Venilla - Moonlight for her girls

Venilla

I met her looking for work one of those days in 2016. I had moved back to an old location and was looking for someone to help me. She just walked into my space with her young daughter and asked for a job. She gladly knew some Tamil, and I could manage it ok. Something in me told me she was good, and I employed her. She had a story to share of a not-so-happy marriage and things that she only had to manage at home. She slipped into our household duties, and she loved our son. She wanted to go the extra mile to make things for him, and what else should I ask for? She became part of the family.

A few months later, she comes home and has stories of an abusive husband. I, in my revolting avatar, asked her to leave him and start on her own. She was confused as she thought she didn't have an identity without him, and that wasn't something I could help her develop in a day. These struggles continued, and yet another day, she said she is carrying her second child, and she didn't know what to do with the fetus. I was in no position to give advice, and lo behold, in no time, her husband just left home, and she started not to provide him with the money that he needed for her indulgences. He never used to stick to one job, nor was he providing for the family. It took a while to make up her mind to sever from him and find an identity of her own. She did this and started living for her two beautiful daughters and herself.

She is a Tamil girl who settled in old Bangalore with her family and moved to newer parts of Bangalore late after marriage. Now, she lives and tends to her daughters here in Sundaranagar, and we do our small part in tending to her aspirations for her daughters. Sreenika and Samantha respected studying in 1st and 7th standard.

Pranav started Hundred4Future to first fund Samantha's education; we wanted her to get into the habit of saving for education and be independent in providing for that. As in her life, everything else takes over, and the funds for this are never kept aside at the beginning of the academic year. And gladly, she is clear that she needs her daughters to graduate, although she has only done 8th standard. But she has a sharp mind, learns stuff very easily, and would be a great manager if she had studied further.