NPH OneFamily members and social workers in Honduras.
ON THE HORIZON We continue to explore funding opportunities to launch the program in NPH Peru and NPH Mexico in 2018. As NPH Haiti and NPH Dominican Republic also serve children already reintegrated in the communities, we seek financing to deliver resources and technical assistance to their local teams. The NPH OneFamily program empowers children to break the cycle of poverty and creates family where it was previously a remote or insecure possibility. In countries where families struggle daily to raise a child, we link them to our larger NPH family. Our hearts were warmed this year when one of the young girls specially requested we share more about Father Wasson’s philosophy with her parents. She so deeply appreciated his example and the values she learned while at NPH. Incredibly, in her only two years of living in our NPH home, she not only felt connected to our family’s values, but wished to make them alive in hers as well. NPH OneFamily members and social worker playing at community school in Guatemala.
Just as our children once heard us say, “You will always be part of NPH,” their families now hear that message as well. Creating community is the hallmark of the NPH tradition. That is our greatest impact. This year represents our openness to learn, to grow, to partner, and to trust. While not without trial, our faith in children’s ability to thrive in family sustains us now and always. As Mother Teresa once wrote to Father Wasson, “Small things become infinite when done with great love.” NPH OneFamily Committee; Donna Egge, Nelly Fernandez, Christopher Hoyt, and Markus Streit