Denease's life is being changed.
Denease from Belize is one of many students who is being sponsored. Her sponsors are Dewayne and Dyneshia from Memphis, Tennessee.
Denease lives in a village of approximately 200 people in the Stann Creek District of Belize. She is in her second year of high school at the age of fifteen. She lives with her mother and father in a two bedroom house. The village does not have electricity but Denease’s family has running water. Her parents are literate and work as a fisherman and tour guide. She also has one brother and two sisters.