This young girl is Ericka Pierre. She had a very tough start to life when her mother became ill and died during her delivery. A woman in a nearby village tried to care for her. When we found her several months later, she was severely malnourished, and highly contagious with a skin infection. We brought her to our Love A Child Children’s Home and fed her nutritious food, and she seemed to be improving. We treated her skin infection, which took some time to get better. As she grew older, we discovered that her speech was impaired and her mental development had suffered as well.

Ericka can no longer attend school, as she cannot keep up with the other children. Unfortunately, there are no “special needs” schools here in our area. She loves to work and help out at our Love A Child Children’s Home. We will train her in a job that she can do in the future so that she can make a living at Love A Child. We love her so much. Sherry