Stories
From the street to the front of the room.
The best proof we have isn’t a number. It’s the people we pulled off the street who grew up, came back, and now do the pulling. Here are a few of them.
Coordinator of the day center
Ema
Arrived from a family that couldn’t carry her, and grew up with us.
Ema grew up inside the center: eight years of breakfasts, school runs, the church, and people who didn’t leave. She moved through the children’s group, then started helping with the younger ones. This month she walked back in not as a child but as the coordinator, responsible for the next 35. Next year she wants to study dentistry in Brazil.
Every child here is a future Ema. €30 a month buys them the years it takes to become one.
Leaders in the work
Samir & Melani
Samir came up through the orphanage; Melani from a stable family.
Samir came up through the orphanage and this center, and two of his brothers passed through our Half Way Home farm. Melani grew up in a stable family. They met inside the work, and they married. Today they help lead it: running the camps, holding the community together, trusted by local families in a way only someone who has lived it can be.
Their succession isn’t a plan on paper; it’s already standing in the room.
On their way up
The graduates
Four children finished primary school this year.
Gabriel, Mustafa, Adna and Angela, all Roma children from broken families, are heading to secondary school, most of them carrying on. One finished top of his class and is aiming for medical school. A kid who started on the street, aiming at medicine. That’s what a few years, a hot meal, and someone who believes will do.
This is the cycle mid-turn. Your monthly gift is what keeps it turning.
