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Full name: Jean Ronel Michel
Birth date: June 23, 1996
Residence: St. Joseph’s Home for Boys
School: Nouveau College Concordia
Class: Fourth grade
When joined SJF: 2005
Activities involved in at SJF: Boy Scouts, art, dance
Favorite activities: Soccer and dance
Favorite foods: Cornmeal and fish
Favorite subject in school: Math, French and sci ence
Dreams for the future: Plumber or a baker
Jean Ronel Michel is known by the nickname TiTig (Little Tiger).
TiTig was born and lived his first years in a small village near Cap Haitian. He does not know his father. After his mother died, TiTig went to live with his aunt in Petionville. His aunt used him as a live-in, cost-free servant (a restavek). Jean Ronel was given the responsibility of caring for the aunt’s two babies, as well as sweeping, mopping, carrying water, helping in the kitchen and countless other tasks. One day some of the children in the neighborhood told Jean Ronel’s uncle that he had $20. Jean Ronel told him it was a lie, but the uncle began beating little Jean Ronel savagely with a leather strap, causing huge lacerations all over his head and body. Jean Ronel was eventually able to run away from the uncle. He spent the night on the streets and the next day a security guard who worked in the neighborhood found him, still bloody and scarred from the attack, and took him to his employer, the wife of a French diplomat. The woman asked Jean Ronel about his life and was told of his harsh treatment and that he was not allowed to go to school. The French woman took pity on Jean Ronel, who she started calling “TiTig” for the little tiger embroidered on his shirt when she met him, and took him to a hospital to treat his wounds and then took him home and vowed to find him a safe place to live. Eventually, the French woman met Michael and heard about the loving home at St. Joseph’s and asked Michael to take TiTig into our family, which we did.
TiTig is an out-going and happy boy. He likes playing with the other boys, particularly playing soccer. His is involved in the St. Joseph’s Boy Scout troop and dance. TiTig loves going to school and learning new things.
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