Children under rehabilitation get more motivated and responsive to rehabilitation modules if their parents and guardians visit them at the rehabilitation Centre. UCC facilitates this process by
allowing children under rehab to make free calls to their parents and guardians. Specific times are improvised to allow different categories of children make use of the available opportunities.
Some children take long to open up and such insecurities may deter them from interacting positively with fellow peers and caregivers. However, children who cooperate and develop positive relations with their parents / guardians and caregivers access support and resources faster than their peers. Social workers combine efforts with other professionals like counsellors, doctors and teachers to understand the origins of the presenting problems that hold such children from opening up. Several therapeutic interventions are applied which may include among others holding individual counselling sessions, engaging in social activities such as games and sports and other self-expression activities.
Parents and guardians become enthusiastically happy when they see their children engaged in specific activities. Some parents still possess negative thoughts about their children and hardly
anticipate anything good from them. However, when the child’s progress report is shared and parents physically see the children working out assignments productively, they start realizing the
beauty of rehabilitation. One of the objectives to have children interface with their relatives while in a rehab home is to facilitate simplified initial process leading to successful resettlement. Such interactions mend broken relationships and further facilitate reconciliation between the two parties.
Most children run from home to the streets where they spend most of their time without any connection with the parent or relatives. When parents and guardians get such opportunities to
have these first interactions with the children after a long period, they get shocked by the changes observed on their children. Some children had grown tall, others too sickly while others depicting
drug addiction related signs and symptoms. Thanks go to UCC for handling these changes professionally that most children overcome the conditions and stay completely healthy.
One parent from a distanced rural village came with a sack of matooke to donate to UCC in appreciation to the work done UCC towards rehabilitation of his boy. The parents’ visitations and
telephone calls strategy helped decisively in simplifying both rehabilitation and resettlement processes. We thank UCC social workers and community members for the support rendered
during the exercises. UCC was able to resettle all the children successfully with their parents, guardians and others independently who didn’t have specific people to receive them.