Update from Annemarie
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- Published: Sunday, 05 June 2016 16:30
- Written by Annemarie N.
AN UPDATE FROM ANNEMARIE… Avant Missionary at El Jordán
I remember first meeting Leidy in jail – she was 20 years old, 7 months pregnant and sharing a room with her mother and younger sister. Because this was her first time in jail, she was released after only eight months. Her mom is in jail for the second time so this time most likely will be sentenced to minimum eight years. Leidy was released the night before having her second daughter, Romina, who is now eight months old.
Corina knows the family from almost twenty years ago when they were all on the streets. From the time Leidy was about six years old and her older sister Laura was 8, they would come to the streets to pick up “Christmas on the Streets” meals to share with their younger sisters. Leidy told me she began coming to El Jordán with an aunt when she was eight years old. A few years later, Leidy and her 4 younger sisters were put into a children’s home where Leidy was until she was in her mid-teens.
In February of this year, an El Jordán volunteer went to visit Leidy’s niece and met up again with Leidy. That´s when she decided to sign up for El Jordán classes this year.
