Graduate Highlights
“At ECC, I found my place and comfort zone”
– Alicia Adderly
Alicia Adderley, class of ’14, is in her tenth year as a teaching assistant at Every Child Counts. She began as a volunteer after graduation working with the primary teachers and was hired as a full-time aide the following year. Alicia started in the kitchen then worked with our Communications and Sensory specialist where she learned the skills she still uses today as the primary teacher assistant with our youngest preschool students.
Alicia, who has learning disabilities, commuted from Sandy Point at age 11 to attend ECC so that she could receive more individualized instruction. When asked about her time at ECC as a student, she reflected that she had found a comfort zone that she did not have in the government school and that “she had found her place”. She gained confidence in herself and enjoyed helping the other children who needed help like she had needed. It was important to her to give back.
Alicia graduated with an academic degree after completing internships at Little Angels Academy and Every Child Counts working with the younger population.
Alicia says “working at ECC is great”. She is still learning as she often researches online after school for lesson plan ideas and is participating in online classes on autism. She is looking forward to earning her teaching assistant certificate which will be offered at ECC in the coming year. Alicia now lives in Crossing Rocks with her 7 year old daughter and near her mother and brother. Her grandmother still lives in Sandy Point.
In the 20 years that Every Child Counts have continued striving for its mission of making a difference one by one in the Abaco community and the Bahamas in general, we are proud to present these wonderful individuals, our ECC Gradutates:
