In its june publication, Woman Magazine, Zeta´s Group, Published on its online and offline editions a report about our Association. From here, we want to thank them the work they made and the help given in showing our Project. Here there is a cut from the article, if you wish to read it all, you can do so from this link . |
 Kolkata is a caotic and hot city, with tremendous traffic and buildinds falling apart. The streets are crowded of people living there, acting as kitchens and beds on the concrete. But as you cross Howrah´s bridge over the Hooghly river the city gets even poorer. We enter in the City of Joy, the neighbourghood of beggars and lepers, which Dominique Lapierre made popular with his book. The area of Pilkhana has replaced the slums for the buildings made of brick, but poverty keeps having the main presence. Fakir Bagan´s street, as the rest of the area, wakes up early. The barefoot Ricksaw drivers drive their ricksaws, the women wash the clothes by hand at their one bed family houses´ doors and the dogs search carefully around rubish and gutters on open air. But also some children well combed and smiling with their shining red uniform on their way to school. To Tara School,. When Natalia Pallás, head and heart of this educational Project, arrived into Kolkata, had never imagined that she would create a NGO, Amigos de Tara-bhudist godest and the House name of the film Gone with the Wind, and this school. The one presenting once the kids TV programme Club Disney, when she was 29 years old decided to take some time to listen to her social responsability, her other vocation , a part from her actress vocation.. That time, became now already 5 years, Natalia says. One thing brought about the other. She was working as a volunteer in a school directed by the Misionary Sisters of Kolkata, they decided to close the school of the neighbourhood. The children had no other place to go, as none of their families were able to pay for the books and the public school taxes. Natalia knew that the next step was to open a new school. She met an indian social worker, Alice John, and together made posible the imposible. Natalia has faced the indian burocracy, the monsoon rains that flood the school every year ,and over all , seeing so much suffering- at the begining, I could not stop crying-. With a very strong determination, her own savings and the patience that Developed through her Bhudist practices, Natalia kept ahead.- Education is crucial in these children´s future-, states the young girl, with her big deep eyes and sweetnest that cannot hide her solidity and strenght. |
