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