Care for the girl child

Finally, not able to bear the hunger any longer, she ran out of the hut. At the other end of the street, she saw her mother pleading with a couple in a car. The car drove off and her mother went to another person to beg.

The child couldn’t bear to see her mother begging. She decided to leave her so-called home forever. She started walking in the opposite direction. She walked on the streets for some hours. Finally she was so famished that she could not even walk. She found herself next to a garbage heap. She desperately shifted through the pile for something to eat. She found some pieces of what looked like hard bread. She started eating the stuff but it had a peculiar taste. She wanted to throw it away, but she was too hungry to resist it. Suddenly she felt a pang of pain. She collapsed on the road too weak to get up. She looked at the passers by and cried out for help. But on seeing her everyone turned their faces away and hurriedly walked on

.The child was now frothing at the mouth. Her eyes rested on the wall across. On it was a huge poster bearing the words: “Care for the girl child.’The child smiled meekly and closed her eyes forever.