Kristian Buus

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Jessica, 16. (Not her real name).She likes being at the Laura Vicuna home for the protection it gives and for teaching her rights. The sisters and counselors have helped her get back her trust and confidence in herself and others. In her spare time she loves to read inspiring stories and she wants to become a social worker in order to express and share her own experiences with other children and what she has learned in spite of what happened to her. .."The rose on the mask symbolises my life; even though I have been through a lot of bad experiences I have managed to overcome them with the help of Laura Vicuna. The lips are red to signify that I say so many things even though not the things I really want to say. The blue signifies the negative thoughts I have in life but the sun signify the hope which came to my life." Jessica is an unwanted child. She has never seen her father who is her grandmother's cousin. The hospital referred her to the Laura Vicuna Center after having tried to take her own life and was in coma for 3 days. She had been abused for many years by relatives. She wanted to run away so many times but she was afraid to leave her little step brother and suicide seemed at that time to be her only way out. One of her biggest worries now is the well-being of her step brother and she finds it very difficult to come to terms with the fact that she had to leave him.

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Jessica, 16. (Not her real name).She likes being at the Laura Vicuna home for the protection it gives and for teaching her rights. The sisters and counselors have helped her get back her trust and confidence in herself and others. In her spare time she loves to read inspiring stories and she wants to become a social worker in order to express and share her own experiences with other children and what she has learned in spite of what happened to her. .."The rose on the mask symbolises my life; even though I have been through a lot of bad experiences I have managed to overcome them with the help of Laura Vicuna. The lips are red to signify that I say so many things even though not the things I really want to say. The blue signifies the negative thoughts I have in life but the sun signify the hope which came to my life." Jessica is an unwanted child. She has never seen her father who is her grandmother's cousin. The hospital referred her to the Laura Vicuna Center after having tried to take her own life and was in coma for 3 days. She had been abused for many years by relatives. She wanted to run away so many times but she was afraid to leave her little step brother and suicide seemed at that time to be her only way out. One of her biggest worries now is the well-being of her step brother and she finds it very difficult to come to terms with the fact that she had to leave him.