The Wounded Hills !

The birds spotted in our garden in isolated trees during a heavy rain , three days ago,  brought me close to the experience of children who were  displaced from  their home after the landslide in Wayanad, early this week. The birds who are normally in groups, now are alone, looking down cast and silent without bird calls. 

The news of children who have lost some members of their family or a parent or both parents in the landslide is trickling in. They are in different relief camps. A photo of a seven year old boy carrying his brother of 40 days in his arms, was  shocking to watch !

I felt moved and want to be involved in supporting these children and bereft families who lost their children. However it is too ambitious for me to do any practical help physically, as my age restrains me. 

But I thought of many professionals who would be involved in offering therapeutic help to children and adults and accompany them through their recovery journey. 

This blog which was inactive for a while, is a forum I want to use to share thoughts and experiences with children, who experienced post traumatic transition in their lives. Children being in different developmental stages of life till they become teenagers, it is often necessary to have an individualised protocol of promoting child development and healing!

I shall use this forum to share experiences and thoughts on different aspects related to loneliness, bereftness or grief, children of different ages experience. 

The silence in our garden,  which has regular bird calls during the day reminds me of the stress, that birds encounter during the incessant rains. 

Children, displaced from their home, school and their neighbourhood  have enough of stressful experiences. If they have suffered bereavement, it adds to the upheaval. 

I start this series carrying within me a sense of loss myself, because, it is only by being with children during their distressing time, one can be an enabler for their pathfinding!

I hope this forum can be a link with professionals,  who are involved as front line care givers, for promoting child development and healing!

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)