Jean Edwouard is such a sweet, kind young man. He is now going into his last year of high school. He is so intelligent and so, so respectful! He always talks in a calm gentle voice. We first found Jean Edwouard in the mud hut village of Old Letant. We had a team with us from Feed My Starving Children. I happened to see this sweet little boy, about five or six years old, carrying a heavy bucket of water on his head. He then built a fire (by himself) and prepared to cook food for a large family. I found out that he was a restavek child. (This is a child whose parents have died and there is no one to take care of him/her. The child goes to stay with a family, but this child will do all of the work and never go to school. He/she becomes a slave to the family.)

We brought Jean Edwouard home with us. He began to do well in school. When he was in high school, he began doing clothing alterations by hand… sewing the boys’ pants, etc. We found out that he wanted to be a tailor and make clothes! Someone donated a sewing machine, and he took off! In the meantime, we hired him for our “painting team,” so he is either studying, painting, or sewing.

Yesterday, we found out that he has “two young men” working for him, doing alterations, and sewing. We’ve decided to give him our old “dental clinic,” which is really an old shipping container, as his “alteration/sewing shop!” He is so excited! He will begin to fix up his “sewing room,” so that he can have two others helping! He is really an entrepreneur! We have always taught our Love A Child children to “dream big” because, with the Lord’s help, you can do anything or be anything, as long as the Lord is on your side!!!

We all love Jean Edwouard!

Sherry