Pinky strives to improve her parenting skills

25-year-old Pinky is the mother of three girls, ages 6, 3 and 1. Pinky, her husband and her daughters live in a joined family with her in-laws, and scrape by on Pinky’s husband’s earnings as a keymaker and Pinky’s income from selling old clothes on the side of the road. In Pinky’s community, superstition, misinformation and detrimental cultural practices (such as female feticide) abound and can negatively influence the way parents raise their children. Pinky, having been forced to drop out of school as only a young child, is determined that her daughters will grow up differently than she did. To this end, she is a proactive parent, and seeks out any opportunity to educate herself and her children, which is why she joined the AIC Mother-Baby class recently. She and her 1-year-old daughter attend the class every other week with other mothers and babies aged 12-24 months. At these classes, Pinky and the other mothers learn about dietary needs of their children, baby growth and development, birth spacing and family planning, communication and relationships within the family, good parenting practices and many other topics through structured discussions led by local professionals, specialists and health workers.  Although she is not a new mother, Pinky still finds that she is learning a great deal through the classes, and wishes that she had had the benefit of this information when her first two daughters were babies as well.

Your donations, Tom (x 2), Thomas and Ray and Leal, will ensure that Pinky is able to give her children a head start in life. Thank you.