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Mom pleased after daughter battles through trying circumstances to become a teacher

Aug 19th, 2022 | Category: GLEANER PREMIUM | 10:06
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#jamaicagleaner #LivingConditions #poverty AUGUST 20, 2022: Sitting in a dirt-base, partially collapsed one-room shack as she studied each night using a flashlight from her cellphone, Anita Stephenson was determined to excel and power her way through high school and teacher’s college to improve hers and her mom’s standard of living. For the last five years, Stephenson and her mom, Dezreen Miller, have been enduring trying circumstances as they battled the elements and watched their Olympic Gardens, St Andrew, home deteriorate further by the day.

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