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Issue
no: 21 |
22nd November, 2010 |
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In the film, after the 45-minute surgery and a five-day stay in the hospital, Pinki and her father return home to her mother, who cries with joy at the sight of her daughter’s beautiful face.
In the film’s final scenes, Pinki laughs with friends and another of Singh’s patients, 11-year-old Ghutaru Chauhan, plays cricket with classmates. Both children, according to Smile Train, are attending school and excelling in their studies.
Rotary clubs worldwide have directly funded more than 200 cleft lip and palate surgeries for children through Smile Train, according to the organization. In 2007, a $15,756 Rotary Foundation Matching Grant project, sponsored by the Varanasi Midtown club and the Rotary Club of Mansfield, Victoria, Australia, supplied medical and surgical equipment to the hospital in Varanasi where Singh’s team has performed more than 18,000 procedures.
“I’ve seen a large number of patients whose lives have been transformed after the surgery, “says Singh. “Through Smile Train, they have regained their confidence.”
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One young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company.
He passed the first interview; the director did the last interview, made the last decision.
The director discovered from the CV, that the youth’s academic result is excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research, never was a year he did not score.
The director asked, “Did you obtain any scholarship in school?” and the youth answered “none”.
The director asked, “Is it your father who paid for your school fees?” the youth answered, my father passed away when I was one year old, it is my mother who paid for my school fees.
The director asked, “Where did your mother work?” the youth answered, my mother worked as a cloth cleaner. The director requested the youth to show his hand, the youth showed a pair of hand that were smooth and perfect to the director.
The director asked, “Did you ever help your mother wash the clothes before?” The youth answered, never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books, furthermore, and my mother can wash clothes faster than me. The director said, I have a request, when you go back today, go and help to clean your mother’s hand, and then see me tomorrow morning.
The youth felt that as the chance of landing the job is high, when he went back, he happily wanted to clean his mother’s hand, his mother felt strange, happy but mixed with fear, she showed her hands to the kid.
The youth cleaned his mother’s hand slowly, his tears dropped down as he did that. It is the first time he found his mother’s hands so wrinkled, and there are so many bruises in her hands. Some bruises incite pains so strong that shiver his mother’s body when cleaned with water.
This is the first time the youth realized and experienced that it is this pair of hands that washed the cloth everyday to earn him the school fees, the bruises in the mother’s hand is the price that the mother paid for his graduation and academic excellence and probably his future.
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