Children’s Stories & Case Histories

SHAM BABU TAMANG – from a letter written to his sponsors

Educate a child in Nepal First of all I like to say forgive me if its incorrect words because I am not so good in English writing and reading. I am starting before I was born. I don’t know exactly what happened before I was born. I heard from my grand father and mother that my mother did not want to give a birth to me. I think I was already wrote about this things. Anyway she gave me a birth but after she left me and ran from home. My father was dead before I born. When I was six month in mother’s stomach my father was killed by some people. And my brother was already three year’s old. Then when I was becoming little young I was with my grandparents till three, four years I got love and care from my grandparents. But after that I was always beaten by G.father he used to come home drunk and beat me and my brother too. Then I don’t feel to stay at home because of beaten.

So I left home I was 6 years old. I don’t know where I go. I just left home and staying at temple near by village towards Kathmandu. I used to beg some food and at night I sleep on the street. Sometimes I feel cold then I put a sack on me. Sometimes grandfather caught me and take me home and tied me with rope to a pole for two, three days with lots of beating. Somehow I escape from these and run at some place in temple. Its happen maybe one year that after I know that temple very well. Then I took a bus towards Kathmandu at that moment I was lost on the way and miss the bus. And I just walk on the street for food and I enter the small restaurant for wash plate owner of the restaurant they give a work for only food. Not paying any money to me. And I just leave the work after few months.


	Post where Sham was tied and beaten

It happen 2,3 years than how I don’t know that I reach Pashaputinath temple. I was staying with a Sadu and whole day I playing around and when lunch time or dinner time I always on time. Then I made some friends. We used to bath in the Bagmati River every day. One of the friends knows the Boudenath very well. And said me that lets go to Boudha we can make some money. I was very excited to go Boudha because I never see a Buddhist Temple before. I was so afraid that stupa was so big and different people at that time I thought ‘Am I in Nepal or some other place’?. Maybe its different country. I asked my friend Is this Nepal. After a few hours he was begging and one Tibetan man gave him 50 rupees. He said ‘ you see how fast I make 50 rupees’ and I tried and got 20. At night we slept on the Stupa streets it was summer time so we didn’t feel cold. I met lots of beggar friends. Finally friends are talking about studies in middle of talking I said I would like to go to school.

One day I saw a foreigner with lots of street kids, she giving noodles to everybody. She came towards me but I didn’t understand what she said. After a few months a friend said he will meet a western couple at evening time they will take him for dinner. And I also said that I will go with him. Is that OK friend. He said OK and we two wait for evening. Kate was there ………………”

School a child in Nepal Kate Paterson was doing voluntary work at the Buddha Academy and she took him to see Dorje who took him in. He studied in the school for 6 years before he joined carpentry training. He became very skillful and for two years became a teacher of carpentry in the school. He still lived in the boys hostel and was paid a little too. This he was encouraged to save for the time he would leave for the outside world. Then the small cornfield and the mud house lived in by his grandparents was badly damaged by a landslide. Sham took out all his savings and rebuilt the house. After his teaching he became employed by one of the biggest furniture factories in Nepal where he has learnt advanced carpentry skills. Last year his grandfather died. Sham paid for the funeral. He still visits his grandmother and does what he can for her.

Layla Paterson sponsored him until he was able to leave. She last visited him in 2009 and found a strong, compassionate, funny, independent and happy man of 26.

DHURBA SUBEDI

Sponsor a childs education in Nepal Dhurba comes from a poor family from mid-west Nepal. His family’s occupation had been farming, but when his father stabbed and killed his mother and was subsequently sent to jail, Dhurba had to go to live with his uncle. His uncle is kind but very poor and he could not afford to keep Dhurba.

He was recommended by the district education office to BABS. He has settled in well and is a remarkably cheerful young boy despite his traumas.

BUNITA KUMARI SHAH

Give a child an education in Nepal Bunita parents are landless peasants from the Terai region bordering India. They belong to a very low caste and are very poor. They have no access to electricity or clean drinking water. Due to this people die during the monsoon every year as they do in the inevitable floods. Bunita’s father and brother work as labourers in a furniture workshop earning a pittance. None of her siblings have been educated and her father requested she be given a chance by having an education. She came, thin, but cheerful and has already adjusted well to the school. She goes to nursery class.

SUNITA WAIBA

Educate a child in Nepal Sunita is the youngest daughter of the five children of a poor family in Ramechap district in Eastern Nepal.

The family have no electricity or water. The other four children help their parents in the field but it is poor land and the family face great difficulties feeding the children. We now have her here in the Special Class.

ANGITA TAMANG – Written by herself

Life is a journey where we have to face many struggles. Life is also a game that comes only once. I had been through a bitter experience that I would like to share.

When I was in village I had to play the role of a mother in doing all the domestic work, working in the fields, looking after the livestock, collecting firewood, fetching water from the long distance, cutting grass for fodder etc. One day when I went to cut grass for fodder I slipped and broke my leg. So, I was brought to Kathmandu for treatment and since then I can’t play or run like any other children. I felt that I was the unluckiest person in the world.

In my village girls are not allowed to go to school. Because of my fate I got the golden chance to stay and study in this school. When I first came here it was like heaven. And then, I thought I was not the unluckiest but the luckiest person in the world. I am very happy these days that I don’t have to do things that I used to do in my village. I got the chance to study as much as I want. So, life is full of happiness and sorrows.

Buddha Academy Boarding School is one of the precious and wonderful school for the poor and orphaned children. Lastly, I want to suggest to all my fellow students don’t waste time or misuse the golden opportunity we got and study hard and let us make our Principal Sir happy and more successful in his future efforts. I wish him the best of luck.