Indian economy is booming, no doubt about it, we are in race to produce worlds richest men, one after another… TATA motors is coming up with their stunning RS. 1 lakh (USD 3000) TATA NANO… NRI are returning to India and spending hundreds of dollars. Foreign citizens are choosing India as their residence..

Banks are just their to hand you as much loan as you need. Our Stock Market is running faster than the fastest Farrery !

and yet, today once again I experience the other side of our economy. I experience a life and death struggle of a mother for her 9 year old child.

Google, and on paper there are so many NGOs, every day you walk out side and you see a event, blood donation camp, or any thing related to help the poor is running in your city.

Today I see, 1st hand how much that help is reaching the needful.

My Cousin Neal, called me and Ayan (cousin) up to ask us to come down to a place real fast and with Rs. 1200/- (USD 30). No reason were given. When we reached there we see a mother, carrying her 9 year old boy seating beside the road.

It wasn’t some thing which is hard to find in India, because of the new breed of professional beggars. But there were some thing different about this picture.

There is an old say, “Eyes tell you a hundred story” and truly it does.

Neal (my cousin) didn’t had to tell me, as when I made an eye contact with the mother, I felt the pain… I felt, she hadn’t eaten well for days… She seemed weak to carry her 9 year old with her, the child looks really pale and sick… She had taken some refuse, just beside the road in front of a shop selling “Imported items”…

As NEAL described, the shop owner had not only imported items to sell, but also his behavior. The shop owner was so rough with her to get her off from his door step.

The mother was using the drainage water to treat her child by pouring it in his forehead. We checked all the documents and we saw, the child had Thalassemia.

The worst curse one could ever have.

Over the years when ever the talk of higher education cost comes up, I see parents are discussing and taking it as investment for their child. Thinking of a better job / better future for their child and yes off course thinking the child would take care of their when they get older.

And there I was standing, middle of the road, in front a mother of a 9 year old. We learnt she had invested every thing she had (not much though as considering her poor back ground) even knowing she was fighting a loosing battle for fer child. A child who might never be cured yes that mother was still fighting.

The medical documentation suggested that the child was in need of regular blood transplant… Rs. 1200/- (USD 30) a month was minimum what the PG Hospital (Medical College Kolkata) needed just for the transplant.

USD 35000 is what it takes to fund your self at a technological university for 1 year.. and It takes USD 30 to keep a child alive for 30 days !! There are at-least couple of thousand students are spending that money on their education in USA alone…

What a contrast.

She begged to earn Rs. 1200/- (USD 30) last month but this month, she was unable to even feed the child.

She didn’t ask for a penny to us, she was simply crying hugging her investment.

I was wondering where were those so called NGOs suppose to be working with the government hospital to help out the poor ??

When ever the local welfare associations conduct any such camp and asks for donation, Rs. 200/- (5) seems too much and we bargain on that to make that Rs. 150/- (USD 3).

Yes true, today we also felt the indecision while with that Rs. 1200/- but the otherway around.

I am a student, there is nothing or rather not much I earn. but what ever little I do, I use for my entertainment and stuff related like that. I am expecting USD 100 this moth from Google for adsense on ChotoCheeta.com, where as I have plans for that money but in front of her determination and dedication towards that loosing battle which she is fighting, all my plans seem so tiny… but then again, I may be able to fund her medicine and all important blood transplant need for 2 months max but what would happen after that ??

I thank Google for giving the opportunity, to ask that to come back next month also to support the need for her child.

The question is still haunting me.. What happens after 3 month ?? Would we be able to find anyway out for the 9 year old ??

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