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- Herausgeber: Europa Edizioni
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023
By disclosing her story, Irene wants to help unveil the truth behind the harsh reality of growing up in an orphanage. Between the lines of this book, lies the hope of saving many children escaping what she went through during her childhood and avoiding them having to deal with life all on their own.
“Orphanages are not the solution, family-based care systems, strengthening, enabling and empowering communities will”.
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Irene Wangeci
The truth behind the orphanages
© 2022 Europe Books| London www.europebooks.co.uk | [email protected]
ISBN 9791220119603
First edition: April 2022
Distribution for the United Kingdom: Vine House
Distribution ltd
Printed for Italy by Rotomail Italia
Finito di stampare presso Rotomail Italia S.p.A. - Vignate (MI)
Edited by Stella Fusca
The truth behind the orphanages
Dedication
To all the children confined in orphanages/Child Care Institutions globally. Where you are is not where you belong, you belong to families and communities who, if educated, enabled, and supported, will be happy to take care of you.
To us who grew up in orphanages “my fellow Care Leavers” whose experiences are similar to mine, and some are even worse. We are carriers of the scars of this ill system of care. Know that you’re not alone and you will be victorious irrespective of what your past experiences were.
Acknowledgments
Above all, I am grateful to God for the many roles He plays in my life. He is my best friend and my Father. Many are the tears he has seen; many are the conversations we have held amidst difficulties and joyous moments; many are the questions I have asked Him, and many are the times He has carried me in His merciful arms. This book is a testimony of one of His miracles. Looking at where I am and where I have come from, I shed tears of gratitude. I could write a lot for ours has been an intimate relationship.
I thank myself for daring to be vulnerable, many moments were emotional and painful to recount. It's my sincere hope that my story will help you see what the orphanage system of care does. It may seem like orphanages are born out of compassion and kindness, but this is not true. They are a trap as they continue to impoverish its people even further.
Material things are easy for anyone to offer. Why not sacrifice a bit more for a better trajectory for these children?
From my mum’s breast to the orphanage! Traumatizing to imagine, this is what the presence of an orphanage does. All things considered; I choose to thank the person who made the decision to send me to the orphanage. At that moment I am sure they made the easiest choice available to them “an orphanage”. From me to you, receive my sincere forgiveness. You are one of the reasons I have written this book, so that the first option for an orphaned and vulnerable child shall not be an orphanage but a family or community that will safeguard the child’s right to a family.
To the orphanage I grew in, thank you. I would not be writing this book were it not for the experiences I innocently went through. They are why I have a story to tell. I have learned there would have been a better option that I never got a chance to and only God knows if I ever will. Belonging to “a loving family”.
That notwithstanding, I am writing this book to join global voices and my fellow advocacy community in creating awareness if only every vulnerable child in the world can be given a chance to enjoy their right to a family especially those from developing countries. This is a fundamental right for every global child. Family and community connections are too significant to be overlook in a consciously social fabric-oriented world. Alone, I am alone in this world! With no connection to anyone or any community.
As an adult, I still want to belong and still need a loving family to associate with.
Where do I find one? This need not be another child’s question.
To my friend whom I know would like to remain anonymous. Though by this time we have not met, you are the hero behind me overcoming my timidity and hereby telling my story. I recall our first conversation too well. When I shared my thoughts on orphanages you listened, you quenched my thirst and aligned my thoughts with what was being done locally and globally.
You eliminated my naivety of thinking mine was the only orphanage, I began to understand the magnitude of the orphanage phenomena, to my chagrin.
You empathetically contained me when I said this was not right, for any child to go through. I cannot thank you enough for your selflessness in enlightening me, the many long intellectual conversations we held and continue to have on these phenomena, your patience in answering what you sometimes said were difficult questions, the voluminous research papers you went out of your way to share with me in answer to my endless questions and for guiding me on the platforms to visit for further knowledge, you're a great tutor! We know we have learnt when action comes out of our learning.
Elephant Journal and Elephant Academy cannot go unmentioned. You're fundamental to the courage I have. You trained me, gave me a chance to tell my story. You published my first story on your journal, an article that took all my courage to write. I overcame my fears and today I am going all the way beyond the limitations of an article to a book. Thank you for your scholarship and I am forever grateful for the lessons you taught me.
