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Galia
When she was one year old Galia weighed just 5.1 kilos and
her height was only 27 inches. The doctors contacted us
because they were
very concerned for her and felt that she might actually die if she didn’t
receive some motherly love urgently. This is when she became
part of our family. Today Galia is five but she is still very small
and weighs just 14.5 kilos. She can only eat very small amounts of food,
so we have to feed her six times a day. She is a very frail child
and so we have to massage her muscles each day, to improve her
strength.
She also needs specialist help with her speech. However, she
is a very intelligent little girl and quite mischievous in a nice way.
She likes dancing and her dream is to play the violin. |
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Viktor
It’s hard to believe that when Viktor first came into our family,
at four years of age, his front teeth had been broken by his parents!
He didn’t know how to talk and he was learning with a two year
old. As a result of the traumas he has faced, his memory is very poor,
he doesn’t have abstract thinking or spatial imagination and
it is very difficult for him to study. However, he is very good at
drawing
and painting. He also likes to mould characters in Plasticine.
Viktor is a very kind young man and he likes sports, especially, football
and running. He is growing very quickly at the moment, so the financial
support is a big help to us when we need to be buying new clothes
and
shoes. Thank you so much to everyone. |
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Sonia
This sweet little girl lived in the shelter for about six months
with
her younger sister. She was classified
as having
a learning disability. With no special help available, her childhood
would have been spent in an institutionalized orphanage where
she would have no opportunity to achieve anything in life. Sonia
now lives
in a loving family home, with lots of encouragement and within
just one month, her new school teacher was so impressed with
her work that
she used her exercise book as an example for the rest
of the class. As you can imagine, Sonia feels very special now
and she
knows that she is loved. |
'When
it happened, the significance of the scene was not obvious,
but later I realized why the tour of her little bedroom meant
so much to Sonia. She had proudly shown us the space
that
is now her room. No longer a dormitory with lots of other children
but a place for Sonia and her sister. I particularly noticed
that the wardrobe was so neat with clothes folded in little
piles, like
they might have been on display in a high street shop and now
I realize that this is probably the first time that Sonia has
had
any clothes she could really call her own.'
Every little girl likes to dream but when there is no hope, dreams
are quickly forgotten. It’s nice to know that Sonia is dreaming
again and now she wants to become the director of our charity one
day! Go for it Sonia!
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