{"id":501,"date":"2021-06-08T16:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewohaiti.org\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2021-06-08T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T22:00:45","slug":"maslow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/index.php\/2021\/06\/08\/maslow\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sponsoring a Student Helps Meet Their Most Basic Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a school-based mental health therapist here in Charlotte, and work with children who attend schools with high needs and high poverty rates.&nbsp; My family sponsors a 10 year-old girl student in Bayonnais.  It is important to me as a therapist and as a sponsor, to understand what it takes to help support students to be most successful learners, both locally and abroad!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One theory that has helped me contemplate this complicated issue is Maslow\u2019s Hierarchy of Needs.&nbsp; I first came across this in graduate school, but became more familiar with his idea when I began to work in schools where children were struggling with learning and falling behind grade level.&nbsp; Maslow\u2019s Hierarchy of Needs explains that as different needs are met, it increases their ability to be successful.&nbsp; Their most basic needs start at the bottom and work to the top.&nbsp; The lower tiers need to be completed before moving on to the next level.&nbsp; The theory goes that only when a student&#8217;s basic needs of safety, love\/belonging and self esteem are met, can they truly focus on the task of learning.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, how does Ewo help meet the students\u2019 needs of Maslow\u2019s Hierarchy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It starts with biological and physical needs.&nbsp; Students at school in Bayonnais receive a school uniform and a hot lunch every day to meet these needs.&nbsp; Next comes the need for safety.&nbsp; Students have access to medical care at school if they need it.&nbsp; The need for love and belonging is met when&nbsp; students and sponsors exchange letters.&nbsp; The sponsors express love, support, prayers and encouragement to their student and this is so important!&nbsp; Favorites we like to include in our letters \u201cWe believe in you!\u201d&nbsp; \u201cWe love you!\u201d&nbsp; \u201cWe pray for you every day\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Student sponsorship can fulfill students needs so they can be prepared and receptive to learning.&nbsp; This equals greater success in life!&nbsp; This is why the work we do is so important to the young people of Bayonnais.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ewohaiti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Maslows-Hierarchy-of-Needs2-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Maslows-Hierarchy-of-Needs2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Maslows-Hierarchy-of-Needs2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Maslows-Hierarchy-of-Needs2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Maslows-Hierarchy-of-Needs2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Maslows-Hierarchy-of-Needs2-830x830.png 830w, https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Maslows-Hierarchy-of-Needs2-230x230.png 230w, https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Maslows-Hierarchy-of-Needs2-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Maslows-Hierarchy-of-Needs2-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Maslows-Hierarchy-of-Needs2.png 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a school-based mental health therapist here in Charlotte, and work with children who attend schools with high needs and high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16,28],"tags":[7,10,11,5,6,20,13,14,8,29,30,9],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-board-of-directors","category-our-story","category-student-sponsorship","tag-bayonnais","tag-educate","tag-empower","tag-ewo","tag-haiti","tag-icb","tag-mission","tag-nonprofit","tag-ofcb","tag-sscm","tag-student-sponsorship-community-meeting","tag-world-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewohaiti.org\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}