Today I will continue with my stories of the children & today I will tell you about Suresh;
Suresh is a fine looking young man of 13 years. He is a very smart boy & is doing very well at school. He is also very good on the drum that he plays at worship & prayer times, and has living here at the Hospice for 4 years now.
Suresh is another one who has a bit of a sad story. Again he contracted HIV from his mother at birth. His mother is still alive but his father died 7 years ago.
How Suresh came to be here at the Hospice began when his mother got remarried a few years ago. The mother of the man that suresh's mother married did not like that her son has not had any children of his own so in order for him to receive an inheritance his step father had to basically 'get rid' of Suresh.
I kind of understand the reasoning behind this although I don't agree with it in any form whatsoever. I think the cold hard reasoning behind this is that the step grandmother wants to keep any properties within the family & not pass onto a non blood relative- namely Suresh. Also I can imagine quite reasonably she wants the family line to continue but I'm not sure how that would be facilitated by making Suresh 'go away'. Also as Suresh's mother is HIV positive, although possible, I'm not sure that a continuos family line is actually something that's all that realistic. But then some people have a very strange & illogical way (at least in my opinion) of seeing the world & how to go about doing things.
Nevertheless I think these events have worked out in favour of Suresh. His family are from a very, very poor village & there are no schools there so this boy's very clever mind would have been wasted & completely uneducated. Life there for him would have been a complete dead end.
Here he has a good education with things to challenge him & has the opportunity to make something of his life. He is hoping to become a Pastor one day, something that I think will be easily achievable for him if he chooses to stay on that path. And although he doesn't have his mother, which is sad, he has a much bigger adoptive family here at the Hospice who will always be there for him.
Stuart :) x x x
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