Stories of Hope

In January 2018, little Amuliya was brought to SOS Children’s Village Bangalore. As per the Children’s Village norms, the child underwent a complete health check-up. After which it was found that Amuliya’s haemoglobin levels were as low as 9.2 g/dL. This was alarming for her SOS mother as well as for the Village Director who then started taking personal care of the child to ensure that she comes up the curve.
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Gauri, 14 and Rupali, 12 are sisters. With their parents toiling hard as daily wage laborers in Kalyan’s brick manufacturing factories, in Maharashtra, these girls never had a normal childhood. Even as kids they were carried along to the factory sites by their parents, and when they became old enough to stand, they had already joined work to help with the family income. Unable to secure two square meals a day, education of the girls remained a distant dream.
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Fourteen-year-old Shobha from Telangana was just about four, when her father died. Her mother, Padma had to fend alone for both of them as their in-laws became indifferent and one day both mother and daughter were asked to leave the house. Shobha started living in constant fear and grief, she suffered in hunger alone with her mother.
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As a young woman Aarti Devi could not understand why she was developing scaly patches on her hands and feet. She ignored the problem and after some time her hands and feet started deforming. She had leprosy and due to lack of treatment her scaly patches had aggravated. Aarti, now 45, lives in Sundarpur leprosy colony with suffering from leprosy.
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A student of Class V, Abhishek Kumar Paswan aspires to be a musician and make his father proud. Recently he was awarded the Raj Saran Varma Scholarship for excellence in English, a stellar milestone for a child who did not know how to speak English when he joined the school in 2015.
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