Maria Reyna Cruz Tolentino ' heroe 's

because they represent the objective of our work, We´re back here at Time for Heroes, time for love. Time for self understanding and a time to commit ourselves to the knowledge, that every Mexican has a heart which is ready to help, and because more of us are good. Love walks freely through the streets and is breathed and felt everywhere. Luz Maria and Reyna Maria know this, who for years have dedicated their hearts and souls, to offer a home for little girls, boys and adolescents, who haven´t had the good fortune of having one. Let´s hear their story. The desire to rescue the hundreds of girls and boys who pass their days between sidewalks, avenues and stoplights, made Luz Maria Hernandez and Reyna Maria Cruz orient their lives around offering these little ones the warm home that they´ve never had, often as a result of the domestic violence to which many have been subject. Since 1999, the Home of Our Good Mother has worked for the physical, intellectual and spiritual development of girls and boys, who have known the pain of abandonment and rejection from an early age, and that today, thanks to the enormous hearts of two tireless women, has been turned from a cry in the abyss, into a breath of life, from a slap to the face, to an unforgettable hug, and from a bed wet from tears, to the protecting embrace of a best friend, a teddy bear. Today these walls built with love and commitment, shelter 45 boys, girls and adolescents, who embrace the opportunity to grow in a healthy and harmonious environment, which even if not exactly their home, offers them the security and access to a life of dignity that the streets never offered. Luz Maria and Reyna walk among us with a smile hidden in their hearts, knowing that they nourish the grandiose dreams of 45 souls, who desire love and protection, with only a smile in return, from bottom of their innocent hearts. Please give a warm welcome to Luz Maria and Reyna Maria. These are our heroes. Our heroes. I want you tell me how you developed your integral approach. This is something we developed because the children come from disintegrated backgrounds, separating them from their mothers or from each other, as do other institutions dedicated to working with just girls or only boys, we decided to receive the entire family. Mothers love their children but they have to provide them with food, and so they have to work and they´re unable to look after them as a result. For this reason we dreamed of founding a home, and that´s why we called it a Home, a home where children can be loved, comforted, educated, and molded, and where their mothers form part of the family. We are a family and that´s what I always tell them. families stay together through good and bad. Reyna, you lost your eyesight for two months when you were very young, it must have been madness and incomprehensible to a young girl, what is that happened to you at that time? Well, I was an adolescent when all of this happened to me… I was 16, I´m from the state of Oaxaca, from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, from Sanitago Ixtalepec from where I´m proudly from, and for that reason I had to leave my home and community and come here to the city of Mexico to receive treatment. That’s when I discovered I had a disease which affects my arteries, and that made my blood pressure rise and caused me to lose my sight. Luz Maria and Reyna Maria we have here two people who have come to give witness, to the importance of what you both do and what you deliver, they are, they are Imelda and Marcos. How did you find out about this Home and why did you make the decision to live there? More than I anything I didn´t want to be homeless with my children, and I didn´t want them to grow up in the street. I wanted to work at the same time, but I felt like I couldn´t find a place or space, I found a friend who helped me and I began to look for a place, and she told me that the best thing I could do would be to look for a house, where my children would be protected from the street and bad people, and that way I´d be able to rise above my situation. And so I decided even though it wasn´t easy for me to leave my children, it felt bad to me, ugly and sad, and some people told me that I was a bad mother, that I was going to lock my children away and abandon them. Oscar do you remember those tears and separation from your mother? Yes I remember very well. They were very difficult moments for me. And now I understand for my mother as well, because it´s something that a mother never wants to have to do. A mother wants to be with her children and ensure that they have the best possible. I´m very grateful for the way they protected me when I needed it. They gave me wings to fly and now I have dreams and goals that I´m going to achieve. I hope my mother will be there when I do, because she´s my mother and I love her a lot. You want to give your mother a hug? Please do. It is very hard because I don´t think there exists a mother who ever wants to be separated from her children, but unfortunately, sometimes they need to be, especially because a lot of the time women are single mothers. You all have achieved that which I am feeling, a lot of love, a great tenderness of heart. We have a few gifts, one of which was really hard to find. Here is a present that I am sure you Luz Maria are going to like. This is the symbol of the ***, of our Good Mother. There are a lot of different representations of our ***, she´s a Marian symbol, but it´s what you both do, being this beautiful universal mother. And for you Reyna Maria, as much as you love your Oaxacan roots, as much as we all love Oaxaca and its black mole. This a gift from all of the production. A big kiss to Oaxaca, and to all of Chilangolandia and all of the Mexican Republic. This is a gift which was sent by two Oaxacan designers so that you always remember where you are from. Beautiful. Thank you. They´re the beautiful flowers of the tehuana no? We couldn´t bring all of the children, which today are 45, but I want you to watch in the monitor these videos. Luz Ma and Reyna, thank you very much for all of the help that you have given me all of these years. I´ll never be able to thank you. Luz Ma and Reyna, I love you lots! Thanks to you I am a good guy and not out in the streets. Thank you for all that you have given me. Luz Ma and Reyna thanks for your support and teaching me to be someone in life. You’re an example for me to follow. We love you Luz Ma! We love you! We love you Reyna! We love you! These are love balls! Balls from all of those who love you. With all of the tenderness and love that you have given from your hearts. We were very happen to have had you here today. It fills me with pride to see them, to bring them closer together, to bring children closer to their mothers, because they are their roots, and to see them is moving to me. You´re going to start studying Engineering, no? Yes I´m going to study at the National University. Congratulations. One of the best universities in the world. Proudly Mexican. We love all of our heros. We want them to know that we are proud of each one of them. How can I express the pride that we feel as Mexicans to have them with us?