Binnacle of our Secretary in India - October 2007

These are the lived experiences day to day in a different reality

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First	Good to all, I am made an impression as people in India smile. I am enchanted. People are wonderful. Everybody smiles. I am going to go to the Foundation Smiles to spend the day. I have known Spaniards who will take so much to me to that Foundation as to a shelter of a nun of Zaragoza that gathers children of the street. The street is very hard but there is much to do. Everything is a photo and a feeling that fills to you. We were yesterday with a pile of children of the street buying to them rice and milk and we took them to house in motocarro, to verify that they really did not resell it.
Second	I have been speaking with the nun of Zaragoza that I said to you yesterday, a Spanish nun of the sisters Anas, we have been in a home of children of the street happening the day until the five and were left another day to see all the projects calmly, I go prepared psychologically to see projects and realities, take much of apadrinamiento according to which the sister said to us and there it is the center where the presenter Anne Igartiburu adopted a girl and is going all the years to see it, have enough economic aid but now they are going to need for a AIDS center that this slope of construction and is mounting a center of attention to people with AIDS. The shelter is a place financed by the apadrinamientos and is thought like a home so that the children gathered of the street make a normal life, seems everything very legal. Everything is a photo. The Foundation Smiles takes a Catalan Jaume call to it. Kisses and feel to you close.
Third	We are in the dining room of the children inside del lodges. There are 210 children. They give to eat to all what they approach. Also they are trying to make a shelter for boys and will need financing to furnish it as well as for the children whom they love to study. It is incredible what one can get to feel here. There is a bus that gathers the children of the home and it takes them school to a near. I have contacted with several Spaniards who live here and who are sponsored person several children and can even continue what we begin and make photos to the children and receive things for them. Also contaros that we have slope the visit to the Foundation Smiles, in these days we are going to go Thursday surely and also it is a house home. Very I am deluded and receiving much of all the people who you are been. Tomorrow we will make many photos and I already tell you.
Quarter	Good all, I follow with in the shelter of children of the street, take the sisters to It of Santa Ana, being a home in which they give shelter to 210 children. What but it surprises is the respect that is had between all, as they exist young and greater than every day they eat in the entrance, very healthful food. Today in concrete they ate rice and eggs. There are children who have not been able to go. The spirit of centro/hogar like he happens in that he the past visits summer in the north of Nicaragua is that all collaborate that they do not comply single with receiving, the parents which they send to the children to the center to eat okay also help in the center and with his collaboration it is an mode of payment Tienen but homes in Bombay and works wonderfully well, directs to a Spanish nun of Zaragoza Primi sister to it, doing an impressive work Every day bus comes to gather them and it takes them to schools near, they are fomenting between that want to study race that makes infirmary by the amount of people who are needed although many go away to countries like Dubai, unfortunately many sometimes do not arrive by the horrible personal circumstances and of abandonment the children go with uniform everything paid by the center (by the subventions and aids) what happens that often the own police gives to the sisters to the children then but they follow in the street without eating and eating of sweepings and you exceed In the streets of Bombay are observed very many barefoot people like in the environs of this center, Now are slope that inaugurate a center for children which will be less numerous by the problematic one of such and the limited resources and will be taken by a group of Indian seminaristas that control them and avoid that they lose by the streets Hay to avoid to buy any thing to them to the young ones because there are Mafias in the own establishments which soon gather what they have sold and they give a misery him to the children, ej. rice, usually guess right as it passed us to us through the warning that they gave us if the products are opened so that they cannot give back it Ahora begins Christmas for the people of India and illuminates everything, Bombay almost has 20 million inhabitants, a majority of but on five million it lives in houses in worse conditions of those than we called shacks, it is not possible to be explained with words the lamentable conditions with which they must live, the majority falls practically Today were children who had malaria and they could not go to the school like that has the influenza, in the home in each plant have great rooms with beds and bunks and in all the plants exist great trunks in where they are in individual bags the dolls and toys that has each girl, everything donated En this home becomes as much food that it is distributed like I have indicated between the people who cannot eat. For the home of children they are going to need furniture and numerous objects of preparation in which we have begun to speak for possible collaboration Like they lack few children to support due to the great activity and work that makes, in months is going away to also inaugurate a center of children affected by the AIDS, will be tried to collaborate In the children of all the streets of Bombay sees a smile, although it costs to say it are happy people that they trasmiten and they give peace, very pacific being protected in its espiritualidad. Almost all the children go barefoot and live between rats, unfortunately, many men and women prick stones. Many naked children see themselves, tinkling in the street, playing between pools I will continue informing, to ask to me details to You that interest to you and that In these days has gone me also I am going to visit some school I publish to see the curricula and to know the system educative, to be able to make interchanges with the Spanish schools, surely Friday already I will have all the information and I will visit a school to speak to them of our projects and you delude Surely tomorrow I will visit the Foundation Smiles of Bombay that has been three years and a Spanish of Barcelona began concretely. a strong hug and in this earth each person trasmite a photo, an experience and surprising reality in the times that we lived for that reason is necessary to continue putting our sand granite for concienciarnos. With affection, Alberto, I will continue telling to you.