A Guyanese-American mother once found herself searching for childcare and realizing how difficult it was to find support she could truly trust.
Instead of giving up, she built what she was searching for.
Born in New Amsterdam Hospital in Corentyne, Berbice, she migrated to the United States at the age of six. Reflecting on her childhood today, she speaks openly about difficult experiences that once shaped her understanding of care, responsibility, and resilience. She described parts of her upbringing as feeling “like Cinderella,” carrying emotional weight and responsibilities at a young age. Yet today, she speaks not from bitterness, but from healing, thanking God for the life she has built and the perspective she has gained through time.
She credits much of her entrepreneurial mindset to her mother, whom she describes as a strong woman who instilled discipline, values, faith, and perseverance into her children. Those lessons would later shape not only how she approached business, but how she approached motherhood and community care.
Today, she is a mother of three and also an adoptive mother to one young boy. Faith remains central to how she lives her life, and throughout our conversation she repeatedly credited God, alongside her family and support system, for helping her continue forward through different seasons of life.
She also made clear that motherhood does not happen in isolation.
For many mothers, especially those balancing work, family responsibilities, and survival in the United States, childcare becomes more than convenience, it becomes infrastructure. It becomes the difference between being able to continue building one’s life or becoming overwhelmed by the weight of doing everything alone.
This reality reflects a broader national issue. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the lack of affordable and accessible childcare remains one of the largest barriers to workforce participation and economic mobility for families, particularly impacting women and low-income households. Childcare access directly affects a parent’s ability to maintain employment, pursue education, and create long-term financial stability.
Still, she acknowledges that trusting someone else with your child can feel deeply uncomfortable.
The process requires discernment, patience, and the right provider. Trust is not automatic. It is built through consistency, safety, communication, and care. But when families do find the right environment, she believes something important happens: parents regain the ability to breathe, work, build, and move forward with greater stability.
In many ways, her daycare became an extension of the “village” people often speak about but struggle to find.
During the conversation, she expressed gratitude for the people who became part of that village in her own life, her husband, children, parents, grandparents, sister-in-law, and Ms. Satty, all of whom helped support, encourage, and carry her through difficult moments.
Their presence reminded her that care is rarely built alone.
Through faith, motherhood, entrepreneurship, and community, her story reflects a larger truth shared by many families across the diaspora: sometimes the support systems we search for are ultimately the ones we are called to help create for others.
Berbice Peace®
Source
U.S. Department of Labor — “The Economics of Childcare Supply in the United States” https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/topics/childcare