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Monday, January 10, 2011

Who will take care of my little sister?

Picture this: A kid around 10-12yrs of age goes out everyday from his home, out in every possible direction,in search of his brother who has been missing for about an year or so but comes back home to take care of his little sister. Their parents have been dead for more than a year. He hails from a village in interior Bihar. During one of his forays, he gets caught in the web of human trafficking. And is later rescued by the police and has now been placed in a Government residential home in Chennai, Tamilnadu. Right from the day he came into the home people see him crying. When asked he replies that his little sister is all alone with nobody to take care of her. He knows nobody in the village. Even the only person whose name he can remember is the one who has been beating and ill treating him.
This kid begged me to save him and send him back to save his sister. These are the kind of scenes you come across in the Home. Every kid has his own story. We cannot completely believe these kids for various reasons yet there is a possibility that these stories are true. It's sad that we feel so helpless in a situation like this. We hope the government takes swift action in such issues. But it is so easy to pass on the burden to the government forgetting that WE are the government.
I would request everyone to think about these kids just a moment: we have comfortable lifestyles - going to pizza corner for lunch, Saturday nights to pubs, Friday evening to Satyam theatre for a movie, play games with our playstation, chat with friends over Facebook. These kids have hardly 0.1% of the comfort that we have. It just takes a couple of hours for anyone to make some difference in the lives of these little people. If you think you can do something let us know….Join our facebook community – HUGS India
Karthik B

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