How will our families be set up?
Families will have up to 12 children, including any biological children. Salvadoran family “parents” will, in a spiritual sense as well as in all practical, but non-legal senses “adopt” every child assigned to them, as part of their family, as if they had actually adopted them for life. The children will legally and also in a spiritual and accountability sense, actually be under the custody of Fundacion Corazon Del Padre. As a registered non-profit in El Salvador FCDP will be the approved entity for caring for orphaned children, and family parents will be employees of the foundation.
Recognizing that the Salvadoran government may also ask us to care for children who are not complete orphans, with a goal of reintegration, we will have at least one family home dedicated to "foster-care", and will work together with the authorities and with families to ensure that children are reunited in a safe and healthy way, and that families are prepared to holistically care for their own children.
In keeping with our child protection policy, which includes strictly enforced rules about keeping an “open door”, and of always having “two+ workers present”, as well as living “a culture of accountability and transparency” every family home will, in addition to the father and mother figures, also have an additional person or couple. This person or couple may be international, and of any adult age, acting as an “auntie or uncle” or as a “grandparent”, and may be mid-long term.
Each family will also have additional help with either cooking, cleaning, or tutoring children where needed. Our goal is to give a model of a Christian family, while maintaining a culture of accountability, transparency, and of enforcing our protection policy. These additional people to assist each set of family parents are there to support family parents in living godly lives, and in holistically caring for the children entrusted to us.
