Helping to Heal

After this incident, the children are in a state of shock — a state of trauma. They seek solitude... Even if they hear a small sound, their mind goes back to the bombing. For those who have lost their friends, they see them in their dreams. That's the state they are in….Even those girls without wounds are in a state of trauma. That's how much this has affected them. It disturbs their sleep...They're in so much tension after the event — they've become reclusive...

The parents are only asking if their kids will come back to the way they were before. They're happy when they hear their children talk. They were scared they wouldn't return to their old state. But we have faith they'll come back.

Their emotional state is that they have a distaste for education. When they've lost so many friends, the kids who used to sit next to them, those memories keep coming back, they're just repeated in their mind, so they fear to go to school. They can't concentrate or study, they have a distaste to go to school...

Economically they need a lot of help. If you look at people in this area, most of them are hard off. Some parents expected their children to study and then look after their family. They definitely need great economic assistance...

-Sankavi Pratheshan, 29 years