La señora Ameliè sentada en su mecedora una tarde de un domingo mientras tomaba su té recordaba su infancia y como llegó a donde estuvo de adulta y todo el beneficio que ha dado a diferentes casas de huérfanos.

Recordando su infancia el día que llegó a aquél lugar después que ocurrió ese fatídico accidente donde perdió a su familia. Nadie la buscó y terminó allí en esa casa.

Al principio para ella todo era tenebroso ya que venía de una familia donde tenía sus comodidades y la escuela donde asistía tenía muchas amigas, amigas que aún no sabe si algún día lo fueron.

Al pasar los días se fue acostumbrando a la rutica de esa casa, desayuno, escuela, almuerzo, escuela, cena y un conjunto de actividades para enseñarles para cuando tengan que abandonar la casa. Las que hacían de madres sustitutas algunas duras y otras maternales, a Ameliè le tocó una maternal que la hacía recordar a su madre.

Siempre recibían donaciones de diferentes empresas, igual a veces era duro porque no llegaban a tiempo. Una vez era tanta la necesidad que descubrimos que la carne en tiras era de cáscaras de bananas con todos los aliños que le colocaban para que pareciera carne de verdad, esta comida estuvo acompañada de repollo salcochado solo con un poco de sal , que hasta decidimos dar eso preparado al hombre barbudo que todas las noches hurgaba en los tambores de basura, hoy si se dio un banquete porque le colocamos la comida servida en platos para que no se confundiera con las cosas que eran para desperdicio.

Todas las niñas vimos como el hombre barbudo sonreía cuando degustaba de ese plato que a nosotras nos prepararon porque aún no llegaban los alimentos destinados para la semana.

Ameliè pensaba cuando sea dueña de empresas ningún niño o niña de esta casa hogar le faltará una comida.

Ameliè cumplió 18 años en en la casa hogar , un día los abogados de su papá dieron con ella para hacerle saber la herencia que sus padres le habían dejado...ella sorprendida entendía lo que le explicaban porque Ameliè siempre se destaco en las clases y el mundo empresarial le gustaba mucho, sus lecturas y libros que conseguía era sobre los temas empresariales.

Ameliè cumplió su promesa, dejó la casa hogar , se despidió con mucho beneplácito y agradecida con todas en especial con quien la atendió como si fuera su madre. Mejoró muchos servicios en ella y nunca los olvidó siempre estuvo al tanto de ellas y los nuevos niños que llegaban allí.

Ese domingo, tarde del té recordaba cada momento que vivió luego de salir de allí pensando en los aprendizajes que le dejaron las experiencias que allí vivió, sonrió cuando recordó al hombre barbudo que comía con tanto gusto la carne de cáscara de banana y repollo.

Mrs. Ameliè sat in her rocking chair on a Sunday afternoon while sipping her tea, remembering her childhood and how she got to where she was as an adult and all the benefit she has given to different orphanages.

Remembering her childhood the day she arrived at that place after that fateful accident where she lost her family. Nobody looked for her and she ended up there in that house.

At the beginning everything was scary for her because she came from a family where she had her comforts and the school where she attended had many friends, friends that she still doesn't know if they ever were.

As the days went by she got used to the routine of that house, breakfast, school, lunch, school, dinner and a set of activities to teach them for when they had to leave home. Those who acted as surrogate mothers, some of them hard and others maternal, Ameliè had a maternal mother who reminded her of her mother.

They always received donations from different companies, but sometimes it was hard because they didn't arrive on time. Once the need was so great that we discovered that the meat in strips was made from banana peels with all the seasoning that they put on it to make it look like real meat, this meal was accompanied by sautéed cabbage with just a little salt, we even decided to give this prepared food to the bearded man who every night rummaged through the rubbish drums, today he did have a feast because we put the food served on plates so that he wouldn't get confused with the things that were to be thrown away.

All the girls watched as the bearded man smiled as he tasted the food that was prepared for us because the food for the week had not yet arrived.

Ameliè thought that when she becomes a business owner, no child in this home will be without a meal.

Ameliè turned 18 years old in the home, one day her father's lawyers came to her to tell her about the inheritance that her parents had left her...she was surprised to understand what they were explaining to her because Ameliè always excelled in her classes and she liked the business world very much, her readings and books that she got were about business topics.

Ameliè fulfilled her promise, left the home, said goodbye with great pleasure and was grateful to everyone, especially to the one who took care of her as if she were her mother. She improved many services there and never forgot them, she was always aware of them and the new children who arrived there.

That Sunday afternoon tea she remembered every moment she lived after leaving there thinking about the lessons she learned from her experiences there, she smiled when she remembered the bearded man who ate the banana peel meat and cabbage with so much pleasure.