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St Bess family thanks 'good Samaritan' for school gifts
BY MARK CUMMINGS Observer West senior reporter cummingsm@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, October 29, 2009
WINDSOR, St Elizabeth - The kindness of a Kingston banking executive has made an otherwise tough life for 33-year-old Roslyn Miller and her ten-year-old daughter, Kimoy much more enjoyable.
The executive, who has opted to remain anonymous, responded to the plight of Miller and her children, which was featured earlier this month in the Observer West, with a donation of Grade five books for Kimoy who attends the Siloah Primary School in St Elizabeth.
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| Roslyn Miller (left) and daughter Kimoy enjoy one of the books sent from a 'good Samaritan' in Kingston. (Photo: Philip Lemonte) |
"I am very happy now," Kimoy said, sporting a broad smile, when she was presented with the books outside the family house in Windsor by a representative of the Observer West on Tuesday.
Miller and her three charges have been experiencing severe hardship since her common-law husband, Lloyd Campbell - who is also Kimoy's father - suffocated in a freak accident at the Appleton Sugar Factory just over four years ago.
According to Miller, in April 2005, 30 tonnes of sugar came tumbling down on Campbell as he worked inside a sugar bin at Appleton, ending the 11-year relationship with Miller which produced three children - Kimoy and two boys.
Since then they've been barely getting by on the monthly J$9,000 that the Administrator General's department, which manages Campbell's estate, gives her to care for her three children and herself.
However, according to the department, the sum is what the estate affords them under the laws of Jamaica.
They're nevertheless happy that Kimoy, who will be sitting the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) - a one-shot exam which the Government uses to determine whether or not Jamaican children earn a place in one of its credible schools - now has the required texts.
" I am very thankful and happy for the books. Now Kimoy can learn much better at school," said Miller.
Meanwhile, Miller has opened an account at the Santa Cruz Branch of the Scotiabank in St Elizabeth - account 16837 - for persons wishing to make monetary contributions to the family.
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