Fernando Arroyo recalls that despite being “invisible homeless” when he, his mother, and little brother first came to Waco from Mexico, they would go “from house to house to house to house . . . from family to friends”, showcasing the desire to help one another. Robert Aguilar, when commenting on his inspiration for helping others, cites his mother who would put up “close people, relatives, distant relatives, or sometimes strangers”, who would stay “months on end” without paying rent – having “at least” ten different families living under their roof at any given time. Tenderly remembering her childhood Saturday afternoons, where the men get off a half-day, Blasa Rodriguez says that her and her family would “all sit, all the children, all the grownups, and we would just be passing these bowls of food around . . . there was a lot of discussion going on”: a reprise from the long, hard days of grueling
Fernando Arroyo recalls that despite being “invisible homeless” when he, his mother, and little brother first came to Waco from Mexico, they would go “from house to house to house to house . . . from family to friends”, showcasing the desire to help one another. Robert Aguilar, when commenting on his inspiration for helping others, cites his mother who would put up “close people, relatives, distant relatives, or sometimes strangers”, who would stay “months on end” without paying rent – having “at least” ten different families living under their roof at any given time. Tenderly remembering her childhood Saturday afternoons, where the men get off a half-day, Blasa Rodriguez says that her and her family would “all sit, all the children, all the grownups, and we would just be passing these bowls of food around . . . there was a lot of discussion going on”: a reprise from the long, hard days of grueling