“I tell people that I’m not rich but I’m not at the bottom and I tell myself, from what I have, I could help or I could ask people to assist with these children in my village who really need.”By Dale Andrews People are special for so many different reasons. Our special person this week, for instance, is not a scholar – she does not have a Master’s Degree or a Doctorate. But what she lacks in the area of academia, she more than makes up for with a heart as large as the Atlantic and as soft as sponge.It’s not that she is a pushover- far from that – for she is also known for her stand against injustice meted out to her fellow citizens, especially those in her home community of Buxton/Friendship on the East Coast of Demerara.Evelyn Edwards-Estwick Today, she is one of the leading lights of the “cultural Buxton”, blazing the trail in Emancipation celebrations and other village activities that she values so much to dedicate most of her time.Evelyn Edwards-Estwick, was born February 11, 1961,MLB Jerseys From China, at Buxton Middle Walk, to Buxtonian Rudolph Edwards better known as ‘Papa’ and Enid Edwards, who hailed from Charlestown in the city.As a child growing up in Buxton during the sixties and early seventies, Eve, as she is affectionately called, was no stranger to hard work and discipline, after all in those days, Buxton was at the forefront of producing Guyanese who had already left their mark on Guyanese society in a positive way.During those early days of her life, although she did not have to struggle much, she learnt the value of hard work from her father, who was very much into farming, and who to this day is still in the vocation.It should not be surprising that tilling the land was the Kindergarden lesson for the young Eve and her siblings.“We grew up in farming because my father is a farmer, until now. He is still alive and still farming,” she boasted.For Eve, even though she was a girl, like almost every child in the village there was no way she could escape tending to the pigs her father reared and the large kitchen garden the family cultivated, before and after school, for five days of the week.Her early education was obtained at the Friendship Government School where she wrote the College of Preceptors (CP) examinations in the early 70s before leaving school.In those days it was not always enough for a Buxtonian to just leave school with just a CP certificate, so Eve attended extra lessons with a view to writing the GCE O’Level examinations.But then the government took over the private institution she was attending and for some reason, that put paid to any plans to continue. This was a bit strange for someone who later turned out to be as strong-willed as Eve.“I grow up knowing people like Winifred Gaskin teaching me in school. Eusi Kwayana used to help me with English. We would sit down in County High School and he would teach us,” Eve reflected.Learning did not stop there, however, for she took to the African groups that were prevalent in her community, and this nurtured her Afro-centric qualities in the precious teenaged years.But by the early 1980s Eve, who had married Lindener Lennox Estwick? in December 1980, and was a mother of two,? begun to focus on the financial side of her life, and turned to trading in goods that were prohibited in that period.She described her days of being married as challenging, since while she was the trader, her husband favoured the pen and paper, working at the Guyana National Cooperative Bank.“Times were really rough… and only people with reasonable money could buy the flour to eat. We start going to Brazil, going to Trinidad and bring flour,” Eve recalled.It was in those days that she had her first real encounters with the police.“Sometimes the police chase our boat and we running away to hide and your things wet up and you hustling to see what you could do to hide yuh lil goods, yuh two bags with butter and suh to come and make a lil dollar,” she said with a smile on her face as if she was actually reliving the time.Fortunately,Cheap Jerseys China, she was never locked up, maybe because as she put it, “I coulda beg a lot.”But then something happened that changed Eve’s perspective on life. She moved from Buxton to the neighbouring village of Friendship, where she had acquired a piece of land to build her house.It was there she started to see herself as a person who had to help her fellow villagers.“To me, Friendship is a poorer area. The poorer set of people come from Friendship, from the (railway) line go back. If you look in the area you will the poorest state of houses and the poorest state of children,” Eve stressed.It was seeing the children with their tattered clothes and muddy appearance that touched something in her and she told herself that she must do something to help them.And having children who mixed freely with others, her hom