Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Jemisha, Joshua, and Kadyann

I decided to share with you all pictures and personal testimonies of the children that attend SRCS.  Here is a testimony on three of the them.  My hope and prayer is that this will help you all get to know them a little better, like i have.  Their are 34 students, and these are just 3 of them.

Jemisha, Joshua, and Kadyann come from a very special family.  Jemisha and Joshua are the youngest of 9 children and both have special learning needs.  Jemisha is epileptic and has several learning delays.  She loves to read her Science and loves English.  Jemisha's parents decided to give her one last chance at learning and she's been with SRCS since the beginning.  They are thrilled with the progress she has made.  Joshua was born with hydrocephalus and had a shunt put in when he was a baby.  Unfortunately, the shunt wasn't draining correctly and it was clipped.  Joshua, too, has learning delays as a result of his special challenges.  However, he is proving to the world that he can learn and he too, loves Science and English.

Eunice, their mother,  is part of our sewing project and helps support the family by sewing items at home to be sold to tourists.  She is an excellent seamstress.  Their father, Steve,  is a painter and he volunteered his expertise to paint our new school building.  Marcy, one of the older siblings volunteers at SRCS and is a natural teacher (even though she's planning on going to nursing school next year).

Kadyann and her two siblings are living with the family (her grandparents) as their mom is currently working in the Cayman Islands.  It's a struggle to be so far away from the family, but Kadyann's mom knows that Kadyann is in a great environment.  Kadyann is thriving at SRCS and loves Math, Science, and English.  

The food staples that ER International provide are a great blessing to this hard-working family.

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