Mentoring training

This week all of us at CEF had mentoring training with staff, Skye and Giang, from Blue Dragon Children's Foundation, an amazing organization based in Ha Noi that has both a sponsorship program and an Anti Human Trafficking Program. They have many years of experience of mentoring children and families with very difficult situations. They work with many street children, both children who have been sent to work in the cities, and end up working on the streets, or they have run away and are working on the streets. Many are abused and used. What they do for these children is amazing.

So when I wanted us all to learn more mentoring skills I thought of them and all of their experience.

The sessions with Skye and Giang, were filled with compassion, were so practical and down to earth, so useful, as well as thought-provoking. Now the CEF staff and I feel very inspired, and will be meeting and thinking about what to update on our interview and home visit questionnaires and how to rephrase some of our questions, so we can find out more about our families and their needs and can therefore support them more in the ways they need.