It was a fleeting moment during a therapy session when I asked the beautiful mother pictured below – ‘Momma Shirat, do you realize how strong you are?’ She looked at me with a somehow perplexed look on her face and she responded – \’No, no I don’t.\’ Perhaps she didn’t realize that I knew her very own …
Momma Jen was in her early twenties when she found herself pregnant. She was scared to tell her parents and the father about the pregnancy because she feared they would ask her to abort the child… When the time to give birth arrived, Momma Jen gave birth alone in a hospital. The doctors initially told …
Everyday I’m vividly reminded of why Imprint Hope was sent to Uganda… some days the reminders are so subtle…like a beautiful mother-son interaction in the therapy room, a husband and wife resolving a conflict to better serve their child, a child with a disability smiling for the first time (I know this is hard to …
It was a sunny Saturday at Imprint Hope’s Center. The morning had begun with multiple lightbulbs exploding. However, small power surges are quite common for us on this side of the power grid, so none of us took this quite seriously. And then small little things began to happen. Sockets began to blow up and …
Surviving. The explicit significance of this word can be interpreted in various ways. To some, it could mean ‘surviving’ a long week at work. To others, it could be \’surviving’ an intense run or workout. And still others, ‘surviving’ could mean living amidst vivid memories of pain and trauma. To four year old, Rachel, ‘surviving\’ means being locked …
I recently began fostering a little boy named Hassan. Upon introducing him to unfamiliar faces, many people inquire about the large scar on his forehead. \”Where did he get that scar” they ask. Reminiscing about the day Hassan fell 6 feet and cracked open his forehead and his miraculous recovery from a Traumatic Brain Injury, …
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