Sofosh is the counselling centre of Sassoon Hospital. The full form stands to be Society of Friends of the Sassoon Hospitals! This centre offers a lot of patient welfare service in the premises of Sassoon Hospital.
Without any more boring stuff, let me get down to the crux! Shreevatsa is the adoption and child care centre of Sofosh where children between 0days – 6 years find shelter away from their biological parents. These can be children who’re rescued by police, abandoned children, children of unwed mothers etc. The thought of world being brutal is natural to strike when you see these children playing as normally as the kids of Tatas and Ambanis with the broken toys that have been donated by many of the socially aware individuals.
The field trip was nice and short. There was a lady who was clued up totally about what she was talking and briefed us about the organization in great detail. I was feeling all empowered to pursue the Women and Development course and was happy that we were getting a chance to do all these things and expand our knowledge bank.
The moment of pride filled my heart completely and I was feeling like this winner from some pageant! Then suddenly came the disastrous shock, as if the judge said that you’re second not first in the pageant! We were taken to the room where the children aged between 0days to 3months were kept. Their beds were joined and they had cage-like separators with name plates in front mentioning their name, DOB and other information. All the children were wide awake in their beds and smiling away to God’s glory as if nothing in the world can stop them from being happy. Earth split under my feet as it just flashed, that these are the babies without their mothers, without the feed, without a family and with a put on identity. GOSH! I would have burst out in tears seeing their smiles and sparkling eyes –all telling me that – “Radz, be strong, we all are happy and enjoying!”
All breath choked, I moved out immediately to get some fresh air. I was speechless for the next three odd hours with just that room flashing in front of my eyes again and again….One experience that would never erase from my mind….
I close the post with tears and this anti-Radz type post is just directly from the deepest inside of my heart….
2 comments:
Eye opener experience indeed! So sorry 2 see children abandoned due to various unfortunate reasons. It is really heart wrenching. When u came home and narrated the whole visit to me, I remembered our NSS visit in Class VII to an old age home wherein old parents were abandoned by their children and i came home and could not eat or sleep for two days after that.
It may be heart breaking, but it is a fact of life. Earth is not a perfect sphere.
There is so much pain, so much violence in our world, but we feel the pain only when we see/hear about such things.
The good part of story is THERE ARE PEOPLE TAKING CARE OF THEM, though children may not be having a "normal family".
Neo
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