Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids

by Kasumisou Foundation
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids
Help Destitute Moms with AIDS Care for Their Kids

Project Report | Dec 28, 2012
Personal Stories from the FSP 2012

By Barbara Rosasco | Secretary & Treasurer

                                                                  Personal Stories from the FSP

As we look forward to the New Yeaer, it is good to look back at how we have spent our time and whether we have achieved our goals.  One of our goals this past year has been to keep you, our supporters, better informed about the impact that your support makes. 

Each of our FSP patient families faces unique challenges, which for most us, are not survivable.  But somehow, these fragile families manage to continue one, one step at a time.  Our FSP provides food, housing and social support. We are the family to these families, coping withimmediate challenges, yet working toward the longer term solutions. Sometimes the changes which we strive so hard to make, are so slow in coming that we can recognize it only in hindsight. For example, by stressing education as a core value over the years, we now have 19 FSP kids in high school. Sometimes, sadly, despite our efforts, we fail as you will read below about Daria.

We hope that sharing these personal stories will you to fully understand the impact of your support and the challenges of our task. The names have been changed for reasons of privacy.

Our deepest thanks to you all for your generous support! Your support has changed and saved many lives.

Our best wishes to you all for 2013.

Barbara & Mark Rosasco

 

Personal Stories from the FSP   2012

Randy ( male, age 20): Randy's mother, an FSP patient, died from AIDS about 10 years ago .  Randy suffers from serious mental retardation  and  he has never recovered from losing his mother.  He  now spends his days helping his 80+ year old grandmother sell vegetables in a market stall  in Phnom Penh.  His 17 year old sister attends school with FSP support.  Our FSP continues to help this family with food and pay rent and the  education expenses of the girl. Our goal is that the girl  can acquire enough education or job skills to support and care for her older brother and her aged grandmother in the future. It has been a long slow process, but without FSP support these children would have almost certainly  been trafficked. Instead, we are on the edge of this fragile family achieving financial independence within the next few years.

Mike  lost his brother to  AIDS about ten years ago.  At that time our FSP supported  Mike, his brother ( the breadwinner) ,  their aged mother and Mike’s four children, in total,  7 people.  Mike’s wife had abandoned the children  to live with another man in their neighborhood.  Although  Mike does not have AIDS, he is mentally unstable and suffers from severe alcoholism and is often unable to care for the family. The FSP has carefully monitored  the condition of Mike’s children over the years and  they are all fine students.  Despite the family’s poverty, Mike’s frequent mental breakdowns, his constant fight with alcoholism and the emotional scars left by  their mother’s abandonment, Mike’s children have managed to survive  and stay together. This fragile family and its  children have been kept together because of the support of the FSP, preventing the children from a tragic life of abuse and trafficking. Instead, they are good students, in a family life and a hope for a brighter future.  

Daria  is a 17 year old girl.  About ten years ago,  Daria lived on a sidewalk in Central Phnom Penh along with her brother, their AIDS afflicted mother and their aged grandmother.  We took the family into the FSP.  Daria’s  mother died from AIDS several years ago and since then they have relied on their grandmother and the support of  our FSP.  Daria’s brother is now about 20 years old and he is in grade 6 at school.  Despite his very limited mental ability, the boy loves school and  tries  his best. He has rejected suggestions to change to  a job training course.  Unfortunately, Daria is a sweet girl but  an indifferent student and  sometimes quite careless. She doesn’t have the  determination of her older brother.  Recently  Daria’s carelessness in missing an arranged   job opportunity  to provide badly needed income for the family,  earned her some criticism from her brother and grandmother as well as from our program staff.  To our greaty distress,  Daria has now run away from home to escape any further criticism.  She is now somewhere on the streets of Phnom Penh  and  our team is searching for her. We hope that  our team or her family will find her or she will decide to come home. Phnom Penh is a dangerous place for an innocent teen and we fear for her safety . We do not want Daria to meet  the tragic fate  of trafficking and enslavement which awaits so many teen age runaways and orphans on the streets of Cambodia’s capital.

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Nov 25, 2012
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I would like to ask one question.....

By Mark Rosasco | President

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Kasumisou Foundation

Location: Menlo Park, California - USA
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Project Leader:
Barbara Rosasco
Secretary/Treasurer
Menlo Park , Ca. United States
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