Saroo lost it very strangely. Before he was 5 years old, he got on an empty train and ran more than 1,500 kilometers from the railway station in his hometown to Kolkata. Then he actually wandered the streets by himself for several weeks, super survivability, luck, and more sadness! Until a well-meaning young man took him to the police station. Sent to an orphanage again and met Mr.Sood from the Indian Sponsorship and Adoption Society.
This Australian couple, who could have children themselves, chose not to. His wife Su'er said: "There are enough people in the world, and having children can't change anything. If we can help those children who are suffering and give them a chance, it may be meaningful." The couple has no age or gender background requirements for the child to be adopted, just a "child" who needs a home.
They found little Saroo. Saroo came to Australia with a piece of chocolate he couldn't bear to finish on the plane in his hand. With loving parents. Grow up in a safe environment, get an education, go to college, and live the life you want.
Saroo was able to find his hometown not only with the help of Google Maps, but also thanks to the help of Indian classmates in Australia and local Indians on Facebook.
Compared with the help of relatives and friends and the inheritance of blood, the help of distant strangers and the integration of different cultures and races are more exciting and moving. And it is the non-profit organization that turns these distant strangers into relatives. Mrs. Sood, who helped Saroo, has worked in the industry for 37 years, helping around 2,000 Indian children find new parents.
I have met some people who do charity work. At the time it felt as if they were from another planet, dealing with unseen groups on a daily basis. Now I know that those invisible groups are actually the following people: they have encountered difficulties, have no relatives, no friends, no government help, and nothing. For example, a 5-year-old child living on the street. Public welfare is to help people in need, trying their best to save those who encounter difficulties from hell.
Saroo's biological mother has four children. When she was pregnant with her youngest child, Shekila, her father found a second wife. It is legal for a Muslim to marry a second wife. But after the father married the second wife, he neither returned to the first home nor supported the life of the first family. So the whole family has always hated their dad very much. My mother does the work of moving stones and raises four children by herself. Life is very hard. Several children often do not have enough to eat. The eldest brother Kallu and the second brother Guddu went out to work every day (actually, various odd jobs, begging and petty theft) when they were very young to help their mother with the family life. Little Saroo's job is to look after his sister Shekila at home.
One night Guddu took little Saroo out to work. The two never came back. My mother was not worried at first, because it is normal for Guddu to leave for a few days and not come home, and my mother often disappears for a few days to go to work. A week later, the mother became worried and asked the elder brother Kallu to look for them, but they could not be found anywhere. A few weeks later, a police officer came to their home. The mother was more worried that something had happened to Saroo, but Guddu's body was found under the wheel a few kilometers away from the station. He fell from a moving train. What happened before Guddu's accident is unknown. He may have an accident on the same night that his brother was lost, and he never came back to find his brother; another possibility is that he found that his brother was missing and an accident occurred while looking for his brother. In addition, Guddu runs around on the train all the year round, why he fell off the train is also an unsolved mystery.
After the loss of two children, the mother could afford the school fees for the remaining two, so both Kallu and Shekila went to school. When Saroo retrieved them, Kallu was a factory manager and a part-time school bus driver. He was married with two children. Shekila is a teacher and is married with two children. They all moved out of the place where they lived as children, and only the mother remained there. She was afraid of moving, and Saroo came back one day and couldn't find her.
Shekila received a call from her mother saying Saroo was back, she couldn't believe it was real, thought it was a liar or a joke. But when she saw Saroo, she immediately knew that it was her brother. She said that when she saw her brother, she felt time travel, and she remembered the time together when she was a child. In fact, when Saroo lost, Shekila was only two years old.
Saroo needs an interpreter to communicate when he is with his Indian family. He has forgotten the language of his hometown, and none of his family speaks English.
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