Pedro, 11, shows his gratitude to his mother, Irma. “She deserves all my heart,” he says.

Four years ago, Pedro’s father died. Since then “my mother has been a mother and father to me,” says Pedro, a World Vision sponsored child in El Salvador. 

He wants to make her proud of him. “I am getting ahead (in school), and I am a good child,” he says.

While he doesn’t have the means to buy her gifts, “I would give her all my love, my feelings,” he says. 

Photo©2017 World Vision, Katia Maldonado