I like playing hopscotch with the girls. It's a game where we can all come together and have fun. I've been playing from the time I was a little girl. I like to laugh. I like combing my hair and making it pretty. I am a nice person. I want to be a psychologist when U grow up because I want to help.

Mwenn renmen jwe marel ak medam yo. Se yon jwet kote nou tout ka reini ansanm e anmize nou. Depi mwen tou piti, map jwe jwet sa. Mwen renmen ri. Mwenn renmen penyen cheve m' e fe yo bei. Mwen janti. Mwenn vle vin yon sikolog le mwen pi gran paske mwenn vle ede.

BOOKS BY MAOUCHECA

Stand Up For Soraya

by the Restavek Freedom Writers

Story: Soraya dreams of the life she once knew: a loving mother, school, hope for the future. But now that her mother has died, her father has re-married, and her step-mother treats her as a slave, she feels alone and invisible. Until one day when she meets a little girl named Anita, who courage and sense of justice could change the course of Soraya's life. Through this story the authors issue a challenge: Could you have this courage to change a life?

Story Behind the Story: Written by a team of young women served by the Restavek Freedom Foundation, Stand Up For Soraya aims to raise awareness about the inhumanity and injustice of child slavery in Haiti. At the same time, the books give these young women the opportunity to shape the stories of their own lives with power and possibility and hope.

ISBN: 978-0692329627
Age: 7-11
Lexile: 550L
Page Count: 42
Published: Fall 2014