Rosa and Bernarda are two sister from La Patrona, one of the most poor places in Mexico. Twenty years ago, they were with their purchase waiting for the train to pass to cross the railroad way to their home. Then, when the train pass, they saw that there were people hanging and climbed on the roof wagon shouting and asking them something to eat or drink.
These poeple were the first inmigrants who climbed the wagons of a for try to cross the border and enter in the USA. Every day, hundreds of inmigrants of Mexico, set off one of the most dangerous journeys: cross Mexico for try to arrive to North America with the hope of have a better life, and most of them decide to do this trip hanging in the wagons of the train well know as "The Beast" or "The train of death" since this inmigrants run the risk of fall down of the train, they may suffer an amputation and also, men, women and childrends travelling in this way are constanly battered, kidnapped and even raped by criminal groups. Even that, every day, up to 500 inmigrants, go over 3.000 km in this conditions and with all this risks.
When the sisters saw this people asking for something to eat or drink, they felt bound to give them the food that they have just buy. Since then, all the days untill now the mother and the siblings of this family cooked things like rice, beans,... and put it in bags and boxes together with water and give it to the people who travel in this train.
With the time, this women have become a group know as "Las Patronas" formed by 14 women of the same village that every day, so there isn't a day that there aren't poeple hangig on the train, coocked almost 15 kg of food (each one) for this thousands of inmigrants. Now, they recive food from some neighbourts and organitzacions but at the beggining, they have to cook and give the food from her own houses.
At first, her work was a little improvisate but now, they assigned task and responsabilities between them: they start the work early in the morning and cooked twice daily. When they hear the train noise, they aproach to the railroad with wheelbarrows full of bags and boxes with food and water and, with the help of some volunteers, they share out it between the inmigrants. For make sure that the inmigrants take the food, they tie a rope to the bags and they pull it into the wagons: they have less than 15 minutes for devide morethan 200 bags!
I think that these women have become a symnbol of solidarity, in fact, they have recived several awards from fundation and organitzacions of Human Rights and this story has also been move to documentary films. This kind of things show us that it isn't necessary have a lot of money for try to change the world: these women live in one of the most poor areas of Mexico and even so, they probably give the only food that these inmigrants would eat in all the journey aboard the train, so you are wrong if you think you can't change the world.
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