{"id":163,"date":"2003-12-31T09:52:11","date_gmt":"2003-12-31T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2003\/12\/31\/healing-the-orphans-of-gujarats-pogr"},"modified":"2003-12-31T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2003-12-31T13:52:11","slug":"healing-the-orphans-of-gujarats-pogroms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2003\/12\/31\/healing-the-orphans-of-gujarats-pogroms\/","title":{"rendered":"Healing the Orphans of Gujarat’s Pogroms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zubair Ahmed of BBC speaks to orphans<\/A> of the Gujarat pogroms, describing their ambitions, their education, and the deep psychological scars that persist.  The children are currently enrolled at a special school where they can continue their education while also undergo rehabilitation:<\/FONT><\/P>
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The organisers of the school, run by the non-governmental organisation the Royal Education Society, say it is important to bring stability back to these lives. <\/FONT><\/P>
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Rehana Undel Begum and her staff have been looking after these 121 boys and girls for more than a year. <\/FONT><\/P>
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She says she treats them like her own children. <\/FONT><\/P>
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“In the beginning they were missing their parents. Especially they missed their mothers. I thought I was like a mother to them, so I had to allow them to do what they did with their mothers,” says Rehana.
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Zubair Ahmed of BBC speaks to orphans of the Gujarat pogroms, describing their ambitions, their education, and the deep psychological scars that persist.  The children are currently enrolled at a special school where they can continue their education while also undergo rehabilitation: The organisers of the school, run by the non-governmental organisation the Royal Education […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}