Posted on 07/04/2016 1:28:34 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
A Texas high schooler left homeless after the death of his mom has graduated top of his class and even won a full college scholarship.
Liyjon DeSilva was just five years old when he lost his mother, and spent the next few years living with between different relatives until he was finally just abandoned.
But even while he was spending his nights sleeping in parking lots or on park benches in southwest Houston, Texas he never considered missing school.
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GOD BLESS HIM!!!!
But you knew that, didn't you? :o)
Amen!
God bless him. I pray he does not join the racism industry.
If he is truly as strong willed as it appears he won’t buy into that.
So he was eight when he graduated HS?
Says his mother died when he was 5.
Go back and read again, this time slower. He bounced between relatives until they abandoned him.
I hope Hannah Parry didn’t graduate at the “top of her class”.
Don’t go to Ivy League. You’ll just create 100 more
I just checked his Facebook page. He seems like an awesome young man.
Excellent. I wish every hardship person in his shoes would do just as well.
They probably thought he was an uncle tom.
And also all the people who helped him!
What a great, heart-warming story as shared in that video.
My wife taught high school in Texas for 15 years. She figured out one of her students was homeless and questioned him. He was dirty, his shoes were often soaked and he wore the same clothes day after day.
He was brilliant she said (she taught AP physics Chemestry and Biology), come to find out he had left home because his father abused him and so he walked to school from some bridge or wherever he slept. He only lacked a month before graduating so she bought him a bike and some clothes. Then when he graduated he got a full ride somewhere, she wrote all the referrals and sent them.
We gave him an old beat up car we owned and off he went.
He kept in touch for years after letting us know how his life went and all his successes. He gave my wife credit for it all! Ha!
100$ dollar bike and a 500$ car.... He took no credit. Unbelievable.
Love it. God bless you.
Yes I read that but the title says he was homeless for 3 years after his mother died. While that is technically correct, it could be also be true if he was homeless for 3 at any point in the future after his mother died. For example he could be homeless for 3 years from age 97 to 100 ... starting after his mother died 93 years ago and the title would still be technically correct.
I’d hire him. Fine young man.
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