The new computer teacher

Sony Orzile was born in the department (state) of Fort Liberte which is to the north of the central plateau about twenty minutes by car, or an hour on foot.  (I assume the road must be bad if the car is only three times as fast as walking!)  He lived with his father in Cap Haitien until he was 11; his father remarried and the new step-mother was not good to him so he decided to move back with his mother.  His mother had also remarried, and he didn’t get along with the new step-father so he moved in with his grandmother. His father refused to pay for his school and his mother and grandmother weren’t able to help him so he began working on the road to Cerca to earn money to go to school.  He finished his primary school living with his grandmother, and then managed to earn enough to go to school at Sacred Heart secondary school in Papaye which only contained grades 7-9 at that time.  He finished high school at St. Martin’s, working to pay the tuition.  He then studied computer engineering in the Dominican Republic earning qualifications in Oracle database and Java.  He graduated in 2010 and worked as a system manager.  He told me that life is very difficult for Haitians in the Dominican Republic.  There is much discrimination against them there, so now he has moved back to Haiti and is working at Holy Family School.  We are fortunate to have him!