Sania's Two Chicken

On my street, there lived a family who are construction workers. Both mother and father are constructing a building by living in a tiny temporary shed with an asbestos sheet roof. They have two children a boy named Mohammed and a girl named Sania. Most of their chores, such as cooking, washing dishes and clothes, are done on the roadside with the help of water from the building they construct. I stay on the second floor next to the building they construct and it's my time pass to stand on my balcony and watch them completing their chores. Occasionally, I smile at those children and that's the only communication I have with them. 

Sania is a 14-year-old girl and Mohammed is a 12-year-old boy. Somehow, I developed a strong liking for Sania. Her brother is a bully and he keeps bullying other kids and animals on the street and so I don't like his typical don-like character to fight his inferior feeling of poverty. Sania is someone who wants to raise above her reality and want to change the status and fate of her family. At this small age, the dignity and values that girl has truly put me in astonishment. She maintains utmost cleanliness. I have never seen her dress dirty, though they have to do most of their chores literally on the road. Everyday morning, when her mom braids her hair, she uses a plastic sheet to sit on so that her dress is clean. Indeed, poverty is prevalent and unavoidable in India. But, every poor family has a person who dreams beyond their limitations and fight so hard to achieve those dreams. Sania is one such promising kid and she puts all her effort not to take excuse on her poverty to be driven into darkness like her brother. 

Sania got two chicken as a gift from her uncle. Usually, these color chicken are sold for very less price like toys for children to play and most of the times they get crushed and killed or get caught by stray cats and dogs. The challenge here is they already live in a tinier space with pinned old sarees as door and it's truly hard for them to accommodate any pet. Again, Sania doesn't want to give up on them and she believes that she can protect them. In a way, when people on the street help them with clothes and food, they commented that these chickens won't survive. The paradox here is Sania herself depends a lot on others for her basic necessities, she has a strong hope that she can provide food, shelter and protection to those chicken. I am a huge cheerleader for Sania because only love and big heart to share what you have are enough to bring up those chicks. 

Sania takes care of those chicken so sincerely saving them from stray cats and dogs everyday. When she protects and loves living beings unconditionally, it gives the value and belief that she is here on the earth to save and comfort other living beings and not to use them for her own benefits. Indeed, everyone is curious, whether she protects them from every predator to enjoy them as food. They have been growing healthily and strongly on the street along with couple of stray dogs, few stray cats, and many rats, squirrels and birds. Along with her as a neighbor, not only me, many other families feed them and protect them too. So far, they are healthy and Sania is not letting her parents to kill them for food. I feel that I am privileged to live with numerous kinds of people from diverse cultures and languages. India is all about extremities, we all have the exceptional sense of democratic freedom and so we hurt each other with our differences and judgements; however, equally people care and share with big hearts when it comes to a child's hope and faith!