Visit to a Child Care Centre at Hennur on 5 March, 2016
The Department of Civil Engineering organized a
visit to the Child care center located in Hennur road, which is about 50 kms
from Faculty of Engineering. The Center is under ‘Freedom Foundation’ which is
an NGO run by Mr. Ashok Rau.We started from the campus on the late afternoon of
a Saturday at 13:30. As we embarked upon this journey, we were on one hand
excited and on the other hand curious to know these children.
As
we reached, we saw many tiny smiling faces greet us. We met the Residential Councellor, Mr. Naveen
who was stationed in the house 24/7 to take care of the children. We learnt
about the functioning of the NGO and also how the children were taken care of.
There are 14 children currently in the childcare centre, and all of them are
AIDS affected children. They live on drugs every day, since their white blood
cells or T-cells which provide immunity to the body are weakened by the HIV
virus.
We
began to interact with the children. First came in this little girl who is
called D, who wants to become a teacher, then Mahalakshmi, who wants to become
a doctor, Bhavana, an RJ, Vinod, an aeronautical Engineer, and other children
with lots of hope. We also learnt that the foundation has seen one Ms. Anitha,
who left the child care centre is now part of the AXA group working as an Admin
Assistant. She comes once in 15 days to share with all memories of old.
Altogether,
this home looked lovely. It seemed that they have learnt to share their joy and
pain, to accept each other as brother and sister, they were together as one,
inspite of the social stigmas that they might face when people know the
reality. Just a few moments with them left us with so many questions behind,
yet convinced to live life with all its challenges.
‘When
there are children who could be wondering ‘Why was I even born? – Am I who is
bestowed with everything ought to complain about anything around me?’, ‘When
there are children who cannot have personal attention-Am I, who is old enough ought
to think only about SELF and not about the neighbour?’, When there are these children
who are so full of gratitude, Am I not forever indebted to God?
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