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Orphanages, kids and their parents
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Recently one of my colleagues changed her job to become an Adoption Counsellor at a Delhi orphanage. The news was rather a bizarre for me for I had started growing fond of her and was looking forward to change my department and work under her able guidance. I requested her not to leave. But gradually with time I realised that she has chosen a rather noble field wherein she would help children crave their future.
But the full intensity of her job did not dawn on me until I spoke with her recently. Her explanation about her work culture and colleagues touched my heart. I realised that from on onwards she was not going to sit in AC cabin with a lot of paper work and gossipy colleagues rather she would be kept company in a huge group of children right from newborns to seven years of age, the youngest being just three day old.
She told me that every children in these orphanages have their own story. The stories of these unfortunate kids were touching.
A girl child was left behind because her father wanted to get married again after his wife's death. Can anyone go and ask that man would he have left his child in the same circumstances if it wold have been a male child? or would his wife have left their child in case he had died?
The answers are simple no. But her's in not the only case in the orphanage. There are kids left by unmarried mothers, by parents who just thought having a kid will not go with their professional lives, by parents who want to remarry.
But then as a coin as two sides there's a happier side to this sad saga also. Irresponsibility, professional success and social shame gives way to hope and happiness for loving couples who cannot have a child or simply want to adopt one to expand their families.
Many kids from these orphanages get great foster parents and live much healthier and happier lives from they would have otherwise lived. And in return they give unconditional love to their parents as they have nothing to loose.
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But the full intensity of her job did not dawn on me until I spoke with her recently. Her explanation about her work culture and colleagues touched my heart. I realised that from on onwards she was not going to sit in AC cabin with a lot of paper work and gossipy colleagues rather she would be kept company in a huge group of children right from newborns to seven years of age, the youngest being just three day old.
She told me that every children in these orphanages have their own story. The stories of these unfortunate kids were touching.
A girl child was left behind because her father wanted to get married again after his wife's death. Can anyone go and ask that man would he have left his child in the same circumstances if it wold have been a male child? or would his wife have left their child in case he had died?
The answers are simple no. But her's in not the only case in the orphanage. There are kids left by unmarried mothers, by parents who just thought having a kid will not go with their professional lives, by parents who want to remarry.
But then as a coin as two sides there's a happier side to this sad saga also. Irresponsibility, professional success and social shame gives way to hope and happiness for loving couples who cannot have a child or simply want to adopt one to expand their families.
Many kids from these orphanages get great foster parents and live much healthier and happier lives from they would have otherwise lived. And in return they give unconditional love to their parents as they have nothing to loose.
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