小朋友为她画的手
刚从德里回来不久,今天清晨收到印度大朋友Namrata的分享,她因考试和实习,有近三个月没有和小朋友见面了,虽保持着联系,但内心还是沮丧。昨天去了小朋友在贫民窟(Kanak Durga)的家,小朋友Zainab和她妹妹,母亲都对她好亲切,帮她做这做那的,让她喜悦和感动后的分享。我想很多志愿者都能读英文,就在此和大家分享了。
祖禹
Best day of my journey 29.07.14 Yesterday was the best day of my BFLF journey. It was Eid and I went to Zainab's house for celebration. She looked extremely pretty. I reached there at 2pm. Because it was festival I took sweets for her house, chocolates for kids and a parandi for Zainab as her Eid gift. I Went around meeting her entire extended family, playing with her cousins, chatting with her new bhabhis and her mom. We ate a lot from channas to kheer and amazing dahi bhallas. They have a custom of giving a token of Rs50 Eidi to all the children in the house. Her mother came very sweetly and gave me my Eidi too. At around 5pm her little sister asked why she didn't put Mehendi for me so she said she will and I happily agreed too. She was putting the very amazing design when she told me that she had done her first earning project where she did the bridal Mehendi for a girl in her locality and earned Rs 500. I was so stunned and so extremely proud of her. I asked her to come to my place for Karwa Chauth for which she said didi you ask my mom. I said ok and the topic ended for the time being. After around half an hour her mom came and I asked her if she could come to my place for the same, this was a normal question but I got the most amazing thing to hear from her mom, she said, "I trust you and I will speak to her dad". For 5mins I was blank, shocked with happiness. I didn't know how to react. After that when the feeling sank in I felt so much more responsible, I felt loved not only from my little friend but even her family, felt that I did really do something even if I myself used to think that I didn't.
Randy Sir, Kiran Ma'am and Anirudh's words of encouragement and belief replayed in my head. I had really lost faith, I was so de-motivated that I could not see a visible difference and impact that I was making in her life that I was going to quit the program at one point. But I am so glad that I didn't. One day, 3words and so much of love received. I can not express what I felt yesterday but the entire day today too I had a big smile on my face because of it.
I met zainab yesterday after almost 3 months but it was so nice going back to her. In the entire rush of life the 4 hours yesterday that I spent there gave me such a happy feeling. We don't talk much, only point to point questions, lots of silence and now I'm sure a lot of love and unconditional positivity. She's reached 11th class now so I've been really after her to improve on her English vocabulary any grammar so she promised me yesterday that she will read one book every week.
I'm so glad I didn't give up and most of all I am thankful to the entire Udayan Care family. Lots and lots of love and Thanku
Namrata |