Dear Yvonne,
On Monday 24 May 2010 07:47 AM, Yvonne Vaz Ezdani wrote:
I have been working from my home in Saligao for many years Mario.can
continue doing the same.
Sounds great for a start!
Deep gratitude and admiration for responding to a need, that from
experience, you know exists. Let us begin small, get the service
off the ground, announce it and adapt as the demand grows.
If you have the time just now, can you think of the following:
+ areas and age groups that your skill set can deal with, for
example:
. children
. teens and adolescents [if you feel confident, it is important
to begin with these 2 groups at least,]
. parent-child relationships
. marital strife (spouses)
. adult personality/behavioural disorders
. student/career guidance
. aptitude testing/guiding (like you did with our daughter Tarika)
. general workshops/clinics/tiny courses on
stress/grief/failure/anger management etc. for the average villager.
. substance abuse
+ days of the week and timings when you can be available
+ a minimum charge per session or number of sessions which can
then be subsidised from an independent source...
(unless you are a 100% sure that you would like to *volunteer*
your time and skills, we suggest that you should be adequately
compensated. Within the larger picture, such situations should
also be earning opportunities for local villagers. The reasoning
here is that if a villager can be adequately compensated *within*
the village, for one's skills, goods and services, then the
village is the place to start earning one's living like some of
the local doctors, teachers, tradespeople, artisans, farmers,
businesspeople etc.)
...at the same time, children and teens in distress should be a
able to reach out for help and get it instantly, knowing that it
is *free of cost* for them. We will have to work out a way to
compensate you for such sessions.
+ areas of training to add to your skill set
+ if possible/needed, may be something like a 'limited help line':
*Phone Aunt Yvonne* everyday, except Saturdays and Sundays, from
7-9 pm (or something similar).
+ and may be, who knows *Follow Aunt Yvonne* on Facebook,
Twitter, email etc.!! (one can never tell, children, teens and
young adults may just prefer the distance and 'virtual contact'
of cyberspace than the face-to-face encounter of an
everyone-knows-everyone village network).
...just a few things to mull over before you actually begin work
here in Saligao. Inputs/advice/guidance from other
Saligaonetters on this important local initiative would only help
us at ground zero.
Incidentally Yvonne, when are you expected back?
Warm regards and much solidarity.
M&M.
PS: Counselling, therapy, psychological/emotional/mental health
(which all of us are need anyway!) are needs that people may not
as yet want to admit openly. Hence the suggestion of referring
to Yvonne's and other services that may be later added to the
cluster, as *guidance*. It is less threatening! Suggestions
welcome. - M&M.
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