A brilliant young girl named Lourdjinia Louis has emerged as the valedictorian of Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, in the United States.
Louis, from Haiti graduated from Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, in Boston, United States with the highest grade point earning her the valedictorian of the school’s 2023 graduating set.
Her achievement made her the first in her whole family to successfully complete high school. Louis moved to the United states in 2018 from Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere to further her studies.
She enrolled in Boston Public Schools with no knowledge of English and felt overwhelmed by American culture. Nevertheless, she persevered through these challenges.
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Louis stated that she pushed through by asking lots of questions, even as she sometimes struggled to find the words to frame them, raising her hand more often than other students and engaging with teachers until she understood the material.
“I ask a lot of questions so I can get what[the teacher wants me to do. I’m a little slow, but when I get the thing, I get it forever. When I get it, I can teach everyone for you,” she said.
Louis said she also stayed after school every day and came in on Saturdays for tutoring. She added that some teachers allowed her to submit class essays multiple times for corrections, to help refine her writing in English.
Louis said she moved to Boston in 2017 with her mother and her brother leaving their father to work. She said her mother, Annelia Jean found work as a housekeeper, while she enrolled in school.
She said she loves people and hates to see anyone suffer because growing up in Port-au-Prince, she sometimes saw hungry children her age on the city streets asking passersby for money.
Louis said she hopes to use the opportunities life has afforded her to become a doctor and help others, especially back in Haiti, where there is a desperate need for medical care.
“Growing up in Haiti, to go to the hospital, you have to pay. If you don’t have money, you will be dead,” she said. “
She is taking summer classes at Bunker Hill Community College and working part-time at Boston Medical Center, where she takes patients’ vital signs, collects samples for testing, and helps conduct electrocardiograms.
Louis will be continuing her education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston in the United States. She is making history as the first in her family to go to college
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