Amie

Amie is really where the pearl work started! She was found on the floor of her home with her two girls dying, by her visiting teacher, who had a feeling to go check on her. Amie's husband had left them and she had know way to feed her children so she poisoned them and herself, thinking it would be better, because she didn't want them to suffer starvation for weeks before they finally died. I can't even imagine being at that point where you could even come to that kind of choice. It is so sad! The visiting teacher was a wealthy Philippino who helped many people in her country. At that time seeing Amie and her girls she knew she had to "teach these people to fish!" She took them to the hospital and they lived! The one daughter was left handicap and blind! But Amie learned to make pearl jewelry and was able support her family! She is a very strong women and a very loving mother!