Her mother had been sold into the sex industry when she was 12 years old.  Her uncle, with the help of police released her back to her family.  She married young and had two girls one year apart.

The youngest girl was sent to live with her grandparents for three years because there was not enough to eat.  When she was 8 years old, she had to stay home and care for their father, so Mom could go to work.  He had TB and often hit them with his cane.  When he died, they were sent back to live with grandparents.  Because there was not enough rice, they were often very hungry and cried because we were so hungry.  When she was nine years old, she and her sister found their own way to a bus that took them to a government welfare boarding school.

Good news!  We had enough food to eat … and we got to go to school and learn to read, write and so on.  She said “at the start, it was very difficult.  I had to live like a soldier and the school had many rules.  During holidays, I never had a chance to go back home because this school doesn’t let students leave school unless we can have a family member to come to take us out.  But my family always said they didn’t have time and I stayed too far from them.  I still remember the holidays and how my friends’ parents came to visit and took them home.  But I had to stay at the school … this made me sad.  … so I spent 6 years there until I graduated.   When I started middle school, I realized that I didn’t want to have the same life as my family.  I wanted to be educated.  I wanted to have a good future.”

“When my friends would go play, I learned how to do massages and earned money, saving every penny for my future my family couldn’t help me.  I told myself, “I will do the best that I can do.”  I promised myself that I will be successful in the future … I will not do the same as my family.  I choose to be happy and thankful for the good things.” A dear friend, Bekah, helped me get a scholarship to go to a university.

“Thank you, Sustainable Hope, for helping me dream big and make my dreams come true!”

2019 UP-DATE: Now she is a Flight Attendant

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