1) care and educational matters,
2) supplies.
I am a mobile care-giver. I have been working at seven Points since mid-September. I have decided that a distribution Point for breakfasts and lunches should be at Twarda Street 22. In terms of hygiene and sanitation it is relatively adequate, because at my other Points, the dirt and the cold, and the mutual attitude of refugees staying at the Points prevent me from working, even for a few hours. At first, breakfast was provided to 85 children – now 75. 10 juveniles dropped out. Only children should come for meals, because these meals are intended for them, and they should eat them on site. To my great displeasure and worry, very few children come to collect the meal, but there are mostly adults, who, it turns out, cannot be trusted with these meals. Why is that? Well, the children from the Points are naked and barefoot, unattended, and the breakfast, which should reach the child directly, is eaten by adults on the way or the child receives just a part of the meal. Wherever possible, I bring breakfast and a lunch to these children at the Point, but not always and not everywhere can the care worker do this, and then children suffer. Even if the child brings the meal to the Point, it is also uncertain whether this child will be able to eat it whole, as starved mothers sometimes take breakfast out of their children’s mouths. Adults often steal the last bite of bread from under the pillow, left there for later, and many similar incidents
happen. At the meal-distribution Point, children cannot have their breakfast and lunch because there are no benches, it is very crowded, children do not have bowls, spoons, etc.
My aim is for children to spend at least a few hours a day at the common room, eat on the spot, play there, learn, work under a tutor’s supervision. These hours would be among the happiest hours in the life of a child, who, staying constantly at the Point, witnesses many inappropriate scenes among adults that break the young souls of children, warp their character, often leaving deep traces in later life. For example, a child witnesses quarrels, brawls among adults residing at the Point, foul language, and even thefts. Staying constantly in the atmosphere of such quarrelsome, dirty, lazy people, children slowly get used to indolent and idle life and instead of making them capable of working in the future, we will have a generation sick to the soul and body.
