JARVIN'S PHOTO-BIOGRAPHY

 

Jarvin is currently studying psychology at the Universidad Latina in San Jose, Costa Rica.  Please click here to see how you can support Jarvin in his college studies.

 

Above:  Jarvin poses with Michael Miller and Nelson during a break from his college studies in Costa Rica in January 2010.

 

Above:  Jarvin visits his mom at her home in September 2008.  Jarvin was in Tegucigalpa for a week during a break from classes at the Universidad Latina in Costa Rica.  Jarvin transferred to the Universidad Latina in 2008 to begin a major in psychology.

 

Jarvin spent part of 2006 and 2007 in Houston, Texas studying English at Houston Baptist University.

 
Jarvin celebrated his high school graduation on November 13, 2004.  It was a huge event in his life!  Here, he stands with his sister, brother-in-law and brother Darwin.

 
Jarvin was on the streets at an early age, escaping a home of miserable poverty and violence.  Before coming to the Micah Project in January 2000, Jarvin lived in another orphanage for several years.  There, he was able to begin his schooling and finish through the sixth grade.  The home in which he was living closed down in 1999.   Jarvin has studied theater at a local cultural center for four years.  He is the lead in many of the dramas that the Micah boys present. As an 18 year-old, Jarvin is a true leader in the Micah House.   In 2001, Jarvin lead his younger brother Darwin to give up a life of drug abuse and to join the Micah Project.  He continues to be a stabilizing influence in his younger brother's life.  In 2003, Jarvin teaches third and fourth grade at a local soup kitchen in the afternoons, while studying at the 11th grade level in our home-schooling program.  Above, the two brothers pose together at Darwin's six-month anniversary of leaving the streets.                             ~ March, 2002

 

Here, Darwin and Jarvin pose with their mom in front of her home in Tegucigalpa.   September 2002.

 
Jarvin has studied theater at a local cultural center for four years.  He is the lead in many of the evangelical dramas that the Micah boys present.  Here, Jarvin presents a skit called "Street Children."        February, 2002

 
Before coming to the Micah Project, Jarvin lived in another center for street children for several years.  Above, he poses in 1997 when he was 13 years old!

 
The above photo was taken in 1995, soon after Jarvin left the streets!

 
While living at another orphanage, Jarvin spent a couple of years in the Boy Scouts!  ~ 1995

 
Jarvin was on the streets at an early age, escaping a home of miserable poverty and violence.  This picture was taken of Jarvin when he was a seven or eight year-old street child.

Birthday:  October 6, 1984