Family Based CareSustainability, Staff Development, and the Power of a Quiet River
Caring for kids by caring for our staff Cambodia is a primarily agricultural country, and the product that covers most of the landscape, from Battambang to Svay Rieng, is rice. That means that Cambodian people understand the principle of only being able to reap where you sow (or stung, as they call the painstaking process of planting stalks…
CiFChildren in Families·2015-11-02·4 min read
Family Based CareSupporting Families to Care for Children with Disabilities
When I was in college (some 20-plus years ago) I was greatly impacted by a story on a television news show about orphanages in Eastern Europe which housed multiple children with disabilities. It was heartbreaking to see how these children, some of whom had only mild and easily correctible impairments when they first entered the…
CiFChildren in Families·2012-11-06·3 min read
Family Based CareThe Beauty of Family
I grew up on a farm where the air was clean, the grass was plentiful, and the trees were worthy to be climbed. My childhood memories consist of stomping through mud puddles with my older brother, meeting my dad for picnic lunches in the hay fields in summertime, baking cookies with my mother, helping my…
CiFChildren in Families·2012-05-20·1 min read
