Francisca

“I applied for unemployment, but I haven’t gotten a penny yet. It’s a big mess. I can’t work because I don’t have a space. I can’t earn money, so I can’t pay for a space. And it’s going to take years to rebuild my house once I do get the insurance check. In the meantime, parents are calling me saying, ‘When are you opening? The grandparents can’t keep doing this forever.’ Soon they will have to look for another child care because they have to go back to work. I miss those kids. I miss my job. I love teaching children, but it looks like recovery is going to take a really, really long time, and it’s going to be hard.”