When an Entire Village Wins the Lottery
This is so great. A northern Spanish village of struggling farmers chipped in and bought lottery tickets through their homemakers’ association and won millions.
Initial reactions of the townspeople, each having won hundreds of thousands of dollars include, ‘“Some of the ladies talked about going to the hairdresser,” Mayor Pons said. “But the hairdresser won, too. And she said, ‘I’m not working today.’ So that ended that.”’ and my personal favorite, “People are going to invest in the fields and maybe a sofa.”
These villagers - and Spain as a whole - have faced exceptionally terrible economic conditions in the past few years. Their lottery winnings will help them rebuild, equip their farms with the necessary materials to be productive, and as one winner explains, simply breathe again.
- NYT
