When Beverly Bentham decided that she was going to own her own home, she did whatever it took, including sometimes walking in almost knee-high mud to access the land. But with self-determination and help from others, she finally had a roof over her head and a place to proudly call home.
She, like many others, moved to the community of Bare Root, East Coast Demerara, when there was no infrastructure but filled with the determination to have their own home they never faltered. Today Bentham, a mother and a grandmother, is well established in the community and always one to help others she has formed a charitable organisation called Azeliah’s (which is the combination of the names of her eldest grandchildren) Charitable Foundation through which she does just that.