Sabrina couldn’t afford to pay for a car. So she slung the first bag of laundry over her shoulder and walked ten blocks, from her home in Villa Luzuriaga to a neighbor’s house. Then she walked back again to return it clean.
She needed a job that wouldn’t take her away from her children. Melissa, the oldest, has autism and a specific language disorder: she attends therapy three times a week, with five different treatments. A fixed-schedule job was impossible.
“If it wasn’t doing laundry, it was something else, but I had to do something to cover all the expenses”, she told Telenoche.
She started with the neighbors in the area. Then the Facebook groups came, and with them, the orders. Today she washes up to five loads a day, charges 10 dollars for every ten kilos, and she even figured out how to deal with the rain: fabric softener with white vinegar so that the clothes smell clean again.
“This pays for our food, our things, everything”, she says.
She still delivers orders on foot around the neighborhood. Now her children accompany her. The washing machine is still the same. What changed is everything else.
