Pune: Day 5

At each of our distributions in Pune, the children have arrived accompanied usually by a parent and sometimes a grandparent.  Yesterday we were privileged to meet and speak, through an interpreter, with a grandmother who is raising two of her grandchildren since the death of two of her adult children.

The eldest, a girl who is ten years old, lost her mother when she was only 9 months old.  Her father left her to be cared for by his mother; he remarried however did not take back his daughter.

The little grandson is now six years old and was orphaned when both of his parents died close together from sickness.  These two young children are cousins.

This grandmother supports her family, including her husband, by cleaning houses.  Her husband is unable to work as he suffers from asthma.  He frequently visits the hospital due to asthma attacks.

Because of her exceptional circumstances, both children received a bedkit.  The grandmother was so grateful for the bedkits; she said now, for the first time, the children could have separate beds.

Here are some more pictures of the children we have met so far:

Team Pune 2015
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