We were back at Sneha Child Development Centre for the fourth week running. The chaos has considerably lessened and the children seem to enjoy seeing us come back every week. In fact, they exclaim in delight, "You've come back to teach us". So here's something we learnt about one of the kids at the centre. A beautiful little girl, just 4 years old with no mother and a drug addict for a father was removed from her home due to unsuitable living conditions and placed at Sneha a couple of years ago. The father has never visited her once since she was removed from her own home. In the meantime, a childless couple had shown great interest in adopting this little girl. They had started legal adoption proceedings and had almost come to the end of it, when the biological father, still her legal guardian, demanded 1.5 million rupees in exchange of terminating his parental rights. This man had placed a price tag on his child. The adoption proceedings were immediately stopped by the couple who were devastated, but not willing to give in to the demands of a drug addict wanting to swap his daughter for a couple of million. This story is heartbreaking, but it has made us more determined to continue serving underpriviledged children in our community.
"We ourseleves feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop"
Mother Teresa
Hope through Education
“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” Stephen Grellet
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