Morning Tears: hope for children of convicts
After coming back from visiting Madaifu and Xinxing in Baoji we headed to Xian where we visited a home of the organization Morning Tears (MT).
Started in 1999, Morning Tears is an organization providing a new home for children that are left behind by the imprisonment of a parent. In these homes they provide all basic needs (food, clothes, shelter), psychological support, school education, leisure activities and juridical support.
Over 9 million people are held in prison institutions around the world. Prison populations are growing in nearly all the countries of the world. The psychological problems and emotional pains that children face are often overwhelming.
Morning Tears tries to rebuild the world for children who have lost their own. They have programs and events in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhengzhou and Xi’an.
Morning Tears works holistically, at both the level of the child as well as the international policy making level.
They do this via:
1. Residential care: in a home of Morning Tears or that of a supported organization.
2. Capacity building: morning tears works in close cooperation and very constructively with the Chinese government, at all levels, to structurally advance childcare and the protection of vulnerable children in China.
Morning Tears has helped 805 children and there are currently 250 children in Morning Tears homes/projects. The children that we interviewed were part of the home project of Morning Tears: they were living together under the care of a MT staff. Despite the traumas that they had undergone, we found them optimistic and responsible, no doubt thank to the help that they had received from MT!
View their website: http://www.morningtears.org.cn/
晨露国际：服刑人员子女的希望
结束了对马大夫基金会和宝鸡新星的拜访，我们前往西安，参观晨露国际的总部。
晨露国际成立于1999年，它是一家专为服刑人员未成年子女提供救助的机构。在那里，晨露国际为孩子们提供基本的生活需求（如食物、衣服、住宿等）、心理咨询、教育、课余生活以及法律支持。
目前，全球有九百多万人在押服刑，几乎所有国家的犯法人员数量都在增加。父亲/母亲被捕，孩子们受到惊吓，感到困惑和惊恐。由此而产生的心理问题和情感痛苦是他们无法承受的。晨露国际正是为帮助这些孩子重建自己的家园而存在。他们在北京、上海、郑州和西安均有项目。
晨露国际的工作是具有整体性的，他们既考虑孩子的需要，同时也顾及国际上的政策规定。他们通过以下两种方式帮助孩子：
1. 家庭护理：位于晨露国际的总部或其他合作机构的办公室
2. 能力建设：晨露国际与中国政府在各个方面都有着紧密的合作，他们帮助提高儿童保护的水平，保护那些在中国易受伤害的孩子们。
晨露国际已经帮助了805名儿童。现在，有250名儿童住在晨露国际的总部或参与了这个项目。我们面试过的孩子只是晨露国际项目的一部分：他们在晨露国际工作人员的照顾下生活在一起。尽管这些孩子经历了精神创伤，我们发现他们还是非常乐观、负责。这毫无疑问要感谢晨露国际的帮助！