Editor’s note: This article was first published in May 2012. This news item is from that month, with the reference to two days ago. The article does not say whether the mother was found or whether the businessman’s offer went ahead.
Two days ago, a baby about six hours old, still with her umbilical cord attached, was found at the door of a nursery school in the town of El Ejido, Almería (Spain).
The baby had with her a note written by her mother explaining why she had abandoned her. Among the reasons, as you would expect, was that she could not look after her because she had no money. The child’s father had left the mother, and she is out of work, with no help, and so on.
The note read:
“Please take care of my baby. Don’t judge me, because this is the hardest thing I have ever done in my whole life.”
The police have been searching for the mother without success (we don’t know whether it is to help her or to prosecute her over the way the baby was abandoned). The thing is, someone else is looking for the mother for very different reasons. He is a businessman who is offering this woman a job and accommodation, and would pay (if the mother could not) for the girl’s entire education, all the way to university.
This businessman’s heart was broken (like that of many other people) when he put himself in the shoes of a woman who has to do the hardest thing a mother can do: give up a daughter she has carried inside her for nine months, and, hardest of all, do it for financial reasons.
It is news like this that, amid the chaos Spain is living through right now, reminds us that there are still people willing to give the best of themselves and help others. Not much more to say…
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