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freedom can I give, especially the People don’t know what a good, make sure they go to school, the
ones who stay here? If I give too healthy relationship is. There children come home, the house
much, they misuse their freedom. are also a lot of broken families help brings them to bed, the
I don’t want to control them too and some people don’t even parents come home when they
much, because how can they know what a family is. I feel like are already asleep. The children
learn to take responsibility? But if people are always saying, ‘will he need their time with their parents;
you don’t control them, you have cheat me now?’ It’s like everyone the children need to see they care.
drugs and girls in the house. So, is fighting for himself to come
it’s a challenge for me to find this through life. And I think this also Are there any words you would
balance in a good way. brings challenges in the fight to like to say to the people who
end corruption and to really live a are doing the same kind of work
Brigitte has come up with life of integrity, because it’s hard to you are doing in Afrika maybe
some innovative projects find people who live that way! your advice or counsel to them
and approaches to teach how to do better?
the young men in her So what’s your advice for getting I think to do something like I do
charge some responsibility, solutions for these challenges? like helping these boys or helping
one of which is a chicken To become real and we need anyone; we have to be close to
project, the other is a integrity and to let God change us, God, to really seek Him to let
financial model for how let Holy Spirit change us. Him work through us. After I did it
to manage money and to for a time I felt like I had no idea
learn how to be faithful Is there anything you want to how to love these boys anymore,
with it, or else deal with say to Afrikan parents about because sometimes it can be
the consequences of not child or children development? really frustrating. Then I said God,
being faithful. I think it’s not just Afrikan parents. “You say we should love, but at the
What I see around me in the moment I don’t see how, I really
Having worked with these surroundings I am in and in the need Your help.”
boys for six years, based on church is that Afrikan parents are It’s just to be close to God and
experience, what do you think starting to look to the Western let Him give you what you need
is the biggest challenge for the culture and saying they grew up because you can burn out so fast.
Afrikan child? in a certain way and their children I don’t say that I get it all the time.
I think it’s to build trust. When I should not suffer and are now I need to work together with God
see the children today, they want pushing away all the troubles from because a lot of these boys went
something and the parents say them and I think that’s not healthy through really bad experiences
“Tomorrow”. But you already know at all. Allow the children to have and need to find healing. I cannot
that tomorrow there is nothing like their own experiences and to learn bring them healing, I cannot bring
that. So they learn from a young through suffering. them what they really need - it’s
age that ‘I cannot trust somebody Also a lot of parents are so busy only God and if I’m not close to
to tell me this, so if I cannot trust trying to make sure their children God, how will I bring them there?
a grown up then you come and have everything materially, but
tell me there is a Good Father they don’t have their parents, they
in Heaven I can trust, how will I are not there. The parents leave
trust God?’ I think that it’s a big the house when they are asleep,
challenge to have relationships. the house help wakes them up to

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