The Salvation Army opened the Patvērums Childrens Day Centre in March 2002 to provide a safe environment for underprivileged children from the local community in Riga.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Leadership news!
Today blog entries are like buses - none for ages and then 3 turn up!!!!
I've been meaning to write this entry for a while but for some reasons haven’t and in some ways it might not be necessary but anyway...
For those of you that read this and don't know I (Zoe - centre leader!) am pregnant and due in April so that means as of March I will go on maternity leave. On top of that Graeme and my contract with The Salvation Army finishes in September 07 and after a lot of thought we have decided not to renew it but to return to the UK.
So that means that Patverums is going to be handed over to a new leader next spring!!
This has always been our intention as we know it is not right for us to remain the leaders forever. With Graeme leaving the centre last January it was the start of us withdrawing from the centre.
I told the staff about a month ago and to be honest I'm not sure what there thoughts are about it! It's not been spoken about, well not in front of me anyway! The children have no idea about us leaving and it will hopefully stay like that for a while yet.
My biggest task now is to get the centre registered before I finish. Today we have phoned about getting the kitchen inspected so next week we need to go along and make a formal request and then the ball will definitely start rolling!
So that's what's happening with us at the moment. Lots’ going on around us and in the middle the centre continues to run as usual!
posted by Patverums Childrens Day Centre @ 7:10 pm
