Can you help please?

We need UK Rangers (with families) to host an orphaned Spanish Ranger’s child for 1 or 2 weeks in the summer of 2024.

Are you interested in helping? Please read on: –

Many Rangers die in the line of duty all over the world and Spain is not an exception. Last December a ranger lost his life during a flood, leaving a wife and two children. Unfortunately, the number of orphaned children whose dad or mum was a Ranger who died in the line of duty, increases every year all over the world.  Not all countries provide state benefits for those left behind or can dispute compensation for long periods of time, adding to the trauma already being experienced.

To help these families, in 2018 a group of Spanish rangers founded a charity called AMINTA whose aims are to preserve the memory of our fallen colleagues in the line of duty and to help their children and spouses by providing them with as much support as the charity can offer.

Spanish Rangers’ Kids Summer Program

Aim:

To find Rangers living in English speaking countries who would be willing to host our orphaned children for a limited period (1 or 2 weeks in the summer) in their homes in a total linguistic immersion in English.

Benefits:

For the children

• They would have the opportunity of having an experience that often is not very affordable for a family with only one source of income at best. Most families come from a very humble background and would never get the chance of going to another country. Such programs already exist for the public, but they are expensive.
• Those children and their families would feel the support of the entire European Ranger community.
• Also, they would enjoy the experience of living abroad, improving their English language skills.

For the host families

• An opportunity to experience and learn about a new culture.
• Create a lifelong friend.
• Have a positive impact on the host family as well as on the child/children.

Even if you only have the slightest amount of interest in helping with this program, please don’t hesitate to contact Ian Brooker brookerian2@gmail.com to discuss this further.