My daughter Destina was adopted from Haiti when she was six years old, she came home right after the earthquake. Today she is a bubbly, fun teenager, and just an all around sweet girl. Over the weekend she had to write an essay about what she enjoyed most about school. As I was helping her edit the paper I loved reading her story. She talked about how she struggled in math but has worked really hard this year and now math is one of her favorite subjects. She talked about being at the orphanage in Haiti watching all the kids go off to school in their uniforms and laughing and how she longed to go to school laughing with friends. She talked about when she first came home and told me that she wanted to go to school, she had only been home for about 3 weeks before she went to school for the first time. She told about how she was bullied in school for being different and not speaking the language, and how she overcame the bulling by turning those bullies into her friends. She said she will never take school for granted because she knows how important an education is and how close she came to never having one.
That is part of the reason I am helping with Carrefour Children's Academy, this school was created to help those children that couldn't afford to go to school have an education. The parents are asked to help out with a small fee or donate time to the school. They want their children to have an education and we want to help. Please consider sponsoring a child to go to school. $20.00 a month is not much to most of us, yet that small amount can change the world for a child.
No comments:
Post a Comment