The Early Signs of Independence
Day 30
Our education team leader set an appointment for the teenage boy to register for high school next monday. Great things happen when kids get started in school. They are generally resilient and can adapt well. Getting into school accelerates their English learning and helps create friendships.
The family made arrangements with someone else to take them to an Asian food store. Unfortunately they did not know how to use their food card yet, so they had to borrow money from the person who took them.
Also, they learned where they could purchase inexpensive phone cards. They did so and called Burma and Thailand.
These acts of making their own arrangements and discoveries, without the help of us, their resettlement team, demonstrates their resourcefulness. Every refugee family makes these steps at some point, some sooner, some later. They are not dependent upon us and that is a good thing!
