By HELPER/ Kids House Mongolia
It’s Sunday afternoon. The house has been cleaned from top to bottom.
The tables in the family units are neatly set. A mouth watering smell out of the kitchen is floating through the house.
The kids are running around with excitement.
The great day has come at last: Family visiting!
Fathers, mothers, and siblings, if there are, are invited to join us for a time of fellowship.
For days the kids have been looking forward to this time with excitement.
But most of them are fearfully asking themselves:” Will there be someone coming for me?”
They all have had their painful experiences.
But apart from Ariuna, whose mom lives far away in the countryside, everyone has at least one visitor.
The house is packed with people. The kids proudly show their rooms to their relatives, sing songs, perform a play, recite poems.
They are absolutely thrilled. But some parents are in tears.
In spite of all the joy that a reunion brings, some of the fathers or mothers painfully realise the loss of that great treasure – Family – through alcoholism or other issues in their lives.
That was true for Batbaatar’s mother. She has been an alcoholic and lived a chaotic life.
But on this afternoon after a conversation with a staff member she spontaneously decides
to enter a rehabilitation programme.
Just a quick phone call to such a rehab and they could directly take her there.
She didn’t pass by at home, because the guy she is living with would not allow her to leave.
Enkusch’s father, who just was released from prison last winter, has tears in his eyes
as he reunites with his happy son in the safety of his new home.
Another child and his mother are in tears embracing each other. Reconciliation is taking place. This is exactly one of our goals: giving a hand with the restoration of family relationships and reintegration of the kids into their families.
We do believe that this great day was one big step into this direction.
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