‘I
tell the moon you are not beautiful like my mother. I tell the rose you are not
sweet like my mother….’ This song painfully comes out of the voice of a
six-year-old affectionate child, Jannatul Islam Mawa.
Jannatul
is not like any other child. Her life is strange. She has her mother, but is
still deprived of her care. Since she was two years old, her father has been
both her mother and father. She shares all her emotions- joys and pains, huffs
and egos- with her father. When other kids spend this time in playing and
learning alphabets, most of her during the day is spent in the street.
Her
father is a driver of battery-run Easy Bike. For having no one to take care of
her in safety, Jannatul Mawa spends the whole day with her father in an Easy
Bike. She takes food three times every day at hotel. And she sleeps with her
father in one corner of the garage where Easy Bike battery is given charge. She
does things including taking bath and answering the call of nature at the
garage owner’s house.
Two
and half years after the birth of Jannatul Mawa, her mother leaves her. For the
sake of riches, leaving her father’s hand, Moriom settled with someone else.
Since then, she has grown up roaming with her father in his Easy Bike, which is
a barrier for her physical and mental development.
The
reporter talked with them at the garage at the Sankarpur Chatal junction in
Jashore city in the morning last Friday. While the reporter was talking to her
father, Jannatul was singing that song on her own sitting beside her father.
Muradur
Rahman, father of Jannatul Mawa, said his family background was not that bad. About
nine years ago, he fell in love with Mawa’s mother and married her. For getting
married against his family, Muradur Rahman had to leave his ancestral home. At
that time, he used to do embroidery work on cloth. Afterwards, for decreasing
the demand of embroidery work, Muradur fell into a financial crisis. Then Mawa
was two and half years old. He took up a salesperson’s job for products like notebook,
pen and brush.
At
that time, his wife eloped with another person for the greed of money. Muradur
did not have anyone to look after the child when he went out to work. When he
took his child with him at work, staff of the brush company used to get annoyed
with him. For this reason, he left that job and now he is driving Easy Bike.
And he is forced to keep his adorable child with him.
Muradur
said, “I do not want to keep my daughter in such an environment. My kid catches
cold and cough. But what will I do? I do not have any other option. So, I am
forced to keep my beloved child with me all the time.”
Thinking
about the future of the child, Muradur does not think about getting married for
the second time. The child is growing up day by day. Now, Muradur’s only concern
is how to provide the child with a clean environment in which she can grow up
well.
Shamimur
Rahman, the owner of the garage, said, “I felt sad seeing the painful life of
both the father and daughter. So, I have allowed both of them to stay in my
garage.”
But
if it goes on like this, the child’s natural development will be hampered, said
Abul Kalam Azad Litu, the doctor of Jessore’s 250-seat hospital.
Source-
http://www.kalerkantho.com/online/miscellaneous/2019/02/11/736118?fbclid=IwAR1FJmH796OJTqHbmro69kQ9ZFiZw_O1svGVcC1oitOUXkucdzxfmplXyx4
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