The village Children of Killankulam
In the South of India there is a small village named Killankulam. If you would
like to find it on a map, you will not succeed. We call it the forgotten
village. You have to know where to turn right on the main road because they do
not have any sign when you enter the village. There are many villages like this
over all India. They are running themselves and nothing has changed over the
last 100 years. The houses are made of clay with one or two rooms only. On the
backside there is an open fireplace where they prepare there simple daily meal.
From one single water tank in the middle of the village, the families have to
carry their daily need water. In the houses there is no washroom and the whole
village has no access to canalization.
This village is my home for the next 3 months. I am supporting a project build
up by an Australian … and women from the Netherlands. The project started during
the last part of 2003, a project to support the village children of Killankulam
in their personnel growing process. “We don’t talk about the often named so
called cup of rice. We are talking about a daily solid vegetarian based healthy
food” said Sri Param the founder of the project. It is also the knowledge for
the children, that healthy food will support them in their growing for their own
life. Supporting these children is part of the spiritual work of Sri Param, who
is a well known Tantra Teacher and Sound Healer. If they don’t get any special
education and support their future life is be a laborer on the fields or in the
quarry nearby for Euro 0,50.- a day. The education in the local school is not
sufficient to be qualified for any higher school or university. In English, they
learn by heart English poems without understanding the content. Far away from
any conversation skills needed for daily life or on a university. In this
project, the village children from Killankulam are always talking English when
they want to communicate with the founders of the project. The founders
regularly also tries to keep an overview of the daily school activities of the
children. This should later help them to be qualified for a higher school grade
or university.
The whole project is financed by the founders money and some donations from
Holland.
In the average 5-10 children are always here to get daily healthy warm meal. 6
of them also stay overnight in their own room with modern amenities such as
western toilet and shower. They are also responsible for cleaning the room. They
have daily social contact with their parents. They also have an overview of the
children’s daily shower and the use of a toothbrush. They also provide
employment to many of the local people from the village. They get work to a more
faire condition as normally. To be us much independent from buying food the
project produces their own vegetables on biological base and have a few milk
cows for the milk production. The children are taking care about the vegetables
and have the success of consummating their own labor work.
If you enjoyed the story, you will hear more about the children of Killankulam.
Read also the background story of Devanayagi
If you would like to know more about this project contact us. please write to
SriDurga@ifc-net.org They are
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