Delegates spend a day at home for the destitute

When the Programme Officer,Commonwealth,Layne Anthony Robinson,picked up one-year-old Pinky from her cradle at the Mother Teresa Centre.

When the Programme Officer,Commonwealth,Layne Anthony Robinson,picked up one-year-old Pinky from her cradle at the Mother Teresa Centre (MTC),Chandigarh,the sister in-charge told him that she could not see. Robinson and other young delegates of the Commonwealth,who were on a visit to the centre,were shocked to hear it.

Pinky was adopted by the centre when she was a month old. We took her to the PGI for examination of her eyes,but doctors said nothing could be done, said Sister Aneliese as the delegates keenly listened to her.

Robinson and all other delegates could not resist playing with Pinky and other babies at the centre.

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There are 20 abandoned children at the MTC and it is home to them. In case of baby girls,we take care till they get married. And if they are boys,we look after them till they get a job, Aneliese told the delegates.

Another room of the centre has physically challenged children being looked after by the missionary.

I am deeply moved by what we saw. The centre is doing an excellent job, said Marcellus John,a Commonwealth delegate from St Lucia.

Nearly 40 Commonwealth youth representatives,who have assembled here for the Commonwealth Youth Leader Conference 2010,had divided themselves into four groups to see various community services launched by social groups in and around Chandigarh .

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Catching the residents by surprise,the delegates served lunch to each one of them. Serving the disabled gives you great satisfaction. The centre is home to aged,destitute,the diseased,mentally ill,disabled and those abandoned by their families. They are doing a great job and it is really a tough task, said Sri Lankan delegate Jayendre Frenando.

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