{"id":4788,"date":"2023-07-13T09:56:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T08:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2023-07-13T20:51:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T19:51:57","slug":"remarkable-club-member-tina-fostering-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/2023\/07\/13\/remarkable-club-member-tina-fostering-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarkable Club Member Tina fostering children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2023\/07\/Tina-Fenner-picture-jpeg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4793\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2023\/07\/Tina-Fenner-picture-jpeg-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2023\/07\/Tina-Fenner-picture-jpeg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/sevenoaks\/files\/2023\/07\/Tina-Fenner-picture-jpeg.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SI Sevenoaks club member Tina Fenner has been fostering desperate asylum-seeking children for over 20 years; she has fostered more than 30 youngsters during that time, some for 2 years or more.\u00a0 The children, girls as well as boys, often arrived at Tina\u2019s home traumatised and scared, sometimes with no reading or writing skills and no spoken English.\u00a0 Tina has provided sanctuary, care and support including teaching them literacy skills and has seen her young charges go on to successful and worthwhile lives.\u00a0 One young woman, who had been trafficked, needed to stay with Tina beyond her 18<sup>th<\/sup> birthday, which the authorities permitted, to enable her to overcome the trauma.\u00a0 Tina is still in touch with her as she is with many of the others.\u00a0 Here she is redecorating one of the bedrooms in her Sevenoaks home for the next young asylum seeker.<\/p>\n<p>Tina only joined the Sevenoaks Club earlier this year and we had not been aware of the extent of her work and the amazing devotion she has given to these \u2018lost children\u2019! It was a great surprise for us when Penelope Robbins, who is our Region Programme Action Officer as well as a valued member and past Club President, alerted us to watch the BBC\u2019s South East news item on 6<sup>th<\/sup> July 2023 where Tina was featured!\u00a0 There were also articles in the Sevenoaks Chronicle and on the internet.\u00a0 We are truly privileged to have Tina \u2013 and we are very proud of her!<\/p>\n<p>Sandie Higgs<\/p>\n<p>Programme Action Officer<\/p>\n<p>SI\u00a0 Sevenoaks<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SI Sevenoaks club member Tina Fenner has been fostering desperate asylum-seeking children for over 20&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":451,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Remarkable Club Member Tina fostering children | News | Blog | Events | SI Sevenoaks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Sevenoaks : Blog &amp; News : Remarkable Club Member Tina fostering children : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Sevenoaks . 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