{"id":804,"date":"2024-05-16T15:30:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T15:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamerica.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2024-09-24T16:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T20:23:01","slug":"mery-davis-home-care-worker-and-seiu-1199-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamerica.org\/pt\/mery-davis-home-care-worker-and-seiu-1199-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Mery Davis, trabalhadora de assist\u00eancia domiciliar e membro do SEIU 1199"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"804\" class=\"elementor elementor-804\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-92ac69d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"92ac69d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-734eeeab\" data-id=\"734eeeab\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d13cdc3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6d13cdc3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><\/p>\n<p>Tenho muito poucas fotos de minha vida antes de chegar aos Estados Unidos. Em algum momento, eu tinha uma foto de minhas irm\u00e3s e eu quando elas visitaram Honduras depois que meu primeiro filho nasceu. Mas quando comecei a trabalhar nos Estados Unidos, algu\u00e9m me roubou e levou minha carteira de bolso onde estava a foto. No entanto, essa perda n\u00e3o me impediu de ter uma vida boa aqui.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As a young girl growing up in Honduras, all my friends had boyfriends. Lots of men were in love with me, but I told them, \u201cLeave me alone. I\u2019m studying and playing basketball and playing in the band.\u201d Eventually, I married a man I liked, but didn\u2019t love.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Quando eu tinha 13 anos, sonhei que me casaria com um homem africano: alto, bonito, com um nariz forte, que usava roupas douradas, champanhe e laranja, com um chap\u00e9u preto. Afinal, esse sonho se tornaria realidade, mas somente 30 anos depois.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Minha hist\u00f3ria americana come\u00e7a, na verdade, com meu pai, que deu entrada nos pap\u00e9is para todos n\u00f3s. Embora ele fosse meu padrasto, eu o chamava de \"pai\" porque ele me criou. Ele trabalhou duro por n\u00f3s; ningu\u00e9m podia lhe dizer que n\u00e3o \u00e9ramos seus filhos \"de verdade\". Sou quem sou por causa dele, e prometi adotar seu sobrenome, Davis. Minha m\u00e3e e minhas irm\u00e3s mais novas se mudaram primeiro para os Estados Unidos. Elas partiram quando eu tinha 18 anos de idade, enquanto eu fiquei em Honduras com minha tia. Cinco anos depois, aos 24 anos, juntei-me a elas com meu marido, Leonard. Juntos, tivemos tr\u00eas filhos.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Em nossa fam\u00edlia, toda primeira filha \u00e9 chamada de <em>Elizabeth. <\/em>Eu me chamo Mery Elizabeth. Minha filha mais nova se chama Elizabeth Sabrina. Eu estava gr\u00e1vida dela quando me tornei cidad\u00e3 americana em 2001. Hoje, ela estuda ci\u00eancia forense na Howard University, com aspira\u00e7\u00f5es de se tornar m\u00e9dica.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Meu filho do meio, Robert Lee, mora na Fl\u00f3rida e est\u00e1 estudando para se tornar um engenheiro de autom\u00f3veis. Esse sempre foi seu sonho. Eu digo aos meus filhos: \"Voc\u00ea tem que ser algu\u00e9m na vida\". Ele realizar\u00e1 seu sonho. Seu filho (meu neto) \u00e9 Robert III - e a terceira gera\u00e7\u00e3o de Davis.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Edward, meu filho mais velho, nasceu e foi criado em Honduras. Ele mora em Boston, enquanto eu moro em Chelsea, Massachusetts. Tive de lutar para trazer meu filho para os Estados Unidos. Ele entrou para o Job Corp, que treina jovens em programas vocacionais, e se formou em registros m\u00e9dicos. Agora ele trabalha com constru\u00e7\u00e3o, pintura, conserto de apartamentos e mec\u00e2nica.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Meu ex-marido voltou para Honduras, e eu era feliz como m\u00e3e solteira. Mas meus filhos sempre me diziam: \"Voc\u00ea precisa de um parceiro, porque vamos nos casar um dia, ent\u00e3o voc\u00ea precisa encontrar um namorado\". Robert foi quem me colocou no Facebook, onde algu\u00e9m me enviou uma mensagem: \"Eu vi seu perfil e gostei do seu sorriso\". Embora minha m\u00e3e sempre me avisasse: \"N\u00e3o fale com estranhos\", fiz amizade com um homem da Nig\u00e9ria, que estava estudando na Mal\u00e1sia na \u00e9poca. Por fim, come\u00e7amos a conversar por telefone.<\/p><p>Depois de 5 anos nos conhecendo, nos casamos em 2019. Usei um vestido dourado\/champagne porque, em sua cultura, o noivo e a noiva usam as mesmas cores. Quando coloquei meu vestido de noiva, senti como se meu sonho tivesse se tornado realidade. Meu marido nunca havia se casado antes. O conselho de seu pai era \"cuide de si mesmo, tenha uma educa\u00e7\u00e3o e depois encontre sua mulher\". Sua m\u00e3e morreu quando ele era um menino, mas seu pai tinha 114 anos antes de falecer! Ele era o rei de sua aldeia no Estado do Delta, na Nig\u00e9ria, portanto, meu marido \u00e9 o \"pr\u00edncipe\" africano dos meus sonhos.<\/p><p>J\u00e1 se passaram quatro anos desde que nos casamos e, finalmente, em breve ele poder\u00e1 viajar para os EUA para ficar comigo. Como cidad\u00e3 americana, posso fazer uma peti\u00e7\u00e3o para ele, e ele poder\u00e1 se tornar um cidad\u00e3o americano, como eu. Eu poderia ter me reunido com meu marido mais cedo, se n\u00e3o fosse o presidente que estava no cargo quando nos casamos. Finalmente, por\u00e9m, estaremos juntos depois de tantos anos de espera.&nbsp;<\/p><div><br><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><p><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/iamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Mery-Davis-daugher-howard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"1617\" src=\"https:\/\/iamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Mery-Davis-daugher-howard-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/iamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Mery-Davis-family-crop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"1610\" src=\"https:\/\/iamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Mery-Davis-family-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/iamerica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Mery-Davis-IMG_1267.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"1606\" 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Em algum momento, eu tinha uma foto de minhas irm\u00e3s e eu quando elas visitaram Honduras depois que meu primeiro filho nasceu. Mas quando comecei a trabalhar nos Estados Unidos, algu\u00e9m me roubou e levou minha carteira de bolso onde estava a foto. No entanto, essa perda n\u00e3o me impediu de ter uma vida boa aqui.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[16,15],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-our-stories","tag-first-generation","tag-naturalized-citizen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mery Davis, home care worker and SEIU 1199 member - iAmerica<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/iamerica.org\/pt\/mery-davis-home-care-worker-and-seiu-1199-member\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pt_BR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mery Davis, home care worker and SEIU 1199 member - iAmerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have very few photos from my life before I arrived in America. 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