Hope can be found in the most unlikely places.
In a Delhi slum there is a Training Centre for Slum Children run by a group called The Creative Thinkers Forum. Their aim is to give children from the slum the motivation to look beyond what life in the slum can offer them to the various opportunities that society can offer.
In the centre they teach the children about working with modern technology as well as introducing them to music and the arts. They want the children to be able to break out of the slums.
The centre serves over 300 children including the beautiful young girls in the picture in this post.
I had the privilege of visiting the centre a couple of days before heading home. Together with a few other tema members we met about 150 of the kids from the centre. We were then taken for a walk through the slum to see the apalling living conditions. There was a large canal running through the centre of the slum flushing industrial waste and human waste through the area. The smell was stomach churning. The young man showing us through the slum proudly pointed to his home which was just a couple of metres away from the canal.
From this unbelievable setting comes hope through the training centre. Unfortunately, they are only reaching a small percentage of those in the area. We were told that around 100 000 children live in that slum alone. We were also told that there are around 2 500 slums in the Delhi area.
I hope and pray that more people like the Creative Thinkers Forum will take the challenge of helping young people in such situations. I also hope that those of us who can afford to help out won’t shrink back from the task.
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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