Lavish, abundant and MORE: the Father's love in action

The following is an excerpt from a post about the Believe in Me School that Emma Kate is attending.  It is in her orphanage, and allows her to spend her days being actively engaged in learning, growing and using her mind and body.  


I CANNOT believe she is experiencing this.  As you read, please note that this is NOT typical for the kind of life children have in most orphanages.  Additionally, while the school is an incredible blessing for her, it is worth noting that she IS living in an orphanage, and as amazing as her care is, it is still life in an orphanage.  ALL of these children deserve a home and a family of their own.  They do.  Nothing replaces that for anyone.


Here is the teacher information:
The teachers are assigned a class. There are two for each. We have a very good
teacher/student ratio. Also, we have sent all our staff to Beijing to receive
Montessori styled teaching instruction, with the exception of one teacher who
will be attending in March. Our teachers are all qualified teachers, with the
exception of one, who is a nurse. Our goal has been to have a high quality
program for the kids, not just to keep them busy. We also send our teachers to
other Believe In Me Schools on occasion to have them learn from one another.
The students are all brought together for special times and parties. There are
generally about 35 kids in the school at any one time. Luckily, some of the
children leave for their Forever Families, but sadly, many of them do not. Our
goal is to give them the best experience we can to prepare them for public
school or adoption. Some of our children will never attend public school
because of their special needs, so we are teaching them and will have them in
our program until they are much older.

I will try to post our daily class schedules from last year. Class C was
attending only morning at the time because they were so young and we were
acclimating them to going to school. They have been attending all day since the
fall, although this schedule does not reflect that.

I welcome your questions about the school. We are so happy to be able to provide
this program for these children.