Celebrating Mother's Day Far From Home

Celebrating Mother's Day Far From Home
AURORA,COLORADO,THURSDAY,AUGUST 7,2003-Emma  Villegas  , manager of Envios Mexico, Inc.  in Aurora  , waits for customers behind a glass partition at her money wiring service company. She is from Mexico  . Most of the people that come to her business speak Spanish and send money to Mexico  . She has taken English classes through Aurora Public School, English as a Second Language program or ESL. . Customer Elvira  Torres  of Aurora is walking through the door.(DENVER POST PHOTO BY LYN ALWEIS) Enviros-303-360-7826 (Photo By Lyn Alweis/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
AURORA,COLORADO,THURSDAY,AUGUST 7,2003-Emma Villegas , manager of Envios Mexico, Inc. in Aurora , waits for customers behind a glass partition at her money wiring service company. She is from Mexico . Most of the people that come to her business speak Spanish and send money to Mexico . She has taken English classes through Aurora Public School, English as a Second Language program or ESL. . Customer Elvira Torres of Aurora is walking through the door.(DENVER POST PHOTO BY LYN ALWEIS) Enviros-303-360-7826 (Photo By Lyn Alweis/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Jonathan Marulanda walked into De Prisa Multiservice in Englewood on Sunday carrying two boxes that contained clothes, perfume, Hershey kisses and chocolate bars for his mother in Pereira, Colombia.

The Mother’s Day gifts will arrive a little late, in about a week. Colombians also celebrated the holiday on Sunday, but Marulanda said he wasn’t worried. On Saturday, he had wired his mom $100.

“With the money I sent her, she went out to dinner,” said Marulanda, who visited his mother a few months ago. “I really would want to spend time with her, especially on this day.”

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