How long do we wait for “something to happen?” We hired an ambulance to take us to Aunty’s, pick up the sickest children, and take them to CWC.
I insisted we take them into the building.
The waiting area was interesting, as usual. The kidnapped girl was there again, and she really smiled when she saw me. The adoption people were back, this time with a mother whose husband had died. She was giving up her two children so they could have a better education. The little one in her arms was about two. The older girl looked about ten or eleven. I tried to figure out how this agency was going to insure their education and “better lives”. These were the same people who had given Aunty two children with disabilities, and they had stopped paying sponsorship.
We were called into the room. The Committee was clearly uncomfortable with the children there. They kept saying, “The children should go out. They will be happier, and I in my cheerful little way said, “Oh that’s ok, they are fine.” We were there about three hours. Many phone calls were made. The Committee said we would have to take the children back to Aunty’s. They were quite horrible to Aunty, but they had no solutions other than sending the children back home with her.
Maggie tries to tell the CWC that 25 years ago she was this child, but they aren’t listening.
I asked the Committee, “Are you saying there is no government place for children with disabilities?”
“No, there is no place for these children.” I was shocked at this admission.
I said, “But you are the highest authority. What do we do?”
They told us that in a week there would be a large delegation of legislators planning to visit Aunty’s home and they should give funds.
“But what if they don’t? What happens then to the children?”
One of the Committee members seemed to get it. She was back on the phone. I was asked to make a plea to the Sister at Mother Teresa’s. I did. Two children would be accepted there on a temporary basis. I chose the two weakest, thinnest, and sent them in our ambulance. Seema and Aunty took them to Mother Teresa’s, but just for a temporary basis. We waited around as more calls were made. Bijoy watched some of the children out in the hall.
Soon another group of people showed up, a kind of rescue group, and they arranged for the child with the head infection to be admitted to a hospital. So one group went in their big ambulance back to Aunty’s. Bijoy took our group home. Seema and I went in our ambulance to the hospital with the sick boy with the head infection. This evening Seema and I went to see him in the hospital.
We aren’t sure where he will be going when he is better.
Jan 28, 2012 @ 02:23:54
As always I am humbled by your brave and bold heads on approach. I can see that you and Dr. Jerry Galloway are cut from the same cloth: maybe desperation melded with passion does that. You merit the highest priority of prayer, and you have mine. We live in the fantasy that governments answer everything, but once again your revelations are clearly telling us: it takes people, not governments for they fail us and are too often self-serving after too much power is attained.
Thank you, my friend for continued sharing and efforts. God Bless.