Here are a few scenarios of girls we expect to come across in our work with Path of Hope. Unfortunately many of these scenarios are very common in Ugandan culture and most of these stories we come across quite often.
Often a girl in this common predicament simply needs a safe place to live while the family issues get sorted. Path of Hope would offer such a girl emergency shelter, prenatal care and personal counseling, as well as family mediation. If family reunification proves to be impossible or unsafe, we would then place the girl in our 2 year prog
Often a girl in this common predicament simply needs a safe place to live while the family issues get sorted. Path of Hope would offer such a girl emergency shelter, prenatal care and personal counseling, as well as family mediation. If family reunification proves to be impossible or unsafe, we would then place the girl in our 2 year program with skills training, discipleship and parenting classes in hopes that she would be able to be independent and raise her child after completing the program.
This is a case where legal action would have to take place in a tactful way that protects the young girl as much as possible. Local child protective services would be brought in to investigate the case while the girl stays safely in our emergency home. Medical care, personal counseling, family mediation and justice would be the key eleme
This is a case where legal action would have to take place in a tactful way that protects the young girl as much as possible. Local child protective services would be brought in to investigate the case while the girl stays safely in our emergency home. Medical care, personal counseling, family mediation and justice would be the key elements for such a situation with a vulnerable child. If family mediation is not successful and both the young mother and the unborn baby are not safe enough for family reunification, the young mother would join our 2 year program (with room for extension) or be placed in a trusted foster home overseen by Path of Hope. The young mother would continue studies while receiving medical care and counseling from our center.
Such a situation is heartbreaking and unfortunately not unheard of. It certainly leaves a girl feeling hopeless and out of options, but at Path of Hope we seek to help girls find hope no matter what dark situation they find themselves in! Since a girl in this situation would need intense counseling, medical care and discipleship, she woul
Such a situation is heartbreaking and unfortunately not unheard of. It certainly leaves a girl feeling hopeless and out of options, but at Path of Hope we seek to help girls find hope no matter what dark situation they find themselves in! Since a girl in this situation would need intense counseling, medical care and discipleship, she would be protected and immediately enrolled in our 2 year program and justice would also be sought for the perpetrator. She may choose to go to school or she may choose to learn a skill, but we are willing to walk hand in hand with her as she discovers all the possibilities God has for her!
Path of Hope would be called upon to handle many different angles of a case such as this. Foster care for the siblings, family tracing for the mother, medical care, counseling and skills training for the new young mother and possibly counseling for the young father if he is willing to take on the responsibility and marry the girl after she has successfully finished the 2 year program.
This girl desperately needs the healing and counseling we can give her at Path of Hope. When being made aware of this situation Path of Hope would quickly react to get the girl admitted into our emergency home so she could receive medical care, one on one counseling, be registered for our 2 year program and also see to getting the siblings in safe foster families. Intense oversight and counseling would be priority before she could be in the right mindset to decide on schooling or a trade. Such a girl could expect upwards of 2 years at Path of Hope.
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