During the month of November Indians everywhere celebrated Diwali. Here in Australia we went along with the local Tamil community to a Diwali concert, where Sabila performed with Abinaya Dance Academy in two dances. After the performances we all enjoyed some fabulous food.
In India our family also joined in celebrations with their neighbours. Jagan has let us know that Sunama, Babu and the children enjoyed celebrating Diwali with others in their village. Jagan took some sweets and firecrackers for the children, and Vidya sent them some new clothes she had sent from us. Vidya plans on visiting the family in December so we look forward to receiving some more news and updated photos.
Our family's story...
- Julia Rollings
- Australia
- After our oldest two girls were born to me, we adopted a baby boy from Korea, a two year old boy with special needs from Taiwan, and two older boys (brothers) from India. In 1998 we welcomed our youngest children, a brother and sister from India, into our large Australian family. In 2006 the director of our youngest children's orphanage was arrested, so we launched a private investigation to verify our children's history. We discovered they had not been willingly relinquished by both Indian parents, as we had been assured and legal documents attested. They had been taken from their mother while she slept and sold by their father. In March 2007 I travelled to India to reunite our son Akil, aged 13 and daughter Sabila, aged 12, with their first mother. Sunama and her second husband Babu lived in a small windowless room less than 5 X 3 metres, with their five young children. They did not have a tap or toilet. The family didn't speak or understand English but their welcome was warm and loving.We spent four days living with them. Their family is now part of our family.
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