By Anna Kochineva | Project Leader
We are pleased to inform you that 12 of the 16 girls participating Kidsave's “Teen Mother” program already have mentors. They come in a children's home, hanging out with the girls and their children, help and support them.
Some teen moms will graduate the program in June and will begin an independent life. This is a very difficult and crucial period in their lives. Being part of our program, they learned a lot, but now they have to learn all this knowledge into practice: to take care of their babies, keep house, to study and find a job. And they really need support of caring adult who is able to share his or her experience and provide a support.
Girls who graduate the program already have their own apartments, but these apartments should be prepared for comfortable living of mother with a child. Mentors help girls to design an apartment, choose furniture, utensils needed in the household stuff. Mentors share their experience of forming a family budget, planning costs. For girls who have lived in an orphanage often do not know how much food they should buy for the week and so on. At Mentor’s Club, which Kidsave organizes every month at the club, specialists tell mentors how to transfer knowledge about the legal and financial literacy, how to teach them to be independent.
We are pleased to see that mentors and girls have warm and trusting relationship, true friendship. Angelina and her mentor Elena met at one of Kidsave’s events and became close. Their fates are similar, as well as Angelina Elena lost his parents when she was a child, so she knows what her mentee feels and she can find the right words of encouragement.
Elena comes to Angelina in the orphanage, they are walking along with the baby Vasilisa, share news, future planning of Angelina. "Although I recently met with Elena, I feel that I can trust her – Angelina says. - I am happy when she comes, I can share my problems with her. We play with Vasilisa together. I became calmer".
Thank you for your support!
By Yulia Koval-Molodtsova | Project Leader
By Yulia Koval-Molodtsova | Project Leader
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