Without his mother's knowledge, he began selling his drawings on his Twitter page to help the family get by and to pay for a special diet doctors say he needs in Venezuela's troubled economy. I’m Samuel, I’m selling my drawings for US$1 (RM4.11) to help my mom with my diet, buy her a house and a shop so she won’t work on the street and get sick with Covid-19 and buy peanut butter for me. Thank you, sir and madam, ” he tweeted along with photos of four drawings. But they came home in December after she lost her job and found increasing prejudice against the growing number of Venezuelan migrants. Venezuelan artist Oscar Olivares, who runs an art academy, saw Samuel’s tweets and gave him a scholarship to study drawing.

Source: The Star March 17, 2021 01:52 UTC