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by the. sounds like that don't go away is there with us for all time. south africa. starts february 7th t.w. . susanna hunt claire is a foster mother for a children's village in southern germany she has 7 foster children living with her and raised 3 of her arm she feels being a children's village mother is her calling. captured us but i believe you're an s.o.s. mother all your life you'll always be one and they say you take your leave of the children but i don't know if you even can ask with us you can.
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be. 8 s.o.'s parents live together with their foster children at the hole in law children's village each family in a house of their own children who are unable to stay with their biological families for whatever reason find a new home here. they are there you know that's. the idea for the s.o.'s children's villages originated in austria and spread around the world now there are a children's villages on 6 continents suzanne has been an s.o.s. mother for 16 years the 1st of our foster children have grown up and are getting ready to move out how hard will it be for her to let go she's devoted her life her own and her foster children they live together in a villa villa kula grandson teo feels at home here and sees ranya just like a big. what was it like for susanna son your highness now aged 27 to grow up among
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so many foster children that's contempt to take as a boy and see another child throw a tantrum or something like this that happened often after you thought it never really got to me it was my job to react to it in a certain way because it was funny might offer if another kid yelled at me i reacted like a child would and yelled back to give him get up so actually. suzanne has been used to having a full house for many years now it's starting to empty out the family's having a farewell party for kai and santa. but i've applied to the police and been accepted as a constable candidate. so on monday it's right back to school for a whole week. to go to the walk i have to leave and spend 5 days
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a week in la and on saturday and sunday i'm back here and york. for an important day like this suzanne is more it says on hand as well. before is a course we're happy it's terrific i'm a teacher myself and see the problems kids who grow up their real parents have deciding what to do when they leave school this is a huge success system is awful. but for now they concentrate on partying uncles and friends have come to the farewell party. the sadder i think one fridays under a celebrated her 16th birthday and on wednesday she's going to the zone in her home but she won't be gone i'm sure definitely come home once a month and for vacations as well as christmas easter mother's day and so on. sandra's moving into our home for mentally. challenge the people there she can live
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and work like a young adult in the family she wouldn't be able to get the kind of support she needs zander and her brother can i have lived with susanna since they were toddlers . now both are leaving the security and familiarity of their children's village family. when i i'm really proud of my big big brother cause i wouldn't. have to date actually things yet i've already packed my things yes you know you have to sign anything. do you have enough money to take your life with don't think i do think you have enough but then you have to stop by a bank and pick up some money again. that same evening chis time has come it will be the 1st time he's left his children's village how he's moving to another unfamiliar far away town to attend a police academy. class you've got your bus pass enter train ticket to
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find that if it's there. he takes leave of his foster mother will it be hard for kaya to live 200 kilometers away from home yes definitely. yep it's not just us of us committed i think it has to do with the fact that these kids were taken from their parents as little children and now it's twice as hard to say goodbye again persuasions we don't move it up shit so maybe. there isn't. a little guy never wanted to go far away. the shows you know he's still in vacation some because alfie had it all right back at things and go. yeah but you'll come back as i know what i like i like is that little chi doesn't always know. this country it's interest it's hard for me when it's so hard for him because i always worry that it may quit school again or her. he won't be able to take the
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frustrations or he won't be able to take leaving everyone here and his girlfriend involved in bourg and that as i come in and he can't go to see her and i do worry and hope he'll be stable enough to hold up now but he started to take up the story to susanna has to get back to what. this is just this is breakfast now. you know. the rest of her foster family is still here susanna and more let's take the remaining kids and their friends on a bicycle talk idea and how began where of. the kids look at the sheep how is it you to feel oh i just assume. it's this you know that's really neat if you've got fewer kids you can still go on bike tours like this.
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one you know just to ride and don't try any fancy tricks. you think you all get 2 scoops i'd like 5 me and me it's just my right is stopping you getting to school now that's enough now stop ok it's a school it's yourself. cause get stiffed up to it have tax you know i said 2 scoops. what's the big deal about 2 scoops i mean you've got 2 scoops haven't you some are it's just the can do you know what the kids are saying it's really crappy as popeye he always lets us know in the villainy that on their own he has done so well on a bike. in spite of the minus spats suzanna and moments are a good team and sail through the highs and the lows even in the children's village family not many people are willing to take on a round the clock job like this but susannah work hard and so.
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on. mean a family like to be condemned if i count my biological children then i've got 7 children who started in professions and their adult lives. and i hope they'll stay in touch with each other as well. and i hope that my children are on their way to a good future this money good have big markets if it's who can and i also hope that things will turn out so that by the time the 3 younger ones move out all know what i'm going to do we stay here no i don't know yet and i don't know what's to come or how things will be but i have faith that it'll be good i would have to suspend. my years off your free advice from the.
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house. just listen. when you get your shoes off would you take your bag into the room please. sandra's come to stay over the weekend. and i got homesick really bad. but what did you do now meeting we nothing well or make. a new mom. and she's expecting another visitor later susanna drives to the station is arriving by train from the police academy to spend the weekend at her. hello mother. it. is an odyssey isn't it. suzanne is happy to have her brood around
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her again. and the next. it's called. me. so i was under how do you recognize your brother he looks good doesn't mean yes that's final. result. we're about to eat wash your hands you'll have to get changed you can't eat like that. susannah wants the children to be independent kind proudly shows us his 1st con. mama had me included my mother gave me a loan and i make monthly payments. because if i'm going to law it's definitely better to be more mobile or not have to wait forever for the train and it. will
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most and so i don't want to be late. to do is that it's also good to have a little practice driving as a police officer you'll need to drive much different if you're definitely better off to have a driver's license with a car you're more mobile and maybe a bit more grown up to go works well enough kind of you slow leisurely drive or so as to whether you think i'll drive carefully but test how fast i can go or will be a new shop but this is out of what you can drive that car so fast with the i can do $0.17 nonsense chi if you drive into something the car will become put in so will you i don't want that i just believe you can't do 170 in a car like a social consciousness 250. even if you are 18 responsible for yourself. how do. you know it's the last or letting go of him or letting children go at all is tough because i think when you're 18 you have a lot of freedoms but you lack experience you have to feel it. and some
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kids don't take kindly to being offered advice by their kind those guys not really that way you have to give him credit for that. this is the right title so i make sure to call or text tonight when you get home what describes. yeah. you can also tell us when you get there yeah right. it's him oh no you are on our own again now it's quiet but actually ice 1st trip in his own calm quiet. suzanne is life is quietening down but just a little eyes are going to get let's go and i've got to get the girls to bed. so. they are looking to.
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