The other day as she sat beside Profe Janet, doing homework, she started to muse:“I like the foundation. I like being here … Profe Anita taught me what I know.”

When Janet asked her how she had actually come to the ‘The Bridge’ she replied, “A friend of my mom had a son in the foundation. She said this was a good place, that mom could sign me up – that it was a safe place. When mom enrolled me in public school she thought I would be placed in kindergarten, but they put me in second grade. My mom was really happy because of all that I had learned here.”

Underprivileged kids seem to struggle a lot with health issues and Vincent* who is an enthusiastic first grader in our homeschool program was absent from The Bridge for over a week. According to his mother, he was biting at the bit to get back. Upon his return, his prayer during the devotional time went:

“Daddy God, I thank you because I could come back to my school. Thank you because I was sick and you healed me. Thank you because I read the Bible at home. (That’s a storybook Bible The Bridge was able to give him last Christmas.) Thank you because my mom was sick and I told you to heal her and you did.”