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How do we receive reports from South Asia?
ALUMNI, FAMILY, FAMILY REUNIFICATION, FAMILY STRENGTHENING, STORIES, VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS
Have you ever wondered how we keep up with the 700 children and families in our network of care?
Now that there have been reunifications to biological families, there’s a lot more digging for information and reports on the status of the children and their caregivers. Now decentralized geographically, our indigenous South Asian team on the ground is urged to be creative with connection and increase oversight of the child’s wellbeing in a time-sensitive way. We have pastors as the first support team in place and then social workers and field staff that are also present and engaged.
We are now hearing updates about the older children frequently in an informal, twice-per-year manner. Pastor visits and other processes are in place for formal reports from field staff and social workers.
There are 14 staff and included in that number are 6 case workers dedicated to home visits. There are another 4 trained social workers who report three times annually on higher risk children. Hours of travel on buses and trains and the local auto-rickshaws are required to go the distance to rural villages in an overall region the size of Colorado!
Now as many as 250 of our students are attending college. While some of these students are away living in cities, some have just graduated and some are working. We have even had some married earlier than expected due to cultural reasons, but all are now connected with families.
Social workers, pastors and other staff are meeting in person, calling often, and connecting with families at many-times-per-year gatherings with our children and families.
With this army of support for the families,, we get to read all about the child’s hopes, dreams and progress.
Here’s one recent update in January from Rowann*:
Rowann* is now 24 and has been reintegrated into his biological family, living with his mother. His father passed when he was young due to medical complications and he was raised in a local village church for almost a decade. Now through his studies as a nurse he is gaining education and practicum experience in a government hospital in pediatrics and maternal mother care. Part of his work is to help prevent early complications to an unborn child. A highlight for Rowann recently was a medical camp, which he talks about in his last report:
I am very happy about attending this medical camp program. I treated what they wanted to needed patients and we are given some medicine to them. This year I am studying my final year of nursing (as a junior) and we are celebrated in a farewell party for the final year students. My college teachers and my fellow “juniors” (classmates) are cheering me on in my upcoming final year examinations.
Rowann has many plans that include even taking his studies further. His dreams are realistic and he is very dedicated to seeing them through, and giving back to the Restoring Hope community in some way after he establishes a regular salary.
Many of the children tell our staff in their updates that they are “wanting to get a good job to support their family.”
How amazing to see these restored children, bring hope not only for themselves, but to the whole family, inspiring other Restoring Hope children along the way as well!
Once a child receives the holistic support they need to thrive, transformation can take place.
We look forward to sharing more reports of college students like Rowann to help share the impact of your support.
We also will be releasing our very first Annual Report 2022! Please be on the look out for more stories and results from the details of your generous impact!!
*Pseudonym used for safeguarding reasons
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