POOR LITTLE DARLINGS

The smiles on the faces of the little children I am pictured with belie their unfortunate circumstances in life.  Some of them are not actually orphans but abandoned children whose parents left them at the Home and never returned for them.  A couple of the older girls have no birth certificates as their parents did not bother to register their births and so they could not enrol in government schools.  The people at the Home are doing their best to get these children registered but the red tape is making it difficult.
Each time Lai Yoong and I visit the children at the Vision Home, we hear of their plight and feel very sad.  What can the two ordinary aunties do?  We can just visit, bring food for the children and buy them presents. Really I do feel really helpless.

 Lai Yoong with Madu.. Madu's father passed away and her mother remarried and left them at the Home.

 The children with their caretaker, Miss Saundari

 Me with Miss Saundari and the children

 Madu is 6 years old but looks more like a 3 year old.  She came to the Home 6 months ago.

 One of the older girls cooking lunch in the kitchen.

 Yogesh chopping the chicken into smaller pieces for the curry chicken

Li Ping who is mentally slow helps to fold the clothes of the children in the Home

 This is Siva.  He is Madu's elder brother

 Angel and Li Na

 Me giving Angel a cuddle

 Angel turns two in a few days' time

Lai Yoong with Angel