Girls who left "HOME" Part 2

Name: Tharsiga Vijayalingam
Age:16 years old
Her dad is missing since 2009 in the war. Her mum is with her younger sis and younger brother. Her uncle is captured now still. He aunt died in the last attacks. Her mother and sister experienced severe burn due to the attacks also. During the war, she and her family had shifted from refuge camp to refuge camp for one whole year before being stationed at a particular camp.

This is where Dr.B.Anankumar had spoken to her and understood her difficulties and her interest in studying. So he decided to bring her back to PVC. But it didn’t last too long as she was forced out by the government officials like the other two. Going through the same journey as them, she still wants to go back to PVC as the hostel she is in now provides the same food, the teachers are not dedicated, and there is no drinking water facility. She is in the same hostel as Illineero is staying in.

Name: Subaranjini Murugaiya
Age: 16 years old
Mum died in war. Her dad is in their hometown with 1 elder brother and 1 younger sister. Her 2 younger brothers are in Puloly Children’s Village.

She was in camp for one year also. In the beginning, food was cooked for them but later on they were rationed out once a month only and were asked to cook their own food. She never went out of the camp for the entire year that she was there.

Her aunt was the one who got her out of the there upon knowing about PVC “home”, the home for kids who have been affected by war and tsunami. She loved her stay in PVC, as she received the motherly love that she lost when her mum died and the care that she lost while she was living a miserable life in camp. At PVC, the court didn’t permit the children to go out and learn computer lessons or attend any other classes so it only made it difficult for the kids as they had to find their own tuition teachers.

Government officials came, dragged her out, she fainted and went to hospital for a short period before getting transferred to another hostel with her younger sister. At that hostel, there was no food, no new clothes given and not even any medication when her sister needed them as she fell ill. They were locked up in a room together with the many others who got transferred there from PVC. The didn’t even have a pair of slippers to walk with.

She told her dad of what was going on in the hostel, her dad spoke to the court to relieve her from the hostel, just like the many other parents who had seen the hostel. After visiting the courts, the 26 children were driven to Killinochi and dropped off there at 12am midnight. They brought nothing with them and everyone was living in various directions. They were stared at by passersby as they woke up on the roadside unclean and messed up.

When she finally reached home, she realized she can’t stay home alone and study while the men are out working because it is dangerous. She told Dr.B.Anandkumar and he arranged for her to stay in the current hostel and study. Her younger sister is still not studying and is staying with her aunt back in hometown.