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I stood there holding Gangamma's damp textbooks, in front of her broken home with her parents staring at a bleak future, wondering what hope means in this situation. I learnt that evening hope is a little child’s ability to look beyond the rubbles of a broken home and damp text books and dream of being a lawyer (not to make money) to give back to society (help others) what the society did not give her!. I walked off wondering what an audacious hope! " - Jayakumar Christian
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3259 E 95th St
Calumet Fisheries is where 95th Street meets the Calumet River bridge on Chicago’s South Side. Named one of five honorees for the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards America’s Classics category, it was honored for its timeless appeal and for quality food that reflects the character of their community. In 1979, Calumet Fisheries hosted the movie crew from The Blues Brothers when they jumped the 95th Street bridge in their Bluesmobile.
Video Clip of Bridge Jump
Considering the general situation of the children project has provided 3000 school uniform to all the sponsored children in the community.
A happy young man during a football training session at the Borneo Football International Academy. Daniel Arianto Gatang from Sei Gohong village, Kalimantan.
“My initial reaction was that they (World Vision India staff) are coming and giving something and they will soon leave. But I could tell that from the care they were giving is, they are actually expecting transformation from us.” Penta Rao’s family was in total turmoil a few years ago. He used to get drunk and he constantly argued with his wife, till one day he decided to leave her and the children. Alcoholism is a common problem in the urban slums of Vizak and some of the men in the community defend the addiction- “Men drink because working in industries where the environment is full of acids and pollution is very hard,” says one of the men from the community.
Penta Rao’s addiction meant that there was never enough food in the house. Roshini his 2 year old daughter was malnourished and got sick repeatedly. Tabitha the ADP manager says, “We saw that alcoholism and family problems were issues in the communities. So we have many happy family seminars to teach the families moral values and how to deal with relationship issues.”
One morning Penta Rao heard voices and loud activity at the community hall in the colony. He got curious, so he walked to the hall and stood at the door where he witnessed a happy family seminar in progress. Today when asked what all he learned from the seminar he says- “How to bring up children, problem resolutions, adjust to situations, respect the spouse…I learnt many things.” There is genuine happiness in his face as he says, “like they channelized the drain water, they channelized my family life.”