
TOWARDS A PERFECT WORLD
Sasikala is a beautiful 15 year-old studying 10th grade. She is excited about her dreams for the future. And why not? She knows for sure that they will come true soon.
But life did not always seem so hopeful.
Sasikala was a healthy little girl until a sudden bout of fever struck her when she was about one year old. That body-twisting fever, polio, maimed her for life, affecting her spine from the back down to her legs.
Rasu, her father, a fisherman, did all that he could to help the child. “Doctors gave up hope. I then dug a straight pit and kept her buried up to her shoulders for eight hours for one month, but saw no improvement” he laments.