Albertina Nyantee was born into a family with limited resources in Yekepa, Nimba County. Four months after Albertina’s birth, her father got a scholarship through the Catholic Archdiocese to study in the United States, and the family’s financial struggle began. Her mother rented a one-bedroom apartment and obtained scholarships for Albertina and her sister to attend Catholic schools in exchange for cleaning the church every Saturday.

The Catholic nuns loved Albertina for her dedicated service and took her on mission trips to nearby villages to provide food, clothes, and preach the gospel to the poor. she was given  the responsibility to set up the altar for the priest before mass, and she became the choir leader for the children’s mass. However, her mother’s financial struggles led her to give away some of her children to relatives, and Albertina was mistreated severally. Albertina was sent to Monrovia to live with another relative to have a father figure and a better education. However, she ended up being a maid for the relative’s children. Because of the brutal abuses, Albertina went through, she always said to herself that if she ever becomes successful, she will rescue children from similar situations.

At 16, her foster relative kicked her out, and she moved in with her mom in a remote neighborhood. She dropped out of school for a year and later enrolled in a school she did not like. , Albertina came back to her former city to pick up the rest of her belongings and encountered a young girl going through the same treatment she went through

That little girl was Albertina’s first rescue child victim.. She rescued the girl, and they traveled to Monrovia together, where Albertina turned her over to another family member to live with and she stayed there for a couple of years. Later, she migrated to the United States to live with some of her relatives.