Taking folks to Rocío Ruiz fell brief and for a 12 months he has been utilizing his taxi to carry enthusiasm all through the Alhama de Granada area. Every time Christmas approaches, she will get in contact with an NGO and collects garments and toys for them within the villages within the space. At that point, the one taxi in your complete area has just one vacation spot: to assist others.
“I needed to do one thing like this,” Rocío tells us, “and final 12 months I contacted the Mother Courage Association.” She was requested to gather toys for youngsters who had nothing and he or she set off. She distributed posters asserting the gathering and shared her contact data on social networks. “Lots of people known as me,” says Rocío, who for days was accumulating toys from nearly all cities.
Each cease of his solidarity taxi is a narrative of solidarity, however he’ll always remember the one he gave to a mom who had misplaced her daughter. “She gave me her toys in order that different youngsters may play with them,” remembers Rocío, who couldn’t assist crying that day, “she mentioned that this was one of the simplest ways to make use of it.”
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In whole, this 37-year-old taxi driver with two youngsters traveled greater than 2 hundred kilometers in a number of journeys together with her automotive loaded with presents for the little ones. Among them there have been additionally toys from Alejandro, her eldest son of 9 years. “She went out of her option to discover what she not used to have the ability to donate it,” says her mom.
This 12 months, Rocío has contacted a brand new NGO, the Asociación Calor y Café de Granada. “They have requested me for garments and toys for youngsters from the shelters,” says this taxi driver who lives in Arenas del Rey and who inherited the occupation from her father. “It was the primary taxi within the space, earlier than what there have been had been passenger automobiles,” she says, “vans that used to take residents to Granada.”
Since her father retired, she has been in control of connecting the small cities within the space, most with lower than 500 inhabitants, apart from Alhama, the place round 6,000 residents stay. Rocío’s taxi unites them by highway all 12 months spherical… and now at Christmas additionally via solidarity.