Mitchena--March 2014

Mitchena (Photo by John Carroll)

Mitchena is 13 years old and she doesn’t smile because she is a slave.

She is enslaved by her gender. 

She is enslaved by her illiteracy.

She is enslaved by her leaky heart valve.

But most of all Mitchena is enslaved by her poverty.

John A. Carroll, MD

www.haitianhearts.org