{"id":8827,"date":"2020-12-29T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adopcianadialku.sk\/childrensdonation\/?p=8827"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:59:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T10:59:32","slug":"a-year-filled-with-gratitude-and-5-200-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adopcianadialku.sk\/childrensdonation\/a-year-filled-with-gratitude-and-5-200-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"A year filled with gratitude and 5 200 stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201eDear adoptive mum, I sincerely thank you for your love, help and care for me during the past school year. Some classes in school were easy, others I struggled with. I was trying hard to get good grades. I succeeded and my school results were excelent. I want to be a doctor in the future, so I can help the poor. I am very grateful, that I\u2019m able to continue my studies, thanks to your help,\u201c<\/em> these kind words wrote in her letter to a donor from Slovakia vietnamese student Le Thi Thanh.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coronavirus and questions, that worried everyone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The past year was difficult in every country, where we help through Children\u2019s Donation Program\u00ae. Schools were frequently and somewhere permanently closed, due to coronavirus. The pandemic brought a lot of problems, changes, uncertainty. To us here in Slovakia, but also to our partner organizations, coworkers and the children in need. Since March, we have been experiencing great uncertainty and concerns. We were worried by questions without clear answers: \u201eWhat\u2019s next? How will it go?\u201c It wasn\u2019t possible to estimate the development in countries, such as Vietnam, India, Haiti or Uganda. The news were full of very difficult information regarding developing and poor countries. People in India or in Vietnam hadn\u2019t been afraid just of the pandemic, but mainly of hunger, that it would bring. Borders being closed or movement being limited have meant loss of opportunities of at least day labour, that\u2019s indispensable for millions of poor families all across the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many Ugandan children and families live in great poverty. The Coronavirus has only worsened their situation.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Even when the times are quieter, millions of men and women in these countries don\u2019t know if they\u2019ll get a job in the morning, working at someone\u2019s field or if someone\u2019ll need to perform a small service, that they\u2019ll get paid for. This minimal wage in the parts of the world, where there\u2019s not enough of stable work positions, helps the poorest people live trhough the day. The pandemic brings the loss of their livelihood. Even more extreme poverty and hunger awaited poor families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our whole project has mobilized for an enormous commintment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of these fears and forecasts has lead us and our colleagues towards trying to find alternatives, how to be close to pooor families and children in difficult life conditions. Our entire project has become even more united in teamwork for the good of the most vulnerable \u2013 the children in every developing and poor country. We have attended dozens of meetings, written hundreds of emails to countries in order to find solutions to help continue and be effective in these specific circumstances.
In one of the reports on their situation from India, our coordinator, nun Joel Lasrado, wrote to us: \u201eThe whole world is in chaos. Younger kids will advance to the next year automatically here, the date of exams for the older ones got delayed. Lots of poor and innocent people have lost their lives. We are on our knees asking God for His mercy. We believe it\u2019ll get better. We assure you of intense prayer support.\u201c<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Indian boy Gerald with family and neighbours. His family and hundreds of other families in India have been supported with packages of rice, lentils and oil by us.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve patently answered hundreds of phone calls and e-amils. Many have asked about the situation in the country of the child or theologian they\u2018re supporting. We\u2019ve considered details of every move we\u2019ve planned to do in the service of our neighbours. We\u2018ve evaluated the risks and took into account the capacities of our field coordinators working in individual countries. Some of them had to undergo quarantine due to coronavirus infection. We thought of them in prayers, so that we would not lose anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to you, we\u2019re close to those in need even in the most difficult times<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In these difficult and uncertain times we\u2019ve felt interest and support from you, our adoptive parents. We\u2018ve received emails and letters of encouragement and reassurance that you were thinking of us and our work. Your support, prayers and postivie feedback mean a lot to us.<\/strong>
The deterioration of the situation of the poorest affects us fundamentally. Photos, questionnaires or letters from the children, that we\u2019re helping, pass through our hands daily. We see their faces, we get to know their stories. We are not indifferent towards the fates of the children in need and in this time especially, we\u2019ve found out, that you\u2019re not indifferent either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We\u2019ve bought mattresses, blankets, school supplies, food and medicine for thousands of Ugandian children<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We are very grateful to all of you, our donors and adoptive parents for supporting orphans, semi-orphans and disadvantaged children. Thanks to the cooperation with you, we\u2019ve been able to support children in need and their families during the coronavirus crisis by distributing material help. <\/strong>This included food packages, hygiene items, medicine and educational materials that children could use for self-study or distanced learning. Thanks to your support, many families have been saved from extreme starvation. Several of you talked about our project to your loved ones, and this year they also started helping children through Children\u2019s Donation Project\u00ae. Some of them wanted to help out of gratitude that they did not lose their job in these times and share what they could with people who are right now in worse situation that we are in Slovakia. So they remotely adopted a girl<\/a> or a boy<\/a> in one of the countries where we help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Haiti, we also support kindergartners through our Children\u2019s Donation Project\u00ae. Thanks to help from Slovakia, they have a better access to drinking water and food.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to you, there are 5 200 children who are getting regular help through our project. It is a great pleasure, but also a great commitment. The participation of each of you means combining small pieces of mosaic into an amazing and rare work of help. The whole year has been very demanding and difficult. At the same time, however, it remains filled with great gratitude. The pandemic did not only bring worries and difficulties. It also showed us a lot of good and brought many deeds of love towards others. Thank you for giving hope and goodness to more than 5,200 specific children. You are forever a part of their life story.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Martina Bor\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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