Mum & Dad

Life for a child without someone to care for them is unimaginable. Once a street child moves into one of the small, family-style children’s homes we support, they have a Mum and Dad who love them as part of their own family. You can’t put a price on the value of such commitment but you can give financially to help support houseparents.

Estuardo's story...

Who can tell what the love of a Mum and Dad means to a child who has known nothing but pain from the hands of adults?

A few years ago, one of the children from the homes visited the UK. One of our supporters met him at a celebration event and this is what she wrote, "Estuardo stood for nearly ten minutes, watching a mother and her son. The boy he was watching was seven and he was sitting on his Mum’s knee, stroking her face as his Mum cuddled him and stroked his hair. This is the opposite treatment from Estuardo’s experience of his own Mum, who had hurt him so badly, he fled from home. Estuardo obviously so much wanted to be a part of what he saw, that he began to give the son sweets, one at a time. Then he turned to look at me. As I held out my arms to him, he ran straight into my arms and hugged me. When I lifted up his young face, his eyes were wet with tears."

The work of the houseparents in the homes is to give the children the unconditional constant love of committed parents, a love they have never known.

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