{"id":1772,"date":"2024-06-03T16:20:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/the-work-has-begun\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:37:30","slug":"the-work-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/en\/the-work-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"The work has begun!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>I would like to sincerely thank everyone who participated in this project! Thanks to the help of so many people who contributed donations and other forms of support, from Italy as well as other countries, and the invaluable and patient on-site help of Dr. Darock, we have finally purchased the electrical and plumbing materials as well as the necessities for the construction of the enclosure of the house that will house the children. Also ordered were 10 bunk beds that will be locally manufactured from wood for the first children. The truck arrived in Mwenga at the end of May and work began on June 1!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/d88e207b-0b05-4231-b4d9-afbcb8f7667e-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1757 alignnone size-medium\">        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4ea62f5c-5ba1-4cbd-a598-b57f888a05e4-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1727 alignnone size-medium\"><\/p>\n<p>My trip to Congo is scheduled for June 13. I will arrive in Goma on June 14 and plan to stay in Bukavu a few days-where I will be hosted by the Xaverian missionaries-to proceed with the purchase of other materials needed to finish the work and to set up the ateliers we plan to organize for vulnerable women. Once in Mwemga I will begin, with the help of Dr. Darock and his team, with the recruitment of local staff and the pre-selection of children and women, mainly from the city of Kamituga and its environs, particularly from the mining regions . The community has already been made aware of this so there will be many requests and reports, and we will have to initially stick to very strict inclusion criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Thanking you again for your valuable cooperation, I extend my warmest greetings to all, hoping to send you more good news soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>\"You dont have to see the whole staircase: just take the first step\" <\/b><span>Martin Luther King<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/b3abb69d-9075-4e20-9aed-d3832f2c10d0-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1712 alignnone size-medium\">         <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/5e13f316-ff78-4e68-a418-5ebb14f6b49f-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1717 alignnone size-medium\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the newsletter on the site on the contact page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n<p>Ilaria<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8270,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772\/revisions\/8270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeforstreetchildren.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}