Jeffrey Estiverne

Jeffrey was born on July 22, 1982 to a single mother in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. After the passing of his mother at the age of 8, he was raised by his grandmother Clairona. He led a simple life living with his uncle SonSon, who was blind since early childhood and paralyzed from waist down. Aunt Titine, who could not read or write, lived in that same 1-bedroom house in the town of Saint Pierre, located a few hours outside of Port-Au-Prince, in the northern part of the country. She also had two kids of her own, Joram and Bernata. The town had no electricity or running water. Food had to be grown in order to eat or sell it at a local town market. Then the food was cooked on rocks like the olden days. Water had to be carried by hand from miles and miles away. He later moved to the United States, at age 13, to live with his father, along with three other half-siblings, Ineldo, Appolinair, and Jean, in a small 2-bedroom apartment in Stamford, Connecticut. At the time, his father Israel, had j