PASIGHAT, Sep 9: Following the recent closure of orphanage/school under the banner of Friendship Foundation Academy due to improper functioning as reported, a number of children have been rendered homeless and helpless.

As per Dy. Director ICDS, Pasighat, Ponung Ering Angu, some of the children come from broken homes and few from homes where they have to witness daily violence. These children in fact didn’t want to go home and had opted to stay back in the said orphanage in spite of the meagre meal they were being served and under difficult circumstances they were being kept.  “Imagine a child going through all that and yet preferring to stay at the orphanage. It speaks volume of what they must have gone through and maybe still going through.  Maybe some of them need to be moved to safer places to live a normal life”, she added.

As per concern department, steps have been taken to rehabilitate the children and further steps are still being taken to help them get back on their feet and bring them into the fold of normal life. The government is extending all the help they can to the children, but that is not enough.  Even though most of the children are being admitted to government schools yet some of them do not have access to that. In such cases, it is the need of the hour that we come to the rescue of these less privileged children. Total of 22 children have been taken in by Oju Welfare children’s home, Naharlagun and around 6 children are still in need of care, the official added.

In this hour of need, it is highly appreciable that the owners of KP Vivekananda boarding school at Pasighat Tokbom Perme and M.Taipodia Perme have extended helping hands and taken in a child into their fold from the said orphanage with free education and boarding.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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