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My Infant Has Red Cheeks
A day in our lives ...
Sorry for the lack of updates lately! As you can imagine, you go here at the moment - to say the least - to be pretty hectic!
The first three children (Amol, Poonam and Mahesh) came on the 21st June 2005 and had a little time to adjust to the new environment before the other three children were taken. The few extra days were for Poonam, Amol Mahesh and very good, because the settling into Home for the three posed a major challenge.
The three older boys (Basraj, Akash and Sanjay) were then Monday night at the door. They were all barefoot and had a plastic bag with him in which were two pairs of too big pants, two pairs of shorts and a T-shirt. These things, they shared a threesome! We had with the (barefoot) children go first, so buy shoes, that we with them at all were allowed to enter a clothing store ...
Thus began in the last few weeks, our living together as one big, happy family. ..
Three days after the arrival of Poonam, Amol Mahesh and there was a little nerve-wracking incident. The three ran away from home, there was gone after a few days' holiday camp atmosphere "and had they realized that they follow rules and discipline in the home show. They also wanted to not go to school still have to learn at home because their learning compared to the exciting life on the road was too boring.
Several social workers told us that this behavior is fairly typical for street children, but was little consolation for us at this time. Thank God the children came on the same day back (they were running back in the slum) and have now settled down well after a few weeks.
have now made considerable progress in all areas of children! You say "please", "thank you" and "sorry" and wait to eat until everyone has something on the plate. After eating, they wash their plates and cups you yourself know that the laundry basket for dirty laundry is just a bit and help with the household (eg: wear garbage out, pick up laundry off the line, ...). Each child gets a small role in the home and can make a check mark in a list if the task is finished. The courses alternate in all children from the various tasks - works great!
Our charges have also learned a lot already insane when it comes to everyday activities! All six now know how to brush your teeth, how to use a soap dispenser, how to walk on a toilet (!) And much more. The adjustment to an ordered life is great so far ...
I'm sure with that many parents (including mine) are reading this with a grin and think to be "You see now what we've been through everything with you and your siblings?" .... But I promise you that these are children a far greater challenge than I ever was! They are good kids, only they never taught anyone how important it is to go through training to make the school ready and to lead a regular life. Moreover, they are neither accustomed to following instructions and rules, to live in a family-like environment where they can not come and go as they please. They do not understand that it freshly painted walls can not simply scribbling with markers and that you must wash after using the toilet. Five minutes to sit still for the most extremely difficult - thus, the daily English lessons in the home to a huge fiasco! The children all grew up in a world that stood in the violence of the day and were alcohol, drugs and abuse (think before - some of our guys have been drinking alcohol regularly and have all chewed tobacco!). We often have the impression that the children would obey only if we were to apply hard blows. This is extremely problematic, as we would use in the education of course, never force! Our "time-outs" (the children have when they have done something, sit a few minutes still on the wall) to impress the little kids - they do not obey, since they will know that they do not expect more than a few quiet minutes ...
Somebody asked me if I might describe the typical day in the home. I must say that this is actually a very difficult task because the children are so just come and we still follow any fixed routine. Every day there is again to cope with a few mini-crises, but it sometimes topsy-turvy.
Anyway, the day begins for us at about 8:30 am (this is to have absolute lucky because we had enrolled the children in the first two weeks in an English school by 7 clock began early ... for us that meant getting up at the latest by 6 clock ... every day ...* yuck *). About this time the kids wake us and we will make breakfast. The children brush their teeth, eat (there is toast with butter and jam, fruit and Indian tea "Chai"), then a shower for the guys (Poonam is the only one who takes a shower in the evening). (Eat teeth brushing, showers) This order shall be scrupulously respected by the children ... we were told that from this routine in India the science is done (which I consider to be superstitious mumbo-jumbo, but we leave the children after their conviction act ...). Once everyone has eaten and showered, we go over to the other apartment, spend two hours with the kids to learn English. We have recently started a second apartment we've rented in order to create more space for the children and housing for volunteers. We have an office in it for us, a classroom and a game room for the dogs and some rooms for volunteers who stay for longer periods than the social worker with us. In recent days we have started to clean the apartment and set them up. The classroom already looks fabulous - it is a table, a cupboard, a bookshelf for learning materials and mats for the children (in India you're used to, sitting for all activities simply cross-legged on the floor mats are ... but to learn something more comfortable).
Our English tutor has been really helped a lot. Many of the children can not sit still long, so we try to make our lessons very varied. Currently we are just as many volunteers and board members such as children, so each child gets more individual instruction. The individual instruction is great, because we can take into account the strengths and weaknesses of each child individually (ahem. .. such as those of Akash who is trying after five days most intense timpani still desperately and unsuccessfully, the to remember names and the spelling of various colors ...* grin *). In general, the children learn English, however, already made giant strides - the children learn a lot from the daily English classes and need to speak with us as much as possible. Sometimes we are all together on a film in English (oh how good that Disney movies are!), We sometimes make our evenings in the home.
Geeta, our cook / supervisor comes to about 10 clock in the morning to the home and begins to prepare lunch. We bring the children back from about 11:30 to English classes in the main house to eat ... after that captures the chaotic Them ready for school (the children look for lost pencils, Poonam takes 20 minutes to his hair weave, all pull on his shoes and check are all the books in the school bag ... we now fill their water bottles and snack boxes and do the dishes). At 12:15 pm we walk from the house and travel by rickshaw to school (the school has gone beyond the river and too far to go on foot). We chose this school because it is one of the few public schools can go simultaneously to the guys and girls. In most schools have girls from 7h am to noon and boys school 12:30 to 17:30 ... this would be for us the living rather difficult make, because we then shared the English classes and also could not hold all day long to bring children to school and would pick up.
After we brought the children to school at 12:30, we have board members getting a little free time. In most cases, however, we have not really "free", as there are bureaucratic issues, as well as purchases or medley is done. We need to write long e-mails, fill out forms for the children and take care of administrative matters. Geeta starts at about 16:00 and to prepare the dinner and we help her as best we can. Usually cut small we vegetables, peel potatoes and help with other little things. Jackie (a volunteer from the U.S.) really want to learn Indian cooking and Geeta sees every day with great zeal.
two of us go at 17:15 with a rickshaw to school to pick up the kids. Sometimes we even manage to fit on the way back, all in a rickshaw (or 6 children and 2 adults !!!)... at about 17:45 we went back home with the whole gang ... the children are always hyperakiv and tell us about the school. Mostly they talk quite confused because they are so excited ...
Geeta then makes the same Chai (Indian tea) and the children receive Chai and biscuits as a snack. After about 6 clock in the evening we go out there with all to play with the children, football, volleyball, cricket or baseball. Since we bought a couple of Frisbees, the kids have become avid Frisbee player! They throw the frisbee just as high as possible in the amount and scream out loud "Wahuuuuu" - great fun for us all!
Jackie, a volunteer from the United States makes a sports project with the children and teaches them many dances and games. Mostly, we all participate in it - which strengthens the bond between us and the children enormously.
go between 19:00 and 19:15 we all back into the house and the kids play until dinner, or do their homework. Dinner is at 20:00 (for us, it's pretty late, but the children want to eat so late, because it is so common in India) and then we try, the children snacks (take out trash, sweep, ...) to be done. Then, still played, and some children get ready before the next school day. At about 21:15 we start the "Bettgeh procedure" ... we'll send to brush your teeth to move the kids and (so far we have had with the relocation of the biggest problems - the children were still never more clothes and do not understand why they have to put to sleep a little different than during the day ... in addition they will remember not the difference between pajamas and daily wear and we usually go to the top, to show them the right clothes). At about 21:45, the boys go to bed (they all sleep in one room) - but can not sleep because a long time. For us the bedtime of the children begins the nerve-racking time of the day, as the boys try over and over again to make noise and to slink out of the room. Poonam is the only girl so far and has therefore also a eigened room. It is quieter than the guys and we read her books at night yet, to improve their English skills. This time we want to read soon introduce to the boys ... but right now we have enough problems to bring them at all to lie down and stay to sleep.
sleep At 10:30 the children and then all we are at this time usually so tired that we go to bed. At night there are sometimes small disturbances - Mahesh is bedwetting, sleepwalking Amol, Poonam is afraid and wants to not only sleep in a bed (it comes in the middle of the night to lie down in one of our beds) ...
aaaand that's it ... a typical day in the life the residents of Ashraya Initiative! Stay tuned .... now are some more news and updates from us!
Thursday, September 1, 2005
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