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Larbert West Parish Church
SPONSORED CHILD |
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SOS Children’s Villages – “PRIYA” The Kirk Session have for many years sponsored a child but some time ago the Charity through whom we carried out the sponsorship decided that it was not appropriate to sponsor a named child as it singled them out from other local children. However, we have found that SOS Children’s Villages allows us to be concerned for a particular child although our sponsorship funding is applied to the Children’s Village in which the child lives and all children there benefit equally. The arrangement in a Children’s Village is very similar to that employed for many years at the Quarrier’s Homes in Bridge of Weir, Scotland, where a number of children live together as a family with house parents to look after them. We are conscious that this article is written for a website which will be able to be viewed throughout the world and consequently we have given our child the alternative name of PRIYA and we will not disclose where she lives other than that it is in India. Priya was only four years old when she came to the SOS Children’s Village, but she has bonded well with her SOS family and has made many friends. We have received a letter in December 2021 recounting Priya's progress. A transcript of this can be found by clicking this link. |