Career teacher stuck to education in spite of trauma and tragedy

Anisah Woolford-Saunders, her husband Joseph and son Jonathon

It has been seven years and four pregnancies since Anisah Woolford-Saunders lost her unborn child when a bullet meant for the pursuers of a fleeing bandit struck her, sending her into months of physical pain.

Today she still battles with the emotional pain from time to time. But the teacher said she never lost sight of who she was or her main goal of educating the nation’s children. February 23, 2012 is a day she will never forget. She was preparing for her son Jonathon’s birthday party and was outside on her landing when a bullet pierced her four-month pregnant belly.

Her time in the hospital is still hazy. She was between the High Dependency Unit and the Intensive Care Unit at intervals; many of those days she was semi-conscious and in severe physical and emotional pain.