A Baby Swing

“The only Place that ever left me was feeling empty and full at the same time”.

It’s a children’s day and we thought of doing something for ourselves and for our soul.

I was working in a Hyderabad as a software consultant and was living in Ameerpeth with my Nine Maharastrian Girls friends gang. We had decided to visit an Orphanage after some Googling I found one and that was “Shishu Vihar”.

We had called the Management and requested that we will visit just for half n hr and let us know if we can bring something for the children, they said we cannot bring outside food or anything else, so finally we had decided to buy box of cookies for each child and the number of children was 110.

We had bought the box of cookies and drive to the way to Shishu Vihar, outside the orphanage i saw the baby swing and it says the whole story.

 As soon as we entered the orphanage the manager greeted us and told us to wait in a hall till then children will come, won’t believe they were so disciplined they came in line one by one greeted us and took their box of cookies and went to their Activity room in a queue maintained.

We found very caring staff –members in shishu vihar there are almost 20 staff members and one of them was Marathi from Nagpur, she heard me talking in Marathi and came to me and told that yesterday only 2 days infant someone kept in a baby swing hanging outside the door of orphanage now I got the meaning of keeping an empty swing outside the doors of orphanage.

A pic with a kind lady

All the children are from age 2 days to 13 Years, Most of them of less than six months old, were said to be in a good health and caring hands,all of them have been taken care, examined, disciplined and educated Shishu Vihar.

 

After playing with children and spending some time with them we left the place with tears in our eyes and thoughts on our mind.

While leaving the place everyone was so quiet and probably thinking of the lives we are living and we are questioning our mom dad on those small little things and I was thinking about these people whom they are going to question on the life they got ?

It’s been 3 Years for this incident and I am still wondering why and how that mother left her 2 days baby infront of orphanage ? if she couldn’t afford one more life why she would have given the birth to that baby or it was a reason that baby infant was a girl ? what was it ?