A boy seeks help from the police from hunger... and provokes the sympathy of Brazil
Miguel's family has received donations from all sides.
AFP
Celia Barros' refrigerator was empty a week ago, and there was nothing to fill her children's hunger, but today this Brazilian mother hardly finds space to store food, as donations poured in from all sides, after her 11-year-old son called the police for help.
And the young man (Miguel), the operative who responded to him, said, "Police, we don't have anything to eat at home."
The policeman who received the phone call sent officers to the place, believing that the family's conditions were caused by parents' neglect.
The police went to a store to buy food for family members.
When the local press took up this agonizing story, Brazilians from across the country were affected by the Barros family's tragedy, donations started pouring in, and the family's cramped kitchen (formerly empty) became a convenience store.
"We received many kinds of foods and foods that I didn't know before," says the boy (Miguel), as he opens a cupboard full of food.
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