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At our Gambia program, everyone is hard at work building a new computer lab for the secondary school students! Internet access is crucial to a student's education and overall success in school, and very few students have phones or access to online information at all. According to UNICEF: Two thirds of the world’s school-age children – or 1.3 billion children aged 3 to 17 years old – do not have internet connection in their homes, according to a new joint report from UNICEF and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Nearly a quarter of a billion students worldwide are still affected by COVID-19 school closures, forcing hundreds of millions of students to rely on virtual learning. For those with no internet access, education can be out of reach. Even before the pandemic, a growing cohort of young people needed to learn foundational, transferable, digital, job-specific and entrepreneurial skills to compete in the 21st century economy. The digital divide is perpetuating inequalities that already divide countries and communities, the report notes. Children and young people from the poorest households, rural and lower income states are falling even further behind their peers and are left with very little opportunity to ever catch up. Which is why we are so excited for this opportunity for students to expand their learning experience!
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ONETrack International (OTI) is a US-based nonprofit that practices alternative orphan-care solutions around the world, but we are also a registered charity in Greece. Currently Greece is home to over 30,000 refugees who have fled their homes in Ukraine during the conflict... and most are vulnerable families experiencing trauma, loss, family separation, and the economic stress of relocating to a strange country. Men aged 18-60 are not allowed to leave Ukraine, so most of the families arriving are single mothers with children, and the elderly, and all are living in a state of uncertainty.
ONETrack in Greece is supporting our partners who are providing accommodations for mothers and children, provisions of food and school needs and the psychosocial support required from trauma experienced during the invasion. Our goal is to keep families together, keep children out of institutional care, and contribute to their education and health needs.
Thank you to everyone that has already contributed to the Ukraine response; and if anyone is still looking for ways to support Ukrainian families during the refugee crisis; you can still donate to our GlobalGiving Page: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/protect-orphaned-children/
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To some, home is a roof, four walls, a bed, and the reassurance that they will have a place to rest their head when night falls. To others, home is not a place, but a sentiment. A sentiment that no place, four walls, and a roof could replace. A sentiment rooted in culture, family, belonging, and familiarity. For orphaned children, a consistent and stable home is not always guaranteed. The idea of home, changes, at times far away and hard to grasp. Family, heritage, roots, and community are all words, feelings, ideas that should not be taken away from them, even if their home is no longer the walls that once surrounded them.
With the help of organizations such as ONETrack International (OTI), children no longer feel like they’ve lost a home. ONETrack ensures children around the world can thrive through Family Preservation and Transition to Home approaches to orphan-care that are designed to keep families and communities together. Being relocated to extended families, and cities or towns where they grew up, can ensure the sentiment remains, even during the hardest times. A song from their hometown, a recipe passed down generations, a tradition that reminds them of a memory long ago, all these little things will shine a light on their new home.
To learn more about what constitutes a home, we encourage you to read the OTI blog by Allegra Lleo, available here. Additionally, in December 2021, ONETrack released a short film, depicting the importance of keeping children with their families and in their community of birth through a meaningful storytelling experience. Watch the film, “At Home”, here.
Support Family Preservation and Transition to Home approaches by giving today at: https://onetrackinternational.org/.
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For our End of Year Campaign, ONETrack International released our first short film, “At Home”! This film was made possible by the students of SCAD, Savannah College of Art and Design, and in collaboration with ONETrack International. The purpose of the film is to raise awareness of the need and importance of keeping children with their families and in their community of birth through a meaningful storytelling experience. Celebrate with us, and watch "At Home" now!
At ONETrack International, we are reimagining orphan care by ensuring children around the world have the opportunity to thrive through our Family Preservation and Transition to Home approaches to orphan-care which are designed to do just what the film depicts, keep families and communities together.
Support Family Preservation by giving today at: www.give.ONETrackInternational.org. Or, you can also support these children by sharing the short film (https://youtu.be/aXbM5qZNXa4) and raising awareness for family preservation.
Together, we are #ReimaginingOrphanCare.
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