{"id":5025,"date":"2026-04-01T16:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thearktrust.org\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:06:06","slug":"when-work-feels-like-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thearktrust.org\/blog\/when-work-feels-like-family\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN WORK FEELS LIKE FAMILY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we said goodbye to one of our teachers.<\/p>\n<p>She has been part of <a class=\"SubfojZeMOTfJToTUaxMJjsVCyKMVY \" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-ark-trust\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">The Ark Trust (Napastaa Children&#8217;s Home)<\/a> family for some time, teaching at our Community Model School.<\/p>\n<p>As she left, we gave her a very emotional send-off, full of love, hugs, and kind words.<\/p>\n<p>It showed something very special about <a class=\"SubfojZeMOTfJToTUaxMJjsVCyKMVY \" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-ark-trust\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">The Ark Trust (Napastaa Children&#8217;s Home)<\/a>. This is not just a place to work\u2014it is a place where people feel safe, valued, and part of a family.<\/p>\n<p>As a teacher, she did more than just teach lessons. She helped children from difficult backgrounds learn, grow, and believe in themselves. She gave them hope and care every day.<\/p>\n<p>Even though she has left, her impact is still here. It lives in the children she taught and the lives she changed.<\/p>\n<p>At <a class=\"SubfojZeMOTfJToTUaxMJjsVCyKMVY \" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/the-ark-trust\/\" target=\"_self\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">The Ark Trust (Napastaa Children&#8217;s Home)<\/a>, we don\u2019t just work together\u2014we care for each other like family.<\/p>\n<p>We wish her all the best in her next journey, and we will always be grateful for her.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we said goodbye to one of our teachers. She has been part of The Ark Trust (Napastaa Children&#8217;s Home) family for some time, teaching at our&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9,10,11],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-ark-trust-family","tag-education","tag-heroines","tag-makingadiffence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thearktrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thearktrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thearktrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thearktrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thearktrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thearktrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thearktrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thearktrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thearktrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thearktrust.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}