Help Children with Special Needs Learn and Connect

Dear friends and supporters,

We hope you are doing well. We would like to thank you for supporting our children with special needs  to learn and connect despite current challenging time of Covid-19.  Thank you all for your financial donations and prayers during this difficult time. The pandemic has had a devastating effect on our families, with most of our children miss out on attending support club and their usual activities, which effected their  personal development and growth. Understanding the gravity of the pandemic situation, we decided to roll out virtual classes, right from mid 2020 with support funding from our local council and Bromley Well, with the intention of ensuring that our children could continue with their classes, interact with their peers and tutor from the comfort of their homes. Since last year, we have engaged our students in a range of activities, to keep them engaged at home mixing with some family outings and educational trips during school holidays. It has been a very challenging time for many organisations but with your financial contributions and prayers, we continue to support our members as much as we can.

Destiny Children and Family support project was established to give carers and parents a short break and at the me time support children with learning disabilities such as  Autism, ADHD, William Syndrome, and other additional needs to learn and develop in their social communication,  life skills and engage them in creative social activities to develop their understanding , communication and social life skills.

We also support their parents and carers through monthly support forums where they share ideas, learn new valuable information from guest speakers and also provide them with the opportunity to have family day outings together, which for many is very rare. The project is helping to combat isolation, empower families with information and knowledge and bring people together using zoom platform and what's app group. The forum is led by parents and is giving the platform to all carers including young carers to share their ideas, tips, experiences and discuss common issues and empower parents and carers to strives in life.

As a charitable organisation, we will continue to support our members by sharing valuable information for health and well-being via our Destiny children and Family Support group on WhatsApp and Zoom Club . We also continue with the provision of food donation via fare share food distribution to our members once a week by delivering free parcel food to our members' home as needed.

Our weekly virtual tutorial classes and creative social activities for young carers and SEN children continue on Zoom  every week on Wednesday 5pm-7pm and Monthly Peer Support Forum continue to be held on the 1st Monday of each month from 11am to 1pm.  We're pleased to say that we have recently resumed our  drops in sessions as face to face activities for the children's club as respite service .

Children and young people continue to engaged in arts, crafts and educational games, reading story books, maths and creative social activities where children and young people are supported to engage in learning and create useful small objects in arts, and use their imagination to be creative on zoom and in person at the club. They will be able to socialise and form friendships. It is so wonderful to know that, some of the materials and support costs were been paid for from the contributions that you have all made to this project. Our work is only possible through the kind donations and support from our incredible donors like you.

We are hoping to increase more activities in this summer holiday but will depend on the funding support and on your valuable contributions, as the project is not yet fully funded. Our work rely on grant funding, your donations from GlobalGiving. We do hope that you will continue to support us again. Please continue to support us as we need your help than ever. Please donate and  share our project page with your network by Click here to Support Children with Autism to Learn and Connect .

Your donations are the key in conducting such educational activities and offering support to our children and families.  Your donations and generous contributions are the reasons that our children could blossom and build their social  skills and n self-confidence  which helps the children improve further for a better future. We hope that you will continue to support them and shower them with compassion.

If you have any questions or would like to engage with this project in some way, please feel free to email us at info@lwfci.org.uk and we will get in touch with you. See our website for more information www.lwfci.org.uk

From all of us at Lay Witnesses For Christ International -UK.  A very BIG thank you.

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• our charity website
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Dear friends and supporters,

We are writing to give you more updates of what we have been doing with your financial support over the last 3 months, in helping children with special needs to learn and connect .We would like to thank you first and take this opportunity to give you  updates of our charitable work, in helping children with special needs to learn and connect. Thank you all for your financial support and prayers during this difficult time of Covid-19. It has been a very challenging time for many organisations but with your financial contributions and prayers, we continue to support our members as much as we can.

Destiny Children and Family support project continues to offer Virtual weekly tutoring and creative social activities to children with special needs and monthly family support forums for parent and carers. The adults session is a peer support forum for adults carers (parents and carers and siblings of children with special needs and disabilities ) which continues to run once a month on the 1st Monday of each month from 11am -1pm . Our adult carers have been affected by the pandemic, feel anxious and unsupported due to the lockdown. The forum is helping to combat isolation, empower families with information and knowledge and bring people together using zoom platform and what's app group. The forum is led by parents and is giving the platform to all carers including young carers to share their ideas, tips, experiences and discuss common issues as carers. We invite professional guest speakers every month to share valuable information on how to deal with challenging issues and empower parents and carers to strives in life

As you all know, COVID-19 still around and to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our members, the project has been adapted virtually online on zoom instead of face to face group meeting. 

This winter, we have had 3 monthly parents /carer support forums , 12 weekly Tutorial classes and creative virtual social activities for children and young people on Zoom as of today.

Each month, we had different professional guest speakers at each forum with different topic to discuss and share relevant information to empower our families on Health, education and wellbeing. Our recent topic was "Coping with Isolation and Health Issue related to Covid-19". It was an engaging forum were our members was asking questions and shared ideas to support each others during the session. The forums we had so far are empowering parents carers with knowledge and is building strong connection where parents are connecting with each other's and support one another.   

Our Tutorial classes and creative virtual social activities has been running every week on Wednesdays from 5pm to 7pm since October. We have been running it in 2 separate age group of 5-11 years from 5-6pm and 11 -16 years from 6-7pm however we find the majority of young carers prefer to stay for the whole 2 hours session. The session is mixture of sensory fun activities , creative arts and crafts, social stories, reading and creative, fun activities, cooking and educational games. In December we had lots of creative Christmas Theme Decorations and our young carers were so involves and happy to showcase their arts work at the end of each session feeling proud for their creative work. Families are so happy that this project is providing creative activities to engage their children and they are so happy that we are delivering free material for the session for free of charge. The project is helping young carers to connect and engage with others and at the same time boosting their skills and confidence. Children are looking forward to each week and also making friends as they take time to interact with each others during the session

As a charitable organisation, we will continue to support our members by sharing valuable information for health and well-being via our Destiny children and Family Support group on WhatsApp and Zoom Club . We also continue with the provision of food donation via fare share food distribution to our members once a week by delivering free parcel food to our members' home as needed.

Looking ahead we will continue to support our member remotely via WhatsApp group , Zoom Virtual Club and telephone support as well as providing free food distribution to our members as we can to support them during Covid-19. 

We will continue with our weekly Virtual tutorial classes and creative social activities for young carers and SEN children, Virtual monthly Peer Support forums for adult carers, Telephone support line and some occasional family outings. Children and young people will continue to engaged in arts, crafts and educational games, reading story books, maths and creative social activities where children and young people are supported to engage in learning and create useful small objects in arts, and use their imagination to be creative on zoom. They will be able to socialise and form friendships virtually on zoom. See our website for more information www.lwfci.org.uk

The children will continue to receive vital support to boost their learning virtually and social skills through this project and this will assist them in experiencing a brighter future.  It is so wonderful to know that, some of the materials and support costs were been paid for from the contributions that you have all made to this project. Our work is only possible through the kind donations and support from our incredible donors like you.

We are hoping to restart the provision of our face to face social activities , educational trips and outings at the beginning April 2021 but will depend on the Government guidlines on Covid-19 and on your valuable contributions, as the project is not yet fully funded.

Our work rely on grant funding, your donations and crowd fundraising from GlobalGiving and we do hope that you will continue to support us again. Please continue to support us as we need your help than ever. Please donate and  share our project page with your network by Click here to Support Children with Autism to Learn and Connect .

Your donations are the key in conducting such educational activities and offering support to our children and families. 

If you have any questions or would like to engage with this project in some way, please feel free to email us at info@lwfci.org.uk and we will get in touch with you.

From all of us at Lay Witnesses For Christ International -UK.  A very BIG thank you!

Links:

• Our website
• Our website