A Family Home offers a shelter for troubled mothers with infants to give temporary help for them to 'sort out their problems' in Arima, Trinidad. If Government were involved, Infants would be separated from their mothers. See how Rotary became involved in 2008 and has continued to be involved.

1. Family Cottage
Becomes A
Temporary
Shelter For
Babies and
Mothers

2. Auntie Leris
Has Opened
the Family
Cottage to
Mothers Who
Need Time to
‘Sort Things
Out’. Teens
Play With the
Little Ones.

3. Auntie
Leris
and
Garvin
Are In
Court To
Adopt
This
Little
Girl.

4. The Previous
Day The
Little Girl
Had a Fever.
Ray Ann,
Now A
Teenager Is
Giving Her
Electrolytes.

5. Meeting Announcement

6. Several Years
Ago Two
Rotary Clubs
(Truro, NS and
Piarco,
Trinidad)
worked
together to
help build a
kitchen for the
Family Cottage.

7. Note the
Large Table
and Chairs,
the Freezer,
Fridges,
Laundry,
Cupboards
and Fire
Extinguisher.

8. These Two Big
Stoves Get A
Lot Of Use.
The Family
Cottage
Operates A
Take Out
Restaurant
Nearby. A Lot
of the
Cooking Is
Done Here.

9. The Teens
Have Two
Bedrooms.

10. The Mothers’ and
Babies Have A
Bedroom

11. Ray Ann Was Valedictorian and Most
Outstanding Female 2014

13. The Rotary Club of Truro, over a two year period, sponsored four of
the younger children to attend a top rate nursery school. Ray Ann
Was One of These Children! (Pictures taken 2008!)

14. Take Out Lunch From The Family Cottage
Restaurant

15. How Often Do We Rotarians See Such Quality
Sustainability Over So Many Years?