Syria and her family were quarreling, a truly wicked row, if you know what I mean.  All her thousands of kids were at risk for survival.  This toxic home environment is both chronic and critical.

However, rather than bombastically removing them from their home, and lives, in some unfortunate cases, where Plan A has gone quite drastically wrong (I digress, with apologies, but perhaps we could learn a bit more analogously from experience?), I occupied their home with some of our best and brightest kids, so that each of Syria’s children now has a Virtual Mentor volunteer.

If any one, or more, of their kids is feeling threatened, or even just anxious about something, s/he contacts her/his Mentor, tells their Mentor what s/he is feeling, why she is feeling that way, and what she would like her parents to do to make it stop, if anything.

These Mentors will contact me if they get any calls.  Should I receive a call, and I really do NOT want to receive a call, I will go to their home, sit them down, and tell them which specific children called, how they are feeling, why they say they are feeling that way, and what they are asking the parents to do, or stop doing, to make it go away.

Further, I will wait to witness Syria’s response to her kids, and our kids.  So far, no calls.