"It is not so easy to find food in the morning...."
At age 13 Danicka is one of Mercy Beyond Borders' youngest scholars in Haiti. She walks two hours every morning from her family's rural house to high school in Gros Morne town, and repeats that walk after school. Back home Danicka does more than her share of chores, since her mother is nearly blind.
| Darline, MBB Scholarship Coordinator, at the gate to Danicka's home. |
Danicka practices her lessons with chalk on a large plank of wood painted as a blackboard and studies at night with the aid of the solar lamp that MBB provided. She is #1 in her class at the very competitive college-prep school she attends on her MBB scholarship. Her favorite subjects are Science, Spanish and French; she wants to be a nurse.
| Danicka, writing on the backyard blackboard. |
Given that she leaves home at 6:00 a.m., I asked her what she eats for breakfast. Quietly she replied, "Well, it is not so easy to find food in the morning..."
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