National scholarship winner Jilisse Roberts of Naparima Girls’ High School is determined to help get her mother back to optimum health after her mother, Lystra, suffered kidney failure.
A Guardian Newspaper report states that Roberts won an additional scholarship in Modern Studies at the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations.
She was one of 19 girls from Naparima Girls’ High School who won scholarships this year.
Roberts has now said she plans to donate a kidney to her mother.
She said her parents, Jay and Lystra Roberts, were extremely supportive of her.
Her mother would lie with her while she was studying, do all the household chores and prepare additional schoolwork for her.
Roberts, now works at Toymart in Gulf City, to get work experience and also contribute financially to her family.
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