9. mit Julia

Whats your Name?

Julia Paetz

How old are you?

20

Where do you come from?

Bremen

What is your family like?

Ich habe Vater und Mutter, die noch zusammen leben und einen kleinen Bruder und eine Katze.

What is your profession?:

Im Moment leiste ich einen Freiwilligendienst, um mit ganz neuen Erfahrungen und Erkenntnissen in mein Studium zu gehen ( Geo und Englsich auf Lehramt).

Es macht mir Spaß, weil ich mit vielen jungen Leuten arbeite und ihnen Englisch beibringe. Gleichzeitig lebe ich bei einer indischen Familie und lerne das Alltagsleben kennen.

Was hast du in deiner Zeit in Indien schon gelernt?

Puh, Viel! Z.B, Fingern zu essen. Ich hab gelernt mit niedrigeren hygienischen Standards zu leben als in Deutschland: Auf den Toiletten gibt es kein Klopapier, nur fließend Wasser und die Dusche ist immer kalt. Auch übers Unterrichten habe ich sehr viel gelernt.

Indien ist halt ganz anders als Deutschland – Die Kultur im Umgang miteinander ist anders. Mal wieder habe ich eine Lektion darin bekommen mich anzupassen.

Die Menschen mit denen Du zusammen bist, sind das wichtigste. Die machen fast alles aus. Gleichzeitig ist Zuhause, wo deine Familie ist, wo Menschen sind die Du liebst und die dich lieben.

Hier muss man offen sein und die Inder akzeptieren, wie sie sind, sich drauf einlassen und dann eine gute Zeit haben.

Where did Lukas meet Julia?

Julia und ich haben 8 Jahre zusammen am ÖG die Schulbank gedrückt.

Wie es der Zufall so wollte, hat sie ihr 2 Monate dauernder Freiwilligen nach Puddokotai, Tamil Nadu, 100km von meinem Zuhause weg. Ich hatte sie am 20. und 21. August bei ihrer neuen Familie besucht. Zusammen besuchten wir einen Jaintempel., wo dies Bild entstand. Ich poste den Beitrag jetzt erst, weil ich die Aufzeichnungen zwischendurch verschlampt hatte.

Übrigens studiert Julia jetzt fröhlich und schickt mir bei Zeiten Berichte vom Studentenleben.

8. mit Ajith Kumar

Whats your Name?

Ajith Kumar

How old are you?

14

Where do you come from?

Bangalore

What is your family like?

I live with my father and mother and one jounger and one elder sister..

What is your profession?:

I attend Ajit-medium-school 8^th Standard. My school´s Name is St. Marry´s Higher Secondary School-Bangalore.

Why did you help me and where you have that historical knowledge from?

Well, I have been here several times, my mother used to tell me stories about this place. I saw you entering, so I followed you. Because I thought you may need help and I wanted to improve my English.

Where did Lukas meet Ajith Kumar?

I was totally misplaced in Bangalore, when I asked anybody for the way.

After explanation and the obligatory “thank you!” I went my way until I crushed into this huge gate, you can see in the background. It is a ancient gate of Bangalore and at the same time the beginning of a secret entrance to a tunnel-system connecting Bangalore with Mysore. Cause the door was simply left open and his dark atmosphere, due to bad maintenance, attracted me, I went inside. All I saw was incomprehensible to me.

While asking my self what was that, a voice inside my back rose and began to tell me the marvelous story of Mysore Kings digging a secret support-system for Bangalore. Furiously I turned around and there stood the same I had asked for the bus. A little school boy, looking intimidated but with a glance of interest in his eyes at men – Ajith Kumar. His brave and polite way how to achieve his goal – to speak English- has remained as a example for me.

By the way, from an other resource I verified the story of Bangalore tunnel-system.

7. mit Mr. Thambi

 

Whats your Name?

Premananb Thambi

How old are you?

59

Where do you come from?

I come from Kanyakumari. I live in Bangarapet, Karnataka.

What is your family like?

My father and mother got 7 children. My father had served in the army, worked for health and spiritual ministy. And finally became homeopathic doctor who did evangelist activities.

I am the third son of my parents. In 1980 I married for love a lady from Kerala. We arranged it our self. We have three maternal children, one boy and two girls.

My boy works in Delhi for “international animal welfare association”. He has a son. First daughter is also married, has a baby and works for “world vision india”, as a finance officer. Second one works as nurse in hospital. She is married but has no children yet.

Beside that we adopted 5 children in the 1990s. We took them, because they were orphans. We help them in there lives, provided food, education and all that. First girl is married, second girl finished studies in bible collage. Third girl was taken away on own interest by an uncle, after highschool. The fourth and fith study in 10^th supported by PAD in other place.

In the year of 2008 we have taken more children to our home. With the help of local church 24 children live in our home. Most children come from different places around Bangarapet, they are the category of orphans or semi orphans. (Er sagte tasächlich Kategorie)

What is your profession?:

Firstly I am fully involved in this childrens service. I was a teacher, but resigned to give children more input.

In Vembar I mostly facilitate in the financial system and teach life-skill- programs. ( Softskill trainings, die PAD ständig seinen Mitarbeitern gibt.)

Apart I work in food security program with local farmers: I arrange a platform for them. Sometimes I organ people who want to help and teach farmers, e.g. about organic farming. (providing facilties, organization, contact, etc)

(Unerwähnterweise hat er auch noch 2hektar Land die er mit Spenden in eine Modellfarm versucht zu verwandeln)

So what you do everyday with the children?

I do not do anything systematically, because I am not 100% with the children. That is why I would like to hire one or two children who will be fully with the children. And also I want children to do things by them self.

Where did Lukas meet Mr. Thambi?

Mr. Thambi is a college of mine. 3 to 4 times a month he stays at our office for two days. He is the brother of the head of organization and invited me to his own project thins a long time. So after I saw it I decided to make this interview. On the one hand his commitment and on the other the diversity of his work surprised me.