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About Us ( Staff & Programs )
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- Assessment It is difficult to even comprehend the conditions under which our innocent orphan children
live. It is our saddening and necessary duty to make an assessment of those conditions. The
key to success in all of Lifeline of Hope’s programs is assessment. Lifeline of Hope recognizes that each facility will
have its own strengths and weaknesses and that there can be no standard “care package” without there still being
need and waste. In recognition of this, Lifeline of Hope works to provide aid through programs that address and consider those
unique strengths and weaknesses. In practice, a Lifeline of Hope Program Facilitator makes the individual assessments during a personal visit to the facility as well as consultation with the Directors and others involved in the direction of
the facility. 3- Ongoing
Needs Our children need to know and trust that their ongoing needs will be met. Also
discovered during the assessment are weaknesses that lead to ongoing needs. Often these may be the same as some of the critical
needs and they are usually consumable items that are consistently in short supply. Lifeline of Hope Facilitators will make
regular deliveries of these ongoing needs to prevent a future crisis or emergency at the facility. This helps them to feel Secure and gives them Freedom from Fear…trust and faith. 5- Education and Our children need to have dreams and the hope for fulfillment. They need to know that they are loved and valuable
to themselves and others. Another area that is profiled during the Assessment is Education.
Lifeline of Hope works to provide materials or services that aid in this area, whether it is by purchasing educational materials
or financial assistance to hire additional educators or in some cases, the sole educator. Again every facility is different
and the needs vary from one orphanage to another. The This helps the facility to become more self sufficient while teaching the children necessary life skills that
will help them become active members of their own society, workforce and culture. This gives our children Self
Esteem and the ability to pursue their dreams with newfound talents…truly becoming who they are. Learn More About The Countries We Work In.
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Program
Overview Lifeline
of Hope has designed all of it’s programs to coincide with and provide for what is widely accepted as basic human needs.
When basic physical needs are not being met, the body and mind cannot function properly. Many aspects of growth such as the
ability to learn, trust, bond and love are hindered when these needs are not met. The ability to be spiritual and have faith
or even understand it is diminished when hunger, fear and insecurity are prevalent in our environment. The end results are
varying degrees of illness; physical, mental and spiritual and of course can even lead to death. There
is a chronological order…foundations that must be built in order for us to become a complete person. Whether we know
it or not, we will seek out a way to fulfill those needs. Without healthy direction, the route that we take to fulfill those
needs may likely be a destructive one…for us and for those we interact with. However wrong or destructive those ways may be, if they are successful, they will become
a way of life for the child, even as they grow to adulthood. It is very likely that the adult child will continue to pursue
those needs in the way that has provided success in the past. This pursuit might very well be a life of crime. Gangs, Mafia,
Prostitution, perhaps even Terrorism may be the source of these provisions. Once a person becomes an adult and has successfully
achieved basic needs through destructive ways, it is very difficult to convince or influence them to do otherwise. It is all
they know and is actually what they have become. The
goal of the programs of the Lifeline of Hope is to provide the millions of orphans in the world with these basic needs as
a positive and healthy source of these needs. In
doing so, not only are we accomplishing the obvious goal in providing deserving children with the love and care that we want
to give them, but we are investing in the future of this world and the global society by positively impacting these children
that will grow to adults and become what their environment (societal and natural) has made them. That adult will be one who
has achieved their basic needs in a positive healthy way and can therefore be an adult that can become a healthy member of
our global society. The
programs are designed to chronologically meet the Physiological, Safety, Belonging/Love, Self-Esteem and Self Actualization
needs. Education and Spirituality can then be introduced. The child will become more open to, and able to pursue such, as
their physiological needs are met and they begin to feel safe and begin to trust. Next they will understand hope and when
hope materializes as reality…faith. The programs are designed to continue building the remaining foundations necessary
for the child to become a healthy adult as they enter society through adoption or social integration when they leave the facility. 2- Critical Needs Our orphan children are suffering
from the lack of critical needs in the orphanages. Based on the assessment, a list of critical needs is compiled. The Program Facilitator works with the Director
to find and purchase the critical needs and/or services. Critical needs such as food, medicine, hygiene, vaccination and inoculation,
clothing, facility repairs, equipment as well as emergency medical for individual children are among the needs addressed at
this step. This step brings our deserving children the Food Water, Shelter
and Warmth they so desperately need to survive. 4- Mentoring and Nurturing Our children need someone
to wipe away their tears and share in their laughter. Every good parent already knows this, but more and more research is showing the critical need for healthy
human touch and interaction and play during childhood. The lack of these social interactions leads to attachment issues and
can eventually lead to some level of attachment disorder. The greater the level of attachment disorder, the more difficulty
the child will have integrating into society or bonding with other human beings. Lifeline of Hope works to instill a sense of self worth and value in the children. We work to make them feel
loved and cared for through positive interaction in the facilities as well as other social environments. Lifeline of Hope is developing this program to involve paid employees as well as volunteers to spend time with
the children to ensure that they will have regular, visits and activities that include one on one as well as group interaction
that makes them feel special and cared for while minimizing their status as an orphan. We
want them to feel the same warmth, joy, love and belonging as any child. However, there are only a tiny fraction of these children will be adopted by someone in their own country. Because
of this lifeline of Hope promotes adoption during presentations, in literature and via the internet. |
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