FROM THE HINTERLANDS OF IDUKKI
“She has no colorful dreams for her future. Just wants to push her days as an ordinary woman. Probably, she is a student suffers more to reach the school at time. I am afraid, not less than an hour journey through a deserted road covered with woods and thorns may restrict her from early morning classes. She reaches her house after seven many days; her mother says. The hardships and struggles she undertakes should be praised’.
Sruthi set out from a place where the Venniyani Mala situated. It was around a decade ago that terrible incident happened in her small village. Someone of us may remember Victor George, a chief photographer of the Malayala Manorama who died on July 9, 2001 while attempting to cover a landslide that had claimed three lives in Cheppukulam. Victor was washed away in that afternoon when the torrential rains unleashed a second landslide. Sruthi’s family was one among the victims of the landslide where an acre of land lashed away in that eruption.
Her house situated besides a picturesque stream flows with a unique rhythm and exuberance. It feels like ‘inside a jungle’. Walking for a long time, I reached her very weak and old small house. Her parents work as rubber tappers in a nearby estate. She also has a shy brother who studies with her in the same school. Sruthi is a second year humanities batch student opted Certificate Course in Junior Rubber Technician (JRT) with an ambition to get a job in rubber park, Perumbavoor.
Despite she wants to continue her study, her immediate priority is to find a job. “Being she is only an average in studies and showing slight weak in learning, it is better for her to choose a job’ her teacher says. Sruthi’s father is a heart patient and needs to spend thousands of rupees for medicines and treatment. Amidst ill-health he works in the field to find earnings. Considering the poor health of her husband, Bindu, her mother needs to take care of her husband and to be a leading role in the family. While discussing about Sruthi, her mother actually pleaded for a job for her daughter, being their current income is not sufficient for anything. At utmost despair, she requested me to find some job for her child even in Kochi.
Surthi is very thankful to ASAP course. Though she didn’t elaborate on the program, she found very happy with her experiences with ASAP and aspires for a suitable job. I was not in a position to speak more, being it was too late. I pushed off from that shadow of a deep valley after wishing all the lucks to our ASAPian.
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“She has no colorful dreams for her future. Just wants to push her days as an ordinary woman. Probably, she is a student suffers more to reach the school at time. I am afraid, not less than an hour journey through a deserted road covered with woods and thorns may restrict her from early morning classes. She reaches her house after seven many days; her mother says. The hardships and struggles she undertakes should be praised’.
Sruthi set out from a place where the Venniyani Mala situated. It was around a decade ago that terrible incident happened in her small village. Someone of us may remember Victor George, a chief photographer of the Malayala Manorama who died on July 9, 2001 while attempting to cover a landslide that had claimed three lives in Cheppukulam. Victor was washed away in that afternoon when the torrential rains unleashed a second landslide. Sruthi’s family was one among the victims of the landslide where an acre of land lashed away in that eruption.
Her house situated besides a picturesque stream flows with a unique rhythm and exuberance. It feels like ‘inside a jungle’. Walking for a long time, I reached her very weak and old small house. Her parents work as rubber tappers in a nearby estate. She also has a shy brother who studies with her in the same school. Sruthi is a second year humanities batch student opted Certificate Course in Junior Rubber Technician (JRT) with an ambition to get a job in rubber park, Perumbavoor.
Despite she wants to continue her study, her immediate priority is to find a job. “Being she is only an average in studies and showing slight weak in learning, it is better for her to choose a job’ her teacher says. Sruthi’s father is a heart patient and needs to spend thousands of rupees for medicines and treatment. Amidst ill-health he works in the field to find earnings. Considering the poor health of her husband, Bindu, her mother needs to take care of her husband and to be a leading role in the family. While discussing about Sruthi, her mother actually pleaded for a job for her daughter, being their current income is not sufficient for anything. At utmost despair, she requested me to find some job for her child even in Kochi.
Surthi is very thankful to ASAP course. Though she didn’t elaborate on the program, she found very happy with her experiences with ASAP and aspires for a suitable job. I was not in a position to speak more, being it was too late. I pushed off from that shadow of a deep valley after wishing all the lucks to our ASAPian.
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