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Members of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Garden convent are pictured with boys of Navjeevan, a care home for children rescued from railway platforms in Khandwa, central India. Sr Ambika Pillai is third from the right in the back row. Sr Ambika Pillai is seated at a table answering questions from children who are busily creating decorations out of colored paper.
Wearing a loose black skirt and a shawl swung around her neck, the nun gets up from the table and walks with the help of a crutch and a prosthetic leg.Sr Pillai, a founding member of Navjeevan, had played a key role in developing the children's home since its inception in 2003, helping rebuild the shattered lives of runaway children until Jan. 4, 2017, a day that changed her life forever.
The surgeon in the hospital told her 80% of her leg would be amputated, prompting her tears at the realization that she would be disabled for life. She smiled as she welcomed visitors,"despite crying within," she recalled. The nun and her team teach the children art, craft, basic computers and etiquette in addition to helping them with their daily school classes.
"But I can help them and their families through counseling," she emphasized, which mainly focuses on reuniting broken families, drug addiction among men, and women's various issues. "She never gives us the feeling that she has some problem, but does everything together with us and encourages us," Sr Toppo told GSR.
Govinda Jugunu, a former resident of Navjeevan, recalled how the nun brought him to the center from a railway platform as a child. He said they still do not know how he landed at the station: Either his parents abandoned him there or he ran away from home. "Ours was a traditional Hindu family that offered special prayers for deities," she said."But whenever we performed those prayers, my mother would behave as if possessed."
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