One of the programs Akanksha centers, apart from the lessons of English and mathematics, is the so-called empowerment. That is to teach children to acquire an awareness of their situation and to become independent and responsible. Inside
empowerment there are many things, carried out by social workers to Akanksha, running the various centers in Mumbai. More or less in each center will hold an empowerment session once a week or every 15 days. We talk about hygiene, sex education, drug and alcohol use (widespread problems in the slums), conflict resolution, discrimination (caste, gender, economic), the importance of education, the dignity of all trades honest, but also of wealth and poverty in this new neo-liberal India.
Within this program, an institution for the blind Ragini days ago read a passage that speaks to children in India of contrasts, where extreme poverty and wealth coexist rampant. There are people living on the streets, eat (if they eat) collecting waste and next there are millionaires who live in luxury, give receptions and dinners for thousands of people whose only surpluses would be enough to feed hundreds of people a day, says the song. "Lavish inhuman poverty and riches."
This word is impressed me: ihnuman, inhuman. He'll be back out on my last day in Mumbai, so obvious, overwhelming, unstoppable. There is perhaps a better word to define these inequalities at the edge of cruelty, this lack of humanity.
Humanity on the other hand often read on the faces of the poor, be gentle and not in their rebellion, their eyes full of (too?) Than and compassion. Formerly called her resignation, but now I have a better word: acceptance. Resignation is a Western concept, meaning that it has made us a reason, which has tried to change but not if they have succeeded. It means that you know what is wrong, but it's true and there is nothing to be done. But the Indians do not. There is no question of right or wrong, is not the problem. E 'and so must be accepted.
E 'inhuman squandered the wealth from the richest, absolutely inhuman. But this acceptance of the poorest, I can not seem to accept it.
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