Brave and self-assured, even as a three-year-old, she delights the other kids and teachers. Chika’s arrival makes a quick impression. With no children of their own, the 40-plus children who live, play, and go to school at the orphanage have become family to Mitch and his wife, Janine. She spent her infancy in a landscape of extreme poverty, and when her mother died giving birth to a baby brother, Chika was brought to The Have Faith Haiti Orphanage that Albom operates in Port Au Prince. Performed by Mitch Albom with Chika’s voice featured throughout.Ĭhika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2010. Best-selling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart.
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