Another program on that day was to make a contact network. Until now 1 native staff has been contacting each child, but of course it’s not easy. Some households don’t even have a phone. So this time we grouped up our foster children and attempted to make a system that children can convey the message each other. The native staff will contact only the group leaders in addition to those whose family members don’t have a phone.
Our foster children are ranging from 2nd to 12th grade, and we don’t expect that small children can convey the accurate massage. So our system is that the native staff contacts group leaders, who are the eldest or highest grade in his/her group, and those leaders contact all of their group members.
For everyone, the concept of a contact network was unfamiliar. We took time to explain them how it should work, and we prepared pretty writing paper in order to motivate the leaders. We were afraid, too, that the contact list may easily lost if it’s just simple white piece of paper. Poor families are busy to live on that day, too busy to care a piece of paper.
Anyway, now some elders have got a social responsibility. We hope this should be a good opportunity to stimulate and cultivate their sense of responsibility. Although not the eldest in a group, a few students were willing to take the responsibility and we were glad to see their enthusiasm.
If this contact network becomes smoothly functioning, we expect that we can interact with these children more by inviting them for another activities and programs through the network, not just notifying our visiting date.
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