Eva Peron Learn English through story level 3

eva peron

the actress who helped poor and sick

people

in argentina

[Music]

i was a famous actress in argentina

i helped my husband juan peron to become

president i used my power to help sick

and poor people i also helped women to

get the vote for the first time

in argentina

i was born in 1919 in los

toldos in the argentinian countryside

my mother was a poor country girl but my

father was a rich man from the city

unfortunately my father died when i was

very young

and life was very hard for my family

my mother worked hard to earn money she

made clothes for other people

four years after my father died in 1930

we moved to a small apartment in the

city of hunim

life was very difficult at first but my

brothers and sisters were growing up

soon they got jobs with their money

we moved to a larger home and i was able

to start

school i enjoyed school very much

but my favorite lessons were singing and

acting in 1933

i won a role in the school play

i was so excited from that day

i knew that i wanted to be an actress

it was my dream

in 1935 when i was 15 years old

my mother found me a place to live in

buenos aires

it was exciting for me to be in this

amazing city

but it was a time of great economic

problems

many people didn’t have work and

everywhere i went

i saw poor and hungry people in the

streets

luckily i found a job so i had enough

money to pay my rent

during the day i worked and in the

evenings

i joined a theater group soon i was

given my first

role at the commedia’s theater and in

1936

i traveled with the theater company

around argentina

i also got my first part in a film

i was only 17 years old

and i was already an actress

in 1937 i started working

for radio el mundo on a popular radio

show

radio el mundo was the biggest radio

company

in argentina and soon my name was well

known then radio belgrano

asked me to work for them on their show

great women of history on the show

i played some famous roles queen

elizabeth

the first of england was one of them

i was no longer a poor girl from the

countryside

important people wanted to meet me and

by 1942

i had my own apartment in one of the

best parts of the city

but then something happened that changed

my life forever

in january 1944 an earthquake hit the

town of san juan

it was terrible because 10 000 people

were killed

and many more were hurt juan peron was

an

important political leader he organized

a concert to help the people of san juan

and i was invited to be in it

after the concert i talked to juan peron

and learned about his political ideas

from that day i had a new dream

i wanted juan peron to become the

president

of argentina

on the radio i talked every day about

juan’s work

and his ideas unfortunately

juan had powerful enemies and they found

him

and put him in prison on my radio

show i asked the people for help

and on the 15th of october 1945

300 thousand people came to the caso

rosado

the president’s house in buenos aires

i stood on a balcony of the house and

spoke to the people from my heart

soon everyone was shouting free juan

peron

free juan peron

two days later juan was free and the

following day

juan and i got married we were so happy

we traveled together around argentina

and we both spoke at political meetings

i told the people that juan could help

them and their families

i also asked them to call me avita

little eva we were a great success

and in 1946 juan peron became the

president of

argentina suddenly

at the age of 27 i was the president’s

wife

and the first lady of argentina

i wanted to work hard and help the

people

in 1947 avita city was built to give

homes to poor families

and in 1948 i

started the eva peron foundation an

organization to help poor and sick

people

by 1950 the foundation had received over

200 million dollars and had

14 000 workers we also gave out

thousands of shoes and cooking materials

and built hospitals and schools

i worked day and night and met with

thousands of sick and poor people

i wanted to give them hope

i also wanted women to have more

political power

when juan became president women weren’t

able to vote

juan and i fought to change this

and i also started a new political party

for women it was called the female

paronist party

by 1951 the party had

more than 500 000 women members

with the help of these women juan peron

became president for the second time

many people wanted me to have a bigger

political role

but i had to say no i was already

working too hard

sometimes more than 20 hours a day

and the problems i saw every day were

making me ill

my husband asked me to take more rest

but the poor and sick people needed my

help

i couldn’t stop

i was taken to hospital several times

and

lost a lot of weight i was also

in a lot of pain and the pain got worse

and worse i wanted to help my husband

but it wasn’t possible i wanted to see

our country become a better place

but unfortunately this didn’t happen

i was only 33 years old when i died

but people around the world still

remember

me and many people in argentina

still think of me as they