martes, 1 de abril de 2008

Happy Home????

Two mondays ago I wnt to Happy home as usual. After finish in the school, I went in the bus and then walking with the the kids until I reach Happy home. When I arrived, Brian was waiting for me in the door. AS the last monday I wqas teaching some of them to greet, David, came outside and when I asked him how he was, he answered me: You are fine, and you?
But a big change was coming. Brian started to speak, he was nervous as I could realize because of his voice. He is from Seattle, and for me his accent is really dificult. Firs he said that I was not working more there, I though, no.. he must said that he is not working more here, then he started to speak about of sexual abuse acussations, i though that maybe Bishwua had accused him of sexual abuse of some children. And the conversation was like that, with my ,for sure, stranges answers until the moment that I realised that I was the one being blamed. I was shock. For Brian there was no boudt since the children were the onces that had reported something against me.
When I realized that was imposible to speak with Brian, that just wanted to blame me I went out. First I went to the other orphanage, to have tea with the children, but then I went to the school to tell that to Sangeeta and Himal. Sangeeta called to the office of Happy HOme, and Bishwua's wife, because Bishwua was out of kathmandu, said that was true. Children have reported that I had abused of some of them.
I was really worried. I knew that I was innocent, but I didn't know at first how to react, how to face such a acussation in a foreign country. That night I didn't sleep too much.
The next I went to speak with Rajendra and ask him for help, and he says that yes. Here, an aclaration is necessary. Rajendra always thought about me as a sick or ill, or mad person. He was scared of me taking the kids out of the orphanage becuase it give me the chance to take one of the girls to the jungle and abuse of her. And the same with the way I wear. All that was reported by Sangeeta. And in fact, Rajednra wanted to talk with the girls that had blamed me and after thay told him that I had done something with them, he really weanted to speak with me. And here its the difference. Sangeeta and Himal don't really care about the childre, for them all is Biswhua related, hi is the one that had tried to put me in trouble. They don't believe that acussation from the beginning.
I spent the next days in the school, helping to make the exams and really worried. I can't not avoid think that maybe something can't go wrong, and Himal and Sangeeta start to suspect and them be alone. From he first ight I know that I can use pshicologist to show that thwe kids are lying, but the idea of all going wrong is imposible to avoid.
That day, Himal explained me his theory, that's really interesting. He open my eyes to a new reality, to the world of some volunteers. Usually volunteers come here to Nepal to earn money. How? They start to work and in the anme of the organisation they collect moeny between their friends or whatever, and when they give that money to the owner of the orphanage, they recieve automatically 25%. With that money they can live in Nepal and have a really nice holidays. Sangeeta and Himal don't see this as a real problem, but for me is something really b ad. Another things is that all orphanage owners are money seekers, they just want the money, they don't really care about the job of the volunteer or even the volunteer, just about the money that he or she brings. So maybe, when Bishwua realized that I was not going to leave money, he is just not interested in my job. Another theory is that maybe something wrong is going on and they are trying to avoid me goign there and finding out it.
At the end, on Thursday a met Biswhua. In this meeting, Bishwua told me that the kids have reported sexual abuse from my side, but he is not really worried, he thinks that I am a good person, he whishs me all the best and for that reasson as long as I am not coming back to the orphanage I don't have problems. I should not come back to teh orphanage because of the health of the kids. Himal thought that maybe they were going to ask me for money to leave me in peace, but maybe because of the Rajendrass and Sangeeta's help, they became scared, one actitude that I felt in the meeting. I was recording everything and Bishwua actitute was " as long as you are not coming back, that is good for th kids, and for you, you don't have problems, that is good for you".
Of course it's really strange. If kids have really said that, and I am the owner of the orphange, I will try to find out the true, something that Biswhua didn't look like to want. I don't know if I will be able to find out what happend, but I will try. I hope have the help of some people from UNICEF and polie officers. Now that I'm free I could just forgot about it, but somethins is going on with that children.

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