Three Brothers and a Home
The small shack was on the edge of the beach where most of the city’s poorest inhabitants lived. One room housed seven children and their mother. There was no glass in the windows, no carpets on the floor, and the house sometimes flooded at high tide. The mother and her husband had been struggling together to provide for their family when he suddenly died from a heart attack. Unable to provide for the family on the pittance she made by mending clothes, the mother pleaded with Kids Alive for help. A week later Charlie, Michael, and Joseph (not actual names) came to live at the Kids Alive Children’s Home. Leaving their mother was heart-wrenching for the boys, but they quickly warmed to the love and care of their house mother and their new home. They had never had a playground to play on, and are now going to class and doing well in their studies. A few weeks after they arrived, Michael (pictured here) came up to our Home’s Director, a big smile on his face and as he took the director's hand he said “I am happy here!”
