We all can make a difference - 1

I decided to pen three cases that was brought to my attention in the recent past and have been involved in their lives since then.

A 23 year girl/woman in India who has a Bachelors in Business Administration from the open University (Not a regular college but it is a correspondence course) is being asked to accept a 30 year difference in the groom because the financial constraints could be relieved.

A 23 year old who detests her job is forced to continue her job because the 50 plus year father decided to call it a day. Currently finding a place offered by her grandmother for the entire family, Is not an immediate crisis but the fear looms in her mind and is taking day by day without dreams about the future.

A 24 year old is being threatened by a father to sell her off to the Bombay Red light district unless she shells out the money as and when he needs it. No remorse for having married thrice, left the first wife with a son, and had a daughter and a son from the second, took the third to bear for him two daughters. Currently lives with the third unless situation warrants for the second.

It is nauseating to say the least.

I am not a Philanthropist nor do I have the money to involve myself and get engulfed by the raw emotions of the families for which I have no answer.

It is easy for me to walk away and accept it as karma/fate/or so be it, as millions wander on the streets with nothing to call for themselves their own but still living with hope or no hope and making it till the next day dawns.

I have been involved in charity work for a long time without an organization for I had believed that I had to know of the end results of where my contribution went. So I did help as long as my hands could reach out and never looked back.

Being in India at a different stage in my life and in blessed life, recalling my childhood days makes me humble, feeling secure, and empathetic to the sick and downtrodden. The poor quality of life I experienced in my childhood doesn't in any way negate the sufferings of those who tried to break out of it but failing time and again because there was not a hand to offer and pull them from the shadows of death, which makes me to experience the wants, the sufferings, the disappointments, and to give up and resign to fate to which I succumbed for a long time.

So I decided to plunge head first to wipe away the tears and instill hope and let those three cases I mentioned, know, that they are not alone and will soon find the daybreak in the starless night, with the moon wrapped by the clouds and no light shining on their paths in the destiny that they seek and the directions they guess.

I have decided to start a not for profit organization to educate those in their late teens and young adulthood to give hope, create dreams and make it work for them. I am trying to help and honor what my parents inculcated in me to give education to those who need and seek, for it is the passport to success.

I will share my plans as soon as I finalize and get started. I need, not just your blessings but your wallet too!!.