{"id":7989,"date":"2024-01-18T21:04:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jhalak.org\/?p=7989"},"modified":"2024-04-10T10:54:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:54:22","slug":"the-long-walk-to-belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jhalak.org\/en\/transformation-in-the-lives-of-people-with-disability\/the-long-walk-to-belong\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Walk to Belong"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Long Walk to Belong
\nBy Geeta Mondol and S Ramanathan
\nVision combined with action can spearhead transformational change that may seem impossible. Timaben was a resident of a state mental health institution \u2013 she ended up there somehow, when she got separated from her family, and somehow reached a place far away from where she belongs. Keystone\u2019s Family Reunification Team, committed to finding and reunifying institutionalized persons with their families, interacted with her whenever they visited, and eventually, they built trusting relationships with her. She confided about her family and confessed that she was longing to belong. It was with her mother and siblings that she felt belonged. The Family Reunification Team learned that her family was in Ahmedabad, Gujarat and left no stone unturned to locate them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transformation-in-the-lives-of-people-with-disability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t