Only Did What a Foster Father Should Do : A Day in a Social Worker’s Life

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Kaajol grew up in my foster family but now she lives with her mother 10 km far from here. She is still supported by our charity. She used to be a student in a neighborhood school. Now, she goes to another school near their village. She will be writing her Higher Secondary Examinations this month. But somehow a government support she should have got last year has not entered her account in the bank. She came to me to for help. I carried her on my motorcycle pillion to her previous school and met the teacher- in-charge. We were directed to meet the bank manager. We rode to the bank. The bank told that Kaajol needed to submit her photo to complete the process. She didn’t have her photo at that moment. I took her to a photo studio nearby and got her instant photographs. We rode back to the bank and she submitted her photo. Her part of the work was over. We returned home. She had lunch in our family. She thanked me and went back to her mother in the afternoon. Did I do anything more than I should do as a foster father? That was the minimum demand of my duty. It would have been a crime not to have availed myself for a foster daughter.