Note to our Partners: We “just got internet,” but we don’t know how long we will “have it.” Sherry

Jean Edward… He Does What He Loves!

Most of the older boys choose a profession such as “computer engineering,” or a “mechanic,” etc. But Jean Edward is different… He loves “tailoring!”

We first found him when we were with a Team from Feed My Starving Children. We were in the village of “Old Letant,” where we did Food Distributions each month. As we were walking around, we saw a little boy, about five or six, “starting a fire” and setting a large pot on the fire. Then, he went and carried a huge bucket of water from the pump by himself and started for adults who were just “sitting around.”

I realized then that he was a “restavek” (a slave child). This usually happens when both parents have died, and the child has to go and “rest with” (become a restavek, slave child).

This is actually against the law in Haiti, but no one ever reports this. These children will never go to school and never be treated like the rest of the children…

So, I picked him up and went to his “aunt” and told her, “We are taking him to the “big house,” and he is going to stay with us!”

No one ever came back for him. When he was here, we noticed that he would sit and sew with a needle and thread. He would get a needle and thread and sew the kids’ pants up or sew a button on a shirt, etc. Later, after graduating, he told us he wanted to become a professional seamstress, making uniforms, dresses, men’s clothing., etc. One of our partners sent in a sewing machine, and “he was off running!”

Jean Edward is one of the sweetest, kindest, and most obedient young men we have ever seen!!! He is loved by all! I am so glad we were in that dirty, mud hut village, in “God’s perfect timing!”

Sherry