St. Joseph's Ritchy

PO Box 2461

Riedsville, NC 27323

336.616.1842

info@heirloomcarfters.com

Full name: Ritchy Ruiz

Birth date: January 24, 1993

Residence: Trinity House

School: Edouard Megie

Class: Fourth grade

When joined SJF: 2006

Previous SJF residences: St. Joseph’s Home for Boys

Activities involved in at SJF: Boy Scouts, choir, art, dance, Trinity soccer team

Favorite activities: Soccer, dance and art

Favorite foods: Plantain with meat, rice with bean sauce

Favorite subject in school: Math, grammar and his tory

Dreams for the future: To have a home for children

Ritchy comes from a poor family. His mother and father separated when he was six-years-old. For some time his family was homeless and they moved around a lot as his mother looked for places where they could sleep at night. In 2006, his mother decided she wanted to go to the Dominican Republic to find work. She took Ritchy to the Haitian Department of Social Services and abandoned him there. The Haitian Department of Social Services brought Ritchy to the St. Joseph Family. He lived at St. Joseph’s Home for Boys for a few months before moving to Trinity House.

Because of his background, he has some abandonment issues. He said, “My parents didn’t keep me with them because they didn’t want me. They just wanted to get rid of me.”

But now that he is in a place that is safe with a family that loves and supports him, Ritchy is beginning to experience the joy of life and sees his life as one of resurrection and hope. He recognizes how the St. Joseph Family has changed his life and he wants to help others by creating a home for street children when he grows up.

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Photo Courtesy of Renee Dietrich

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