Good man works hard to survive

[NewsWhore]

A human interest story from Santiago brings to light just how a poor man survives in the city without a real job. In the case of Angel Mendez, originally from Azua in the south of the Dominican Republic, El Nuevo Diario says that he went to Santiago to work at the local Metropolitan Transport Service (OMSA), but the job vanished when the government changed. In order to feed his family Mendez got a friend to lend him a vacant lot in the Cienfuegos section of the city, where he grows vegetables and raises pigs. Forced to get a horse to travel around and get discarded food scraps for his pigs, Mendez cited the increasing cost of public transport. Next to his very modest dwelling, there is another vacant lot where drivers of the "F" route in Santiago park their cars, and Mendez and his children and wife look after them. Private car owners also use the "security" service offered by the family. Because of the family's honesty and hospitality and congeniality, they are, according to the paper, much appreciated by the neighborhood. And so they survive.

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