A memorable day for Satthvam. A day of beautiful experiences with people whom i never knew. Enrolled my house help lady's daughter into an english medium School into the 3rd Standard and Satthvam will be funding her further studies too as much as she wishes to study.
It was not planned at all.. it just happened.. One of those sad days for the lady when she opened up about her elder daughter still being in her home town and being ill treated by her relative.. All of 8 years herself..the girl was made to take care of their little daughter who was some 4 yrs old.. she was supposed to feed the little one khana while no one would bother feeding or bathing or combing the older ones hair.. was made to do odd jobs in the house… With all this the girl thankfully studied well and passed her 2nd grade with good marks in kannada medium but…
That was enough for me to take a decision on her and instructed my lady to get the TC from the school in her native and bring her here..
So proud to have shared room space for 10 minutes with this amazing lady! That was not all.. Grapevine was that our girl will be taken for the 2nd grade since she may not cope up.. But since sheholds a lot of potential we wanted to give it a try requesting and the Ma’m was too kind for us.. She did not take more than one minute to decide to give her a year’s time to prove her acclimatisation and told us, your girl has this years time.. where in she must study well and prove with better marks in every test.. hopefully her performance should improve after every test.. my lady has arranged for tuitions for both her daughters since she is not educated enough and wants her daughters to do well in life..
First my debit card gets invalid and it strikes me that there was a courier fromthe bank which i had ignored thinking its just another credit card the bank is trying to dump on you.. happened to be the new card and the code and all.. what a jolt.. and i begin looking all over the house but no sign of it..even my cheque book was an old one .. was not even sure if it was valid since all transactions are online..and so i hardly get any routine couriers...quickly called the bank helpdesk and an angel only replied..my god i literally begged her not to keep the phone down and help me as i had neither the time nor the energy to repeat the story to another staff again... i had given my word to the girl..a lot of arrangement from hometown had hpapened co ordinating for the TC and all..and i could not let a delay happen! . and told her the purpose..
Payal the Customer service person on call was another god send! you know how it is, your brain stops working and it did not strike me that i could check about the validity of the cheque ! she calmed me down and what she told me i will always be thankful to her for that! said ' please take a deep breath mam, i am with you, dont worry even if this call takes an hour i will ensure your problem is solved to the best ability...and quickly asked me about the cheque book until then i had forgotten about its existance.. quickly pulled it out and she asked me to read the code written on the leaf.. and said its very much usable..and blocked the previous new lost card..and issued a fresh one that will reach me in a week.. thanked her profusely for she too is a big part of todays acheivement in the little girls life!
After many follow ups from the govt school in mandya..finally after schools re-opened..got the TC and today enrolled my girl into Reddy school ..Many good souls seem to cross my path every day! One such being the Reddy School Principal Mrs. Meenakshi.. What a humble lady she is…my god.. she was so understanding when we mentioned our intent to strictly get her into english medium.. her younger sister is already in the same school doing UKG and she’s being a bright child.. Hopefully the kids should do well.. Ma’m went on to narrate how she herself was from Kannada medium and studied amidst a lot of struggles in her childhood and at this later part of her 50s she actually did her graduation and post graduation and all the necessary qualifications needed for the position she holds..
Have tears of joy when I share this post.. and it was meant to be so.. Again , Gods hand..at every path of our lives.. Feeling blessed..
