The Dumping Site of Disabled Children
By Shavkat
@Shavkat (141905)
Philippines
February 15, 2017 7:44pm CST
During the time of my medical mission stunts in Central Asia in 2011, I was able to transfer my soft skills to local medical staff. It is a bittersweet experience to work with different nationalities. The main goal is to improve the conditions of children with disability or impairment. The most challenging part is to learn Russian language but I may say, I had nailed learning it.
The duration of my stay in the settlement area is for a year. I had all the best time in exploring the country and helping the people with disability (PWDs) at the same time. It was a great opportunity to live and be with the local people.
At the nearly end of my medical mission, the international that I am working with requested to visit a facility that caters children with disabilities or impairments. At first, I was so excited. But then, it had changed to feeling frustrated. As I stepped into the isolated facility, I had witnessed all types of children disabilities or impairments. The saddest part, they were been abandoned by their biological parents.
I can’t imagine how do they do this. I had known that it was a dumping site for children with disability. The hidden secret of the country is to push away their children from the house due to their medical condition. For them, children with disabilities or impairments are unlucky.
Now, I am in my country and still hunting me the scene of being in that facility. It had come to realize in appreciating the simple things in life and to see some parents who patiently takes good care of their special children in the country.
Image Credit: Shavkat
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
16 Feb 17
It happens in my country too. My daughter saw it when Tomás had to go to his chemotheraphy. There were children who never had a visit from their parents.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
17 Feb 17
@marguicha That's too bad for these children to experience. I hope they can still be happy with the staff of the hospital.
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@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
16 Feb 17
It's better if they are treated fairly and accepted in the society not isolated and abandoned. Yes they are not lucky when I see children like that I remembered how lucky I am to be normal
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@averygirl72 (38848)
• Philippines
16 Feb 17
@Shavkat We don't have that same facility here? What country is that? It's really bad to just dump them and separate them from their families
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
17 Feb 17
@averygirl72 I am sorry. I can't disclose the name of the country. I am also here in the Philippines. We definitely don't have this kind of facility. That's the reason I was so surprised that it does exist in that country.
@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
16 Feb 17
It is, my friend. The young boy on the right side of the picture was not disabled. He has just had an ankle injury and the mother secured a health certificate of disability from a doctor. And eventually, he was forced to stay in the facility.
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@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
16 Feb 17
Sometimes life is unfair. Look at those children that needed more the love and caring of their own parents but they just dump their because of what they believe as unlucky.
Maybe this is one reason I'm not working in hospitals or health care because I'm too emotionallemotionally affected. This one reason why I considered the workers here as heroeheroes.
These children are still lucky because there are people who give care and affection though they are not blood related.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
16 Feb 17
Where I previously lived, my next door neighbor had adopted a Korean boy with a lame leg. He had to wear a brace. They adopted him when he was nine. His father in Korea had abandoned him at the train station -- said he was going to the bathroom and never returned. It was because he was disabled. He never got over that abandonment, and he took out his unhappiness by bullying all the neighborhood children who were smaller than he was. Eventually, he started molesting his adopted sister and foster sisters and a whole family was turned upside down. Abandonment leaves emotional scars on a child forever.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
17 Feb 17
@Shavkat no one realized what was happening until a foster daughter reported he was making moves on her when the parents were at a soccer game with some of the younger children. By this time the son was about 17. He was removed from the home and put into juvenile detention. He probably got some counseling there.
@vickyrose (2236)
• Cooma, Australia
17 Feb 17
That's very sad indeed. If you survive such, you are strong and resilient. all the best.
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@aninditasen (18198)
• Raurkela, India
16 Feb 17
Children with disability have some God-given quality which their parents should recognise and encourage. The worst impaired should be looked after by their parents who can be assisted by the government of that nation if they are not economically sound.
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@aninditasen (18198)
• Raurkela, India
17 Feb 17
@Shavkat So, what do you think of doing with these disabled children.
@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
16 Feb 17
I an understand handling such children is a big responsibility but dumping them is not acceptable
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
17 Feb 17
@amitkokiladitya I guess it is. However, culture is too strong to be demolished in that country.
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
17 Feb 17
@Shavkat but it does need a lot of courage
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