{"id":1380,"date":"2010-03-25T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2010-03-25T02:43:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T02:43:09","slug":"behind-all-the-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"Behind all the smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LetabaOur last blog of South Africa, March 2010 before our travels to Uganda, we wanted to leave you\u00a0 with a small idea of the reality for most of these children.<\/p>\n

We first walked into Letaba school in 2007 and were greeted with warmth, smiles and a joyful laughter.\u00a0 We came away thinking how happy these children were, with their physical disabilities and that they were making the most of life.<\/p>\n

We visited more and more, eventually supporting them through Yebo.\u00a0 The stories we heard from the teachers in 2009 made us understand just slightly, a bit more of the traumas that are going on for the children.<\/p>\n

This trip of March 2010, we gained more information, which led us deeper into the knowledge of the sadness, the pain and the suffering of many kinds of abuse that these children have had.\u00a0 This went even deeper as we learnt that their traumas still carry on throughout their time away from the school.<\/p>\n

We look at this project now with different\u00a0 eyes, learning as we go along.<\/p>\n

Of course, the traumas that are happening for these children we are unable to stop.\u00a0 The traumas that are so serious and disturbing also bring heavy and intrusive emotions if disturbed in the wrong way.<\/p>\n

What we can try to do for these children, however hard their life is, and however they cover up their pain and manage to still bring smiles that give joy to others, is to bring as much happiness into their lives that will give them a chance to express their feelings in a positive way, through activities that they can relate to their own situations.\u00a0 A gentle approach to support of emotions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We look at what goes on behind the smiles of the children that we support and the way that this support is individually matched to each child’s needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}