SOS Family Homes
“Home sweet Home” is a very common phrase popular worldwide and here too in THF when we say Homes or Khymtsang, we refer to our sweet and warm family homes where our children live and are taken care of by foster parents or Mothers. The children in these homes are those little beings who have undergone a lot of physical and mental trauma – separated from their loved ones, risked their lives, battled against all odds and have reached under the umbrella of Tibetan Homes. More than anything else these children yearn for love and a sense of belonging and this comes naturally from the foster parents to the children. The working of the home is unique in itself, the day to day work of cooking, washing and cleaning is done by the children themselves aided by the parents and this forms an integral part of their everyday life. Duty charts are made involving all senior children in the household chores and for the younger children a match up of an elder brother or a sister is made. In this way the younger children are looked after by their respective elder brother or sister - washing of clothes, bathing, school needs, assisting with home-work are few of the things the senior children
