By Cathy Clifton | Communications Director
Sunita is one of the displaced children who came to us last December. She lost her home and her family in the earthquakes of April 2015, after which she went to live in a refugee camp. Both of these situations are tragic, but through it all, she kept up her good spirits - and she was one of the lucky ones, because anti-trafficking groups (with help from child advocacy organizations like Ama Ghar) created Child Safe Places in the refugee camps to protect children from potential predators and traffickers.
At last she received her papers from the government's Social Welfare Council and Sunita was allowed to come to live with us and join the Ama Ghar family. She is such a sweet-natured girl that she fit in immediately, and she was given a few months of adjustment time before she was enrolled in school, which included learning knitting skills from our house mother Uma Auntie and forging bonds with the other Ama Ghar children.
Once she went to school she persevered and was making great progress scholastically in addition to making lots of new friends. And then, at the end of June, another disaster struck - Sunita was in her classroom at Pashpanjuli School at the end of June, during a huge monsoon, when suddenly the mountain above the school gave way and the resulting mud and rock slide, carrying boulders, cement and debris, slammed into the classroom. Sunita's Ama Ghar sister Anjana was killed and Sunita was among the 24 children severely injured.
She gave us quite a scare, as she suffered head and chest injuries. Sunita was in intensive care for three days and made what our Ama Ghar pediatrician agreed was a miraculous recovery. She was moved back into the regular ward for a few days where doctors could monitor her lungs, and now she and her 4 injured brothers and sisters are all at home.
Your generosity has provided us with funds so that we can continue her care. Sunita still has a few memory issues because of the head injuries she suffered, but she is back in school, enjoying her knitting once again, and playing holiday games with her brothers and sisters right now during the Dashain holiday. We are convinced that not only the monetary generosity but the good wishes that friends like you sent her way during the accident are proof that love heals.
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