Veronica Robles

         

            Our community hero.                                                                             

Veronica Robles is our hero because she works a lot for our community on issues such as foreclosures. In her work she has the chance of knowing a lot of people’s stories. Right now she’s working on helping others get their citizenship. She hopes everyone she works with gets it because they deserve it. In her work she likes working every single day because she learns new thing when she works on the computer.

The most difficult thing about her work is when she does outreach because her and some other people go to houses to look for home owners, but they can not find them. In her community she would like to change the level of safety because every where there’s a lot of gangbangers and   violence. Her obstacle is to talk to more people because in her work she has to do a lot of talking.

The community she works in is Kimball to Central Park. Veronica has a happy family. She has two children, a boy that is 12- years old and a daughter that is 8- years old. She also has a husband that loves her so much.  In the future she wants her children to join in the community because is a really nice place to join in a group of people that helps each other to change the community.

          In her life she wants to accomplish one thing and that is that she wants to stay in the community to learn more. She wants to give her children a better life and a better future. When she has some time in her free time she would relax for a little bit because she does a lot work to do such as taking her children to school and going to work. Her background or heritage is American because she was born here in Chicago.

 Her parents were born in Mexico, but she would consider herself Mexican. When she was sixteen, she got pregnant. Her life was really difficult for her because she couldn’t raise her child and go to school at the same time. So she stopped studying when she was in junior year at Foreman High. One thing she would like to do is to keep up studying. “Todo se puede,” she says. You could do it no matter what.

Written by: Ruby Ballesteros