"Street children" that hate street ... - Report
They bear the stamp of our own, adults, irresponsibility and bad decisions. They are innocently guilty, those whom we call street children are themselves released to the streets ...
We are in one of the centers of the capital, where street children huddle. The shelter for children is not so big. Most here can accommodate 20 people. And what I see is more like a big family ...
My attention is attracted by a bright boy quietly sitting in the corner. He is just quietly listening to the conversation. I ask about him the head of the center Kamala Agayeva. He is already bulging his eyes. He understands that we are talking about him. He is staring into my eyes, not distracting attention for even a moment.
- His name is Agashirin. But all of us here call him Agasha. There is even a nickname - Sweet ... Once he was brought to our center by police. He remembers how his mother dropped him off the bus and left on one of the benches in the park. He was only 2 years old. But he says that he well remembers that day.
The little child's eyes fill with tears, while he still does not depart from me. Kamala Agayeva, interrupting his speech, picks him up. After many attempts we still manage to soothe Agasha.
Agasha remembers everything - even how his mother left him and went away. But when he speaks of the woman that left him, his face shows stiffness not inherent of the children of his age. He is no longer waiting for her ... When he says these words, his eyes express unreadable celebration clothed in hopelessness. "I do not wait for her! ..."
- Agasha, do you remember your mother?
Silent...
- Would you want your mother to come and get you?
- No.
- Would you not want her to play with you?
- No.
- Would you like to play with me?
- No ...
In his life there is no place for whiny fuss of younger siblings for toys, and complaints to parents. Maybe there was something limke that once...
- Who would you play with if that person came to you?
- With my sister...
- What games did you play with your sister? Do you remember that?
- Yes. We had toy cars. Every day we played with cars.
Kamala Agayeva said that the only person who Agasha would like to see is his sister. He often recalls her ...
The head of the orphanage reported that the majority of children found on the streets do not have any documents, so they can not be placed in orphanages. "There are difficulties. Most are problems with documentation, and some with the definition of age. Sometimes children become part of life of workers in orphanages. For example, as well as Agashirin..."
Kamala Agayeva has worked supervisor of the orphanage since 2007. She has seen many children and faced many destinies. But the fate of little Agashirin became particularly her grief. Loving him like her own child, she can not imagine her life without him.
"They are all my children, regardless of whether they were found in the market, on the road or on the bus. This child has such a mind that even a 40-year-old man does not have. I will not give him to anyone. I am preparing documents. I will give Agashirin my surname..."Thanks to the warm care of the woman who will become his mother, Agashirin will forget much. But it is unlikely he will be able to forget his sister, who waits for him and who shared her toys with him. And the most difficult is just that ...
He also has a dream - to become a police officer, such as the uncle who brought him to the center... Even if he can not explain the reason for this...This dream is not only Agashirin's dream, but also that of his mother. No, we are not talking about the woman who left her child in the street on a rainy day. It is about Kamala Agayeva, who so far, like a mother, gives him moral support, and who will be his real mother after the papework is ready. The mother and the son will save children hand in hand...
Sevinge MammadliANN.Az
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