismo sector is encontraba vendiendo a los transeúntes las pinturas y dibujos that realizan sus nietas de diez, doce y thirteen years.

The image Mario Arnulfo Muñoz, with the works of the girls in their hands, not only draws attention to the great dedication and initiative that the family has invested in this endeavor. Behind the photos that have already been shared thousands of times to the point of going viral, the problem Mario is going through with his granddaughters has emerged. Four years ago the daughters’ father passed away and since they only live with their mother on a meager pension (and money from other independent tasks is not enough for them to live on), the grandfather has decided to take to the streets to offer the works of his three loves.

Just around the corner Adolfo Lopez Mateos and pre, you can see how every day Mario he spends long hours showing conductors the artistic production of the day. “Inexpensive and cheap designs for ornaments,” says the man who put low prices on items, which are between a hundred and two hundred Mexican pesos. Unicorns, dreamcatchers, castles, dancers and various images that take you to a fantastic world appear painted on canvas and in watercolors; many of them with additions of shiny stones or pearls.

Asked about the reason for this activity, Mario She says that the little girls found themselves without a father and that the money was not enough for them: “My daughter Bérénice became a widow about 4 and a half years ago. My granddaughters were orphans, like my son, the eldest, painted, they learned with him, ”says the grandfather and adds that before he sold various products in the squares with his wife, but that the profit did not is more profitable to cover the expenses needed by her three granddaughters.

It is precisely for this reason that he explains that in reality all the profit he manages to derive from sale of designs, he gives them to the mothers of the girls so that they have enough to go to school, buy clothes and eat. Another challenge is purchasing new material to continue. For this reason, man uses every penny he earns from street sales.

Mario ensures that the girls “have fun, they take it as an activity they love and have done everything: horses, suns, landscapes, they like that.” That makes me happy”.

She also says her son-in-law, the father of the girls, was a hardworking man, but that fatality cut the lives of the whole family when he died of cardiac arrest.