Mothers, babies and experiences

Child Sponsorship Program - Psychological hindrances

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:49:05 GMT

People around me refer to my program of child sponsorship in Moscow as a reliable and realistic [I don't have the description of the program in English, in short, it's just ordinary sponsorship, widely spread in America and Europe, adopted to the local realities]
BUT
very few of them would like to join (though they all are very nice and helpful people, give you my word!)
The most popular opinions are:

1) It's too serious responsibility to start communication and create emotional links with an orphan child. Better just donate things and money...
2) I had a troubled childhood (single parent family, lived with grandparents rather than parents, which often happens in Russia, etc), so I have my own problems similar to those children's, so I won't be able to communicate with them and cheer them up in an appropriate way.

What should I answer these people to encourage them?

Striving for a grant! - links

Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:40:01 GMT

Here some people from childsponsors kindly helped me

Striving for a grant! - beginning

Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:35:35 GMT

Recently a friend of mine started to collect things for an orphange in Moscow region. I've read some info on helping orphanges and decided that system of child sponsorship, which works at Europe, America etc is MUCH more reasonable.
So, I've put aside my perinatal studyies for a while and focused on perspectives of child sponsorship in Russia.

Today I've returned from my dacha - country-house - and incidentally read in a local paper that the Goverment holds a competition of youth's social initiative projects and there are reasonable chances of winning a grant!
What's more, my call to their office was the first ;-)))

Please, wish me good luck for the benifit of the orphans and all the sencient beings!

...[london]...

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 06:59:16 GMT

All my merits created by today's activities I dedicate to the victims.

OM MANI PADME HUM
OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SOHAM
OM VAJRASATTVA A

Social work

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:22:21 GMT

Until now I've been studying in Russian State Social University. The name of my uni influenced names of the subjects very much: we've had social work, social pedagogics, social planning, social feminology etc. But we hardly had 2 or 3 lections on each of "social" subjects. It was all nominally, not actually...

Now, after meeting with a woman whose child suffers from cerebral spastic infantile paralysis (BTW, what' the correct abbriviation for this?) and involving into my friend's project of raising things for the orphanage, I feel that I need reliable instruments of work as a psychologist.

Something more than a cup of tea in a warm kitchen for pregnant teens who has nowhere to go. Something more legal than my aikido-mates to avoid family violence against them.
So, I'm getting down to social work which is rather new thing here, in Russia...

Studies in Asylum

Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:53:33 GMT

So, first note in this journal.

I've recently attended 2-days course on mental disorders during pregnancy and brestfeeding. The 1-st day was theoretical and the second one - supervision. We have seen 3 women from an asylum in Moscow.
One of the cases was terribly sad (though not very serious from psychiatric point of view): quite a young woman lost her son in a car accident when he was one year old. Then she had reactive depression for several month, visited a doctor only once and he advised her to return to work. So she braced her heart and began to work. Meanwhile her husband began to drink but she stayed with him having in mind the plan to have another baby with the same man to replace her lost. And she succeeded in it but after baby's birth different symptoms appeared: derealization, lost of body control etc. Now she is being treated as in-patient and still cannot return to her new born baby, who she had been waiting with eagerness and terrible anxienty.