ISAAC AAC Awareness Month
 
 


2008 MANY STORIES ONE VOICE ONLINE COLLECTION

 

Chandan Das, Age 19, India

I am a 19 year old boy with CP (Spastic Athetoid).  I try to communicate with others, verbally but use my communication board if they do not understand me. I love writing stories and poems. At home my mother writes for me and at the Centre, my teachers. I thought about the theme of this story at home. At the Centre I used my alphabet board and my teachers wrote it for me. 



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Bhola’s Life

Even if Bhola’s family is small it has its share of joys and sorrows just like any other family. Bhola is an 18 year old boy, staying with his parents in a small hut. During the monsoons, water entered their house. There was no fan or light in their house. In the evening he studied by the light of a candle.

Despite so much pain and so much sorrow his life did not stop. He went on the path of light from that of darkness.

One day Bhola’s father died. His mother was blind. Suddenly Bhola had to carry family responsibilities on his unformed shoulders. All of a sudden he met a man named Raja. He was a very good man. Hearing Bhola’s sad life story his heart also ached. Raja asked Bhola, “Will you work with me?” Hearing this Bhola was taken aback.

“I am not very educated. Will I be able to do the work?”

“You do not need to be very educated for this job. It is a work in a shop in Kolkata. In Kolkata you could continue your studies too alongside your job,” replied Raja.

Bhola now works and also studies. With his first pay he took his blind mother to an eye specialist. Bhola’s mother is a lot better now. Bhola’s happiness too knows no limit.

Now Bhola wants to do something for the orphans. 

Let me tell you whether Bhola could achieve his dreams or not in the next story.