By Andria Jasper | Media Coordinator
Uma is a client who us and 2 other organizations have been collaborating to help, she has three children. Before she graduated from HOS to live in the community in early April, these three organizations met to figure out how best to support her. It wasn’t an ideal time for her to move out since her youngest was still a baby. She had come to live at Home of the Swallow when she was 6 months pregnant. She had planned to live with her 16 year old niece who was living in foster care elsewhere. We tried to encourage her to focus first on supporting herself, her baby, and her two older children who were living with family, but she had a strong passion to help with her niece, because she had been abandoned by her own parents at a very young age.
After Uma moved into the community to live independently, she was able to receive support from all three organizations to varying degrees. It will likely take her 3 months to adjust and it will be helpful for her to have support especially during this first period. She chose to live very close to our project in order to still be around the community she has come to be apart of through our project.
When she first moved, things were very difficult. She would come eat with the women and staff and cry with our house mother, because of the challenges of adjusting to life with her niece. Her niece would wake up late and not help at all around the house. Uma’s training from our project made it hard to accept these circumstances with her niece. Our house mother advised her to change her strategy and the way she was talking to her, encouraging her to be patient and calm, and continue communicating to her in love. Uma felt better after spending time with our house mother.
Uma followed the recommendations and has seen the situation improving. She continued working hard at her sewing job and began earning a good income, enough to make it possible to cover her expenses this month. We believe that when Uma sets out to do something and is willing to persevere through issues that might arise because she desires to provide for her children and niece.
By Jen Dao | Work Project Developr
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