Cantonment Center 10/4
Today at the center was a free day. During the morning we played for a long time with the kids. They love just playing and being free to be a kid, not having to work the trains or scavenge for items they can sell to the recyclers.
They thought it so funny to see us adults jumping rope..or atleast trying to! R and his coworkers are great with the children. They have taught the children several songs in Hindi that we teach our kids in Sunday School. It is so cool to hear these song in another language. R is following a teaching curriculum for bible and discipleship.
We had the opprotunity to go in small groups to see the station & where the kids live. In the after noon Robert, Anne and I were guided to the station by 2 of the oldest girls at the center. The younger of the two took my hand and held on to it the whole time we walked. The first stop we made was at a group of people sitting on the sidewalk. The older Jumni, our guide kept pointing and we finally worked out that it was Suraja's home. Next she took us to a tree with a woman and baby sitting under the tree. We we understood that this was her mother and where she lived. We saw nothing that even looked like the crude shelters we have become familiar with, there were a few drainage pipes to the left... The girls then took us through another section of the area around the station. We saw where many of the other children live and met a few "mam's". It was very similar to the RN slum area. The kids were happy we came to visit.
Until later...
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