Conchita

There's a very sad story behind this picture. I like to go downtown Juarez to photograph the people and stray dogs in the street, and that's where I found this lady. Her name is Conchita, she's 94 years old and homeless. She lived with her sons in a town near the city of Juarez, until a flash flood wiped her house and killed her seven children and their families. She's the sole survivor of that tragedy and now she lives off the charity of others, asking for your spare change to live off every day, sleeping where she can and eating whatever she can afford. She allowed me to publish this picture if I made her story know to the world, she asked me to remind everyone to be nice to your elders and treat them with respect, so we can teach our children to be nice to us when we get older.