Sidetracked from her hoped-for trajectory of becoming a doctor, Pearlita Richardson stepped into the classroom as a teacher and immediately realised her career journey would be different. Today she is not a teacher but her time in the classroom saw her zeroing on the needs of girls and women and as a businesswoman designing clothes and other items she has not wavered.
“I went into teaching and from my very first day in the classroom I realised that I wanted to do something for children… I grew up in a very loving home and I have very supportive parents and when I met the girls in the classroom I realised immediately that their family lives were not as supportive and I saw all the different ways they were affected,” she said in a recent interview with this newspaper.
