Hope for Masha

How is the life of a young girl with a mental retardation from a prosperous family

Almost every morning Masha wakes up, gathers and goes to the metro on college. It is thick, so people are usually at the rush hour on a train on her, many people are pushing, many people are pushing. Masha does not really understand how to get up, so as not to interfere with passengers, and begins to worry very much because of this-from this her hands tremble and her movements become even more awkward, and the discontent and attention of passengers are even more obvious.

Masha is my sister, she is 21 years old, she has a medium -sized mental retardation, and now she is going to study at the third professional college since she graduated from a school for children with development problems. Every finished year in college is a chance for a person who can live a full life Twist this quote every finished year in college is a chance for a person who can live a full life, learn some small business and be able to work.

But in fact, Masha goes to college so as not to sit on four days for a day. Because the public institution does not take into account that such people need more sensitive attention, patience and a special approach. In some educational institutions, the state sponsor several budget places and allows people to study there with development problems. But neither the atmosphere around, nor the teaching approach take into account the presence of a special person among them, therefore, when Masha comes to study in college, she certainly hears insults and laughter in her direction.

When Masha studied at a college for a flower grower, once she accidentally drank poison from insects, which stood in a bottle near the teapot, where students make tea and snack themselves during the break. Just because no one thought that a person is studying in college, who, having seen a bottle of fantas with colored fluid inside in the kitchen, would want to check what is inside.

The entire social and social institution that should help my sister learn to be and live among ordinary people is replaced by our grandmother Nina.

When Masha comes home in tears, because someone again laughed about her weight and trembling hands, grandmother Nina hugs her and explains that in any society there will always be non-helping rude people who say offensive things. Grandmother Nina tells Masha about weakness and strength, about good, about anger, about the duties of a person and his rights.

In our family, several children are not customary to allocate Masha among the rest of the brothers and sisters. Yes, it has its own characteristics, and its development does not correspond to the development of an ordinary person at this age. Yes, we patiently talk with her many times about the same thing (Masha often hangs on any one question or anxiety), we often speak with her words that we would speak with a nine-year-old child, but in everyday life she helps the same as the rest. If you need to help cooking, Masha cuts the salad, if we are traveling and walking uphill uphill, walking around the neighborhood, Masha also goes along with everyone.

Until 20 years old, Masha did not think that she had some problems, that she was different from others, because she was asked in the family and she was given as much as the rest of the children.

This allowed her to learn to have her own desires by the age of 20 and know that she has the right to choose. Learn to go to the other end of the city to study and spend time among people of different circles and upbringing, to finally learn to look beautiful and get married.

She recently asked her grandmother: "And my hands are shaking, and I'm not as smart as some people, because I was born like that?"

Now imagine that Masha was born to other parents who have no other children, she never had any grandmother Nina, and the family lives in Irkutsk and does not know what to do with such a child. Mom, of course, does not work and cares for her child herself, trying to teach him something, is afraid to walk on the site among ordinary children-there is no talk about going to work, and who will take care of the child. All life. In childhood, in youth, in adulthood - this child has nowhere to go Twist this quote in childhood, in youth, in adulthood - this child has nowhere to go. And then the parents die, and this Masha enters the neuropsychiatric boarding school for adults, because there is no such system that would help Masha live among ordinary people. It is easier for the state to collect without analysis of all people with features and settle them in such a nursing home. There they quickly lose all those skills that they have, no matter how many of them. Just because they stuff with medicines there, they don’t teach anything and in general - skills are only harmful. Quite quickly, people stop cope with elementary actions.

But it is in Irkutsk that they solve this problem. Since 2008, 11 people with developmental features have been in the basement. Learn to play, sew, process a tree. This means that parents have 11 children have the opportunity to work, and 11 children have the opportunity to leave home.

It turned out so well that dozens of other parents who have not left the house for many years and did not withdraw their adults anywhere, also wanted to go to the Hope Center. But there was little space in the basement.

And then the Center for Assistance to the Disabled "Nadezhda" rented a plot in 2012 and began to build a house,
A two -story building with workshop: woodworking, weaving, sewing, felting, candle, crop production, printing. They wanted to make a gym, rooms for various therapeutic programs, a medical office, a library and an office.

Grants and parental donations managed to build a foundation and walls. But it is not possible to complete the house in any way. There is no roof, floor, windows and doors. To put the roof, the “hope” lacks 200 910 rubles, and to put an aluminum warm floor (which is convenient, fire resistant and suitable for entering people in strollers), you need 409 thousand rubles.

My sister Masha loves to write letters by e -mail. Sometimes in the evening, returning after a hard day, full of senseless worries and disappointments, I open the mail and read:

“Hello Sonyshka. How are you? I'm sad, I wilted like a rose. I go to the Kodrous to a psychoon, she is not a teacher, it just works for a child to earn the Dengi Stepoba. Her name is Elena Petrovna. I love you very much and miss you.

The foam flew from my lips, loneliness has rushed off into eternity. Write good verses?
Do not be sad and write the answer, but you will not write.
Mashuna "

I want Masha to finally stop going to these colleges, in which no one wants to teach her anything, but simply closes her budget places.

I want Masha to come to where she would be helped and taught her to live in this ordinary life, where we ourselves do not always cope well and cry if someone laughs at us.

And I really want our grandmother Nina to be not afraid that someday Masha would be left without her.
In the Center “Hope” they are already able to teach people, only roof, floor and windows are not enough.

Do not be sad and write the answer, but you will not write. Mashun