Das Goldkinder Projekt macht Geschichten
In diesem Post kommen zwei der Mädchen zu Wort, die im Kinderdorf eine Art Zuhause gefunden haben. Ihre Erzählungen machen eines deutlich – dass das jahrelange Engagement vor Ort tatsächlich einzelnen Menschen einen Start in ein anderes Leben mit Perspektive ermöglicht. Aber lest selber:
Story of Nam Kalya.
The national sound from frog and insect is playing it rhythm during the dark
night like tonight. The wind also blows trees nearby my house as if it contested with the rain which is pouring heavily to tin roof of the house. The thunder is making a loud noise to cover the world of night. I cannot sleep because of fear from shaking of the house where I live with my mom since we moved to stay in Childlife. I cannot close my eyes to sleep while the thunder still makes a loud noise and the sound from raining still goes on.
It is for many years that we, me, my mom and my younger brother, have lived
a small house for the cook of Childlife in Childlife. I still think of the old day of mine and of my family.
Our family is very poor. We don’t have home to stay. My mum works here as
the cook so she has cooked for kids here since then. Kids here like the food my mom cook so sometimes kids make a joking that wherever they eat, it is not as delicious as the food my mom cook. This makes my mom very proud of her job, especially when there are some people speaking this to her. For me, it is so so, it may be that I eat the food cooked her for all my life.
Here kids call me “Nam ( means “water” in English)”. I am a girl from Ahka ,one of minority ethnic groups in the northern area of Thailand and in Myanmar, Shan state and other areas. I have a good chance to come to live in Childlife. I am poor and risk to be victim of human trafficking like child labor and etc. When I finished Pratom 2, grade 2, my mom told me that I had to leave school because she was not able to afford education fee in school due to our poverty. She did not have fund to support me to go to school so I had to leave school to work to earn money to support my younger brother. I was very sad with my fate so that I cried because I would not have a chance to study anymore.
But my fate was not so brutal to me, after I left school for a year, one day, one
of teacher in my old school told me to come here, Childlife and stayed here. At that
time, Childlife rent a small house for kids and the number of kids was not much like at the present. In Bannana or Childlife, I got a chance to study in Pratom 3 and I was very happy to have this chance. But I was happy for not so long time because I was worried about my mom and younger brother who did not have place to stay. My younger brother is a good, active and smart boy but he did not go to school. I tried to ask staff to let him live in Childlife because he wanted to go to school but there was no reply from staff. It was full to accept more children because there was not enough budget.
I ever asked for the used books, erasers and pencils many times and took
these things to him to practice writing ABC in order to make him happy and hopeful that he will go to school in one day. One day I decided to write a small letter and then sent it to Kru Ngaow to tell him the story of mine and younger brother’s and our difficulty. Next day in the morning Kru Ngaow, who look like gangster leader, walked to me and told me to bring my younger brother quickly. That day was one of the happiest days in my life because I would see my brother go to school. I never thought that Kru Ngaow who had fierce – looking face will have good heart. During the first days I came and stayed here in Childlife, I dared not walk close to him and I feared of him. I realized that we cannot judge people from their appearance.
When I moved to live in Childlife, I was very happy to get a chance to go back
to school. During staying in Childlife, I studied until I finished grade 6 in primary level and then went to secondary school. After finishing junior high school level, grade 9, I get supported by Childlife to go to study in a vocational school, Maeasai Vocational school, in vocational certificate level and now I am studying in 3nd year, last year, of this level.
I personally am friendly with people and jolly, like writing and speech. Here in
Childlife I am one of the youth activists for Childlife. Whenever I met people, I usually told about my dream from my young day that I would like to work as reporter or in the field of mass communication but I don’t know how and from where to start.
Now we are forming our team of youth of Childlife and starting to try something
to pursue our dream, Nanastation, to produce some documentary for our website,
www.891nanastation.com . Many people may see it as a small thing but we think that it is the great chance for us, kids of the border. I will do my best in this work, as Nanastation team. Thank you many people who take part in supporting and give us a chance directly and indirectly by giving us cheerfulness and looking forward to seeing our website.
Thank you very much, Nam Nanastation.
Jenni, my story.
The sky after raining is very beautiful and it is like terrible thing in my life that
just passed. The clear sky and shining sunlight hitting the mist are very beautiful.
Everything around me is very nice like the time I have now.
My story starts at a very small village of Akha ethnic group, Lishe village on the
mountain of Doi Tung.
At that time, I was just a small girl who never had any chance to get the warm
of love from dad. My dad died a few years ago and then my mom got married with
other man who became my stepfather later. After my mom got married, I had to stay with my stepfather and everything was still good for me. But the worst luck in my life came to me when my mom, who was everything for me after the death of my dad, passed away and I just around 10 years old at the time. This changed everything in my life. Not so long after my mom died, my stepfather, with whom I and my mom relied on for few years, got married again with new woman and at the time my family which I did feel I had when my mom was still alive became step family automatically and I had to stay with them without any choices. In new family I had to work everything instead of my stepmom and at the time I was so young for such a big responsibility of mom of the family. When my mom was still alive, I had free time to play with other kids every day but after that I did not have such a change anymore, a chance to be as kid because I had to do hard work in family. Moreover, I had to take care of 2 boys who came with new stepmom.
My stepfather had to go work outside everyday and came back home after the
sun set. I had to drop my study according to my stepmom and it was more than a
month to take care of everything in household, taking care of younger brother,
working as house keeper for everyone in family. I thought that I would not have a
chance to finish my study in primary school but good luck came to me. I was able to finish my primary school with grade 6. After I finished this level, my stepfather told me that I had to go to work because our family did not have money to support young boys to go to school so I had to leave school and work to help them. I felt very sad. I was just years old at the time and what I could do at this age but I cannot insist their needs. “ Go, if I have to go, they help me a lot” I thought.
Something in my life changed when my neighbors who stayed at the same
village on the mountain asked for help to Childlife to help me because they
sympathize with my fate. Staff from Childlife came to my village for seeking more
information about me and finally they helped me and this was the starting of my newlife and it was new story to struggle for my life.
In Childlife I got supported to study in junior high school and other good
opportunities I never have during staying with my family such as training on
leadership, confidence and other development both mentally and physically.
Now I am studying in the 3rd year of the vocational certificate level in
accountant in one vocational school in Maesai. I am very happy now to have such a good chance. Everything I get such as education opportunity, training and other is from the help of Childlife. I want to thank Childlife and Kru Ngaow of giving me a new life and thank to everyone who help children in Childlife. Because of the help of you all and of Childlfie, my life has changed to the good one.
Thank you,
Jenni, Nanastation team.
