Having previously lost infant brother Pierre to malnutrition, the family is constantly concerned for Gregory’s fragile health.ĭetermined to start school in the new year, Serafina devises a plan to fill an empty jar with extra coins that will pay for her tuition. Serafina’s parents rebuild on higher ground, where they welcome baby Gregory. When the family’s hut is swept away by a sudden flood, her family manages to survive while many others do not. Exhausted from carrying water, chopping wood, and more, Serafina dreams of getting an education and becoming a doctor: at 11, she is well aware, “ Education is the road to freedom.” While her father works at a city grocery store, her pregnant mother and widowed grandmother Gogo grow herbs they sell on a city street corner. With rarely enough to eat, her family has nothing left over to pay the school fees, much less buy the required uniform. Serafina, who lives in the outskirts of Haiti’s Port-au-Prince, has never had the chance to go to school.
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