Brain researchers say that one of the most important human emotions is 'empathy' and also this can be nurtured. We have been trying to promote empathy among our girls in various ways but never did we have a dedicated program for this. Not anymore...
On January 26th, we started a program called 'Adopt a Sister'. We have identified four youngest girls who needs help with their activities of daily living everyday and then we have asked for volunteers to help these girls. Totally we had 12 older girls volunteered so we split them all up into three groups of four each. Each volunteer takes care of one younger girl for two weeks and then they rotate. So each group works on these young one once in six weeks.
When it started, it was all fun and excitement. But in the first week itself, one of the 12th grader wanted to drop out because of the difficulties of caring for her adopted sister but she was counselled about staying the course and at the end of the two weeks, when they were about to change the groups, she shared a touching testimony about what she had learned from her adopted sister. She said "I would get angry at her adamant behavior and scold her but she never stops coming to me with a big smile in no time".
As a token of appreciation for participating in this program, we give them a 'Certificate of Participation' like below
(Click on the image above to read the details)
So what do these older sisters do to the younger ones anyway? Literally everything like their own biological sister. Washing, feeding, bathing, playing, putting them to sleep and so much more.
Now, all our girl volunteers have completed first rotation and they are in their second one. They have reached consensus not to repeat the same little girl for a change and it looks like it is doing wonders in the outlook of our adolescent girls who are caring for the younger ones.
They enjoy participating in it without even knowing that they are being transformed to become better individuals for the future.
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