Generous Kunal facing fund crunch to run home for lesser fortunate children
Nisha Chettri
Kalimpong,6th June
People raised their
brows when a young lad of 24 from Lapsi dara, East main road set his desire of
acquiring a Royal Enfield aside for 10 children from Malbazar on November 2013.
Kunal Ghatanay was at his cousin’s place (Othlabari, Malbazar) for a night before
meeting the children. As narrated he met the children next morning while he was
preparing to leave his cousin’s house.
The children who have
now become Ghatanay’s part of extended family were then playing against the
road in tattered clothes and in sinking slippers that incompletely touched the
earth. Recalling the moment he said, ‘I asked them if ‘that day’ was a holiday
for them and that’s when one of the kids said that they don’t go to school,
their reasons touched my heart.’
Speaking to the
journalist at his residence, Kunal today spoke about his childhood which is
bitter than what the children of these days face, ‘I spent my schooldays
wearing a thumb protruding shoe, I don’t want these children to face the same’
said Kunal while his eyes turned moist.
Kunal’s nudge did
change the lives of 10 children but now what the generous man encounters is the
lack of fund which makes him bite his nails, he can neither send them back to
their condition nor can do something that elevates his financial condition.
He now has 13 children
with him in his small, recently built house, 10 are from Othlabari, 2 from Kalimpong
and 1 from Rangpoo. The children seemed noiseless, peaceful and well-nurtured, when
asked ‘are we meeting again?’ They collectively said, ‘Yes, tomorrow.’
His father is an
electrician of Lapsi Dara, in the contrary Kunal is an unemployed youth who doesn’t
have a proper financial source to look after the family, the weight of pressure
is now loaded with those 13 children. He later said that he somehow learnt the
welding work and now assists his father in electrical break downs.
Incidentally, Kunal’s
family sometimes faces a massive shortage of money and that’s when the young
generous lad takes an alternative of collecting the neighbor’s ration cards and
gets rice from the shop which is measured in a larger quantity when accumulated
from many cards.
Kunal has also been
meeting people for sponsorships but he was indirectly shooed by asking the
children in return, ‘they were ready to help but they asked me to hand over my
children to them’ said Ghatanay without clarifying whom he was mentioning, when
asked he said that didn’t want to name them.
In the end of the
conversation, he ruefully appealed the people to help the children grow with
smiles on their faces, ‘they are not just my property, it would be very charitable
if everyone would come together to make earth a better place to live, help
these children to build their future’ said Kunal before signing off.
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