The young man finds the family with brochures 27 years after being lost

C.arlos Silva was only five years old when he ran away from home after seeing another stepfather attack his mother. Afraid and tired of witnessing so much violence, he hid in a bus parked in the terminal of Juazeiro, municipality of Ceará, Brazil, where he lived. Solo fell asleep and when he woke up he didn’t know how to get home, he was in a completely unknown city.

The driver of the heavy passenger vehicle took him to a children’s home orphans, in Fortaleza. Since then, Carlos has passed through several centers and lived on the streets of the Brazilian state capital, until he was welcomed by the Associação Beneficente Pequeno Nazareno, which welcomes vulnerable children and adolescents in Maranguape.

When asked where he came from, Carlos could only tell that his mother had been called Geane, who had two sisters, a brother, who was named Diego, and an uncle, named Nino, who offered him clay carts.

Later, it was adopted by the founder of the association. With the support of the father favor and a friend, he began to draw what came to the memory of his infancia.

Over the years, curiosity about where the biological family was located has grown, but only now, after more than two decades and at the age of 32, has Carlos decided to look for his mother.

Distributed more than 2,000 brochures for Juazeiro with some memories I still had infancia: the walk with the grandmother to the statue of Father Cícero, the small bus station where he played and asked for money and the name of his uncle.

And one of the papers got where it was supposed to. The younger brother, whom Carlos has never met, saw one of the brochures and linked it to the story his mother told. Is called.

The brothers have stayed in touch ever since and intend to reunite the family. Geane da Silva died in 2017, a victim of breast cancer, but the rest of the brothers really want knowshe and his grandmother, who still doesn’t know the news, want to see Carlos again.

“It will be a great emotion for her. In a year of pandemic, of so many tragedies, finally a miracle, ”Carlos told G1, revealing that next weekend they will all meet at the grandmother’s house, whom he has not seen for 27 years.

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