HELP The Ark – Hope for unwanted babies

Posted by helper Noah's Ark
Our HELP ministry The Ark on the Philippines cares for unwanted or abandoned kids.
They share: ”Mid-February the Ark’s big exodus began.
Since we said farewell to 5 children.
We released each one of them into a new family.
These moments are always emotional peaks – for the kids and their new parents. We normally take two days to pass on a child to its new family. First of all the family comes for a couple of hours to get to know their child. Up to that point they only saw at photos and reports of the child.
The second day we organize a little party with everybody at The Ark to make it easier to leave and also to express our gratitude. It’s hard to let a child go, however, passing on the responsibility usually means a relief to us. After getting over the pain of saying good bye, there is new room in our hearts and in The Arch for new kids.

When we started with The Ark nine years ago we thought, that each child would grow up with us. But the Philippine government does not allow this for toddlers. So we abandoned that approach. In this way we can have more children and have room for emergency cases.

There are lots of government controls without previous appointments and statistics to be filled in preventing us from such ideas. Despite of this regulation, it’s an advantage for the children if their papers are not processed by the official departments so quickly. This gives them time to get healed in several areas of their young lives and to get used to live in The Ark. The average time for a child to live with us is a year and a half.”
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