Rupa learns new parenting skills

Six months ago, Rupa gave birth to her fifth child, a boy whose name has not yet been decided! Her other four children range in age from 4 to 10, and Rupa feeds them by begging for money on the streets every day. Her husband has chronic health problems and is unable to do much to provide for the family, so the burden of running the household largely falls on Rupa.

Although Rupa is by no means a new mother, she is eager to learn how she can improve her parenting skills. Your donation, Bill and Colleen, enabled AIC to offer Mother-Baby class to Rupa. The class meets every week, and mothers bring their babies, and spend an hour learning about dietary needs of their children, baby growth and development, birth spacing and family planning, communication and relationships within the family, good parenting practices and many other topics through structured discussions led by local professionals, specialists and health workers. Rupa knows that the things she is learning in the class will benefit her new son, as well as her older children and will help to ensure that her children have bright futures.

Thank you, Bill and Colleen, for ensuring that Rupa is able to give an early start to her children, despite being born into poverty and ignorance.