Nanny Betty cares for boys
Betty loves boys of all ages.
If you’ve visited the Orphanage in the last five years, you’ve probably met Betty. She is the cheerful, smiling nanny in the boys’ dorm, caring for thirteen boys, ages 5 to 16. As a single mom, Betty began working at the Orphanage to care for her boys.
Betty and her sons, Leonardo and Pablo, live at the Orphanage, sleeping in the boys’ dorm. Every morning there’s the rush of cleaning, dressing, breakfast and off to school. Throughout the day, when the boys aren’t at school, there is the general busyness of homework, watching the boys, keeping them out of trouble, from eating bugs or the other fun things that boys do. At night, baths and bed time; that’s the normal schedule. Frequently there are sick kids; just this week, several kids had chicken pox. Helping the other workers means Betty also does plenty of laundry, cooking and cleaning. It is a tough job that is twenty-four hours a day, six days a week.
The other day, Betty told me how she enjoys her job. It is her boys’ home. On her days off, when Betty goes into town, Pablo and Leonardo ask to stay back at the Orphanage with their friends. Betty smiled as she told me how her boys are brothers with the other boys at the Orphanage. And Betty is mom to them all.
When you think of the Orphanage boys, remember Betty, smiling and chuckling at her many boys’ antics. They are in good hands.