Delisha Estrada’s Family Holds Fundraiser for Orphaned Son

For Delisha Estrada’s family, the pain is virtually impossible to bear. They are mourning a twenty-one-year-old daughter, sister and mother and trying to build a future for the little boy she left behind. Now, they are asking for help to give that child the education, care and stability he deserves. But even as the family grieves, they say they have been forced to endure painful scrutiny over something as simple as disposal of bedding from the home where Delisha’s was murdered. For her aunt, Juanita Vanegas, it is another burden on a family already carrying more than it should.

 

On The Phone: Juanita Vanegas, Aunt of Deceased

“All we the ask as family, we the grieve. We still can’t get over everything at once, you know? My sister the try get her grandbaby together, try transfer him to a closer school, and the try get help, while this lady deh all over the media just can’t let my niece rest in peace, you understand? We the have a charity fund for the baby. We have our flyers. We the have an  awareness on violence, domestic and violence on the 23rd of October at seven p.m., Welcome Center. That’s for the baby, you know. For the baby we the do a raise fund for the baby, you know, ’cause yes my sister done buy stuff for him. But like I said, we never recover nothing from the house. Cause we never want nothing from in deh. So we the do that walk and just a dollar drive, you know, dollar. Every dollar counts. So da that we the do, clothes, toys, anything. It don’t have to be money ’cause we no want nobody say that, you know, we the try get anything ’cause of that, you know.”

 

The fundraiser for Delisha’s Estrada baby who was orphaned by the tragic murder-suicide is scheduled for October 23 at the Cayo Welcome Center.

 

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