Meet Eliamise and her son, Tcharly.

Tcharly (pronounced Charlie) is six-years-old and a student of The Joseph School.   They live in the city of Cabaret, Haiti.  Eliamise recently shared with us the impact The Joseph School is having on her life, her son’s life, and the life of her family.

“The Joseph School means so much to me, even if you give me the entire day to tell what the school brings in my life, it will not be enough.”

Eliamise and her family live on a rocky mountain about thirty minutes from TJS.  Every morning at 4:30am, Eliamise walks nearly three miles down the mountain with Tcharly on her back so that he can meet the taptap, or bus, at 6am that takes him to school.

“The taptap is such a blessing,” she says.  Without the taptap, she didn’t know how Tcharly would be able to attend The Joseph School.  After asking if Tcharly slept while she carried him down to the bus, she laughed, “No, he’s too excited.”

Eliamise told us how much Tcharly had learned in the past few months of being a student at The Joseph School.

 “He has learned so much that he is now reading and his language is better and clear.  He comes home and teaches what he’s learned to his little brother,” she said.

Because Tcharly is learning so quickly at The Joseph School, Eliamise decided to go back to school herself. She stopped going to school in the eighth grade, but said, “I need to do this  to keep up with my son.”  After working everyday from 8am-12pm, Eliamise is taking classes from 1pm-7pm.

“The Joseph School is God’s grace,” says Eliamise.  She said that she would have to be the wealthiest woman to give her son the kind of education he is getting at the Joseph School.

When she first learned that Tcharly would be a student at The Joseph School, Eliamise was concerned that she wouldn’t be able to feed him enough to stay focused.

“Some days, I just worried about what to feed Tcharly,” she said. But then she learned The Joseph School provides two meals a day to each student. These two meals are greatly impactful for Eliamise and her family, and she says this is God’s grace.

Eliamise told us that she felt like The Joseph School came to Cabaret just for Tcharly. She said it’s such a blessing for her to be a part of the school.

Eliamise and Tcharly’s story is just one of many and why we work to make The Joseph School it’s best.