Many parents have to work hard to help their children get a higher education.
A young Paraguayan woman named Diana Perez Jara described how her stepfather paid for her two college degrees by working as a shoemaker.
The girl said on her Facebook page that she told her parents she wanted to study law and clerk at university. But Diana’s mother told her they could afford just one degree.
The girl, very upset, went to her room, but her stepfather, Don Derlis, approached her and told her that she was going to work until her fingers hurt so that she could study law and externship.
Derlis was her stepfather and they had lived together for a long time, as her biological father lost his life in an accident when she was one year old.
“You can’t imagine how many times I saw my adoptive father overload himself with work so that I could study,” she added.
According to Diana, Derlis collected all the money he earned by “gluing and sewing shoes.” Even though the father didn’t earn much, he was able to pay for his daughter-in-law’s two diplomas.
