Matúš Stračiak, husband of longtime reporter and moderator TV JOJ Alena Stračiaková, will appear on Tuesday, September 2, as a guest in the popular Inkognito show. Guessers Zuzana Kubovčíková Šebová, Marián Čekovský, Michal Hudák and Jakub Prachař will be task Guess his unusual profession – they will not succeed!
Matthew is engaged in very special activities, which is unknown to many people. He acts as a so -called Buddy – a professional friend for children from orphanages. In this role, he replaces a friend’s child and is a kind of animator, teacher, father and older brother – all in one person. This activity is carried out on a voluntary basis.
The Buddy program helps children who cannot grow up in their family through individual relationships with volunteers. The relationship is starting to build around the thirteenth year of life, because it would not be ready for it. “The child should understand what the type of relationship is. That it is not a replacement for a parent, but he is an adult friend,” explains Matthew’s principle of functioning of the program. Ideally, this is a relationship for life.
The task of Buddy is to move the child forward and explain the things that his parents would normally explain. “Those children have educators, psychologists, teachers around them, but they don’t have adult friends who can convert them a little,” It describes the sympathetic Matthew.
Over time, the relationship naturally develops and strengthens. Its natural development is that Buddy takes a child from a children’s home to his own family, where it becomes a natural part of it. Matthew has a little daughter with Alena, who is not yet at the age of being jealous of a friend.
“We should be able to explain that the difference is a child and the difference is a friend. The fact that I have a child does not endanger our friendship And the fact that I have a friend who is closer to the age of my child does not endanger the relationship with the child, “continues Matúš.
Of course, Buddy’s partner must also agree with this type of activity. “He must agree because it interferes with life. The time you become friends and the relationship is fixed is natural that you will go on a trip together. There are lives in life and the partner should be aware of it, “he added.
Matthew’s work of Buddy is proof that there are people who decide to devote their time and energy to children who need it the most. And that every successful man is a woman – in this case Alena, who supports her husband’s commendable activity.
You will see Matúš Stračiak in Inkognite on Tuesday, September 2 at 20:30 on TV JOJ!
