My Home

A home is not just a building it is a place where you and your family are but not everyone has a home. A home is more than brick walls and a roof, above all, it is a place where you can feel safe and loved. Not everyone has a home, for example, Peyton. She is a 3-year-old girl. She is living with us because she is in foster care. Peyton can not live in her home or be with her family because it is not safe. Home can mean so many different things to different people. For me it means a place where my family is, somewhere I can feel safe, loved, happy and somewhere I can be me. Some people don’t get to be with their family or don't have a home. This is why I think habitat for humanity is great for people who don’t have a home. I am so thankful for my loving family, a roof over my head, parents who can take care of me, my brothers and sometimes other little kids. ________________________________________________________ {Foster care} Foster care is when a parent is not able to take care of their child. So they go to a foster family (like mine.) After three months they go to court and the judge decides if the kid goes back with their parents or if they have to stay in foster care. So in those three months foster kids stay at my house or sometimes longer. We try to make the kids feel like they can be at home, safe and loved.