Graduation Day

Last week, three of our oldest girls at Agape Home graduated from primary school (the compulsory portion of their education) to the Thai system of high school---a great achievement indeed! This means that they are one step closer to being able to choose to study further (one wants to go on to study computers and IT), and to graduating to the promise of a good job and a future with possibilities that we all dream of at their age. I am so proud of them. All are excellent students, well thought of by their teachers and friends. Given the odds against them based on the circumstances of their early lives, their maturity, grace and success is all the more stunning. The same day, 5 of our young boys graduated from the Thai version of elementary school to what we would know as middle school, or junior high. In a few years, they will join their "older sisters" as success stories in the educational system. I hope there will be many more to follow. We hear a lot about metrics these days---what a wonderful thing to be greeted with the news of this particular "metric of success"!!