Let's love them
She was sitting on the footpath in Karwanbazar. I asked her name, "Shirin Akter," she answered. She was not more than eight years old. I enquired about her parents and she said her father had left them and married another woman. Her mother sells vegetables at Karwanbazar. Shirin is third among her five siblings. She lives in a slum in Begunbari and works in a garment factory. Whatever insignificant wage she gets, she gives it to her mother.
If we can't help them in any way, can't we just smile at them, treat them nicely while we speak to them?
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