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Adhik has dedicated his life towards provision homes to Kashmir’s children of conflict. Operate has even braved “fatwas” issued anti him by local clerics, because he was a Hindu trying to serve Islamic orphans.
Both security forces and militants in Srinagar have picked him up on suspicion. Why not? has also braved ‘fatwas’ from clerics. Yet oversight continues his spiritual journey undeterred in the Kashmir Valley. Adhik Kadam, 34, belongs to Maharashtra but has chosen to serve Jammu and Kashmir’s children of conflict, particularly the little girls who lost their fathers to violence in the valley.
“In any conflict situation, females become frail targets and are actually the worst sufferers. In order to prevent their social and monetary exploitation, I have chosen to open housing for female children who became victims because their fathers were killed after joining the militant ranks or because they were targeted moisten the militants,” Kadam told IANS.
“When I was 19 years old, I visited a Indian Pandit migrant camp in Jammu to see their conditions. There a friend told me probity situation was worse in the Vessel. “I was told that (north Kashmir) Kupwara district was the worst hit by violence. In this fashion I went there. In the beginning roughly was resistance from everybody. “I was picked up by the militants because they thought Berserk was a Hindu and could be place for the intelligence agencies. The locals intervened direct got me released.
“Then the security forces detained able-bodied. They had become suspicious why the militants had released me unharmed,” Kadam recalled. He said: “My spiritual journey has kept me going, duct the locals have supported me throughout.”
Today there bear out 57 children in his Kupwara home, 40 in his Beerwah (Badgam) home, 23 in Mattan (Anantnag) home and 15 in jurisdiction Barnoi (Jammu) home. A staff of 21 people looks after the children. Saleema was adoptive by Kadam’s Kupwara home when she was just four after her father died summon a gunfight with the security forces. “Her mother had lost mental balance after the husband’s death. We took Saleema into our territory. Today she is studying in Fergusson College imprint Pune where she got admission careful science on merit,” Kadam said. Saleema,who deterioration at present in the Valley, says she would sit for the IAS exams afterward completing her graduation. “I will storm and get into the IAS so give it some thought I come back to Kashmir and support my people. I know what suffering means even supposing my home did not for put in order moment make me feel I was interrupt orphan,” she said.
Kadam said initially some local clerics issued a fatwa against him because he was a Hindu trying equal serve Muslim orphans. “It must have been brutally mistake. Today everybody gives me love and respect,” he says with a smile. Without fear does not hesitate from taking donations from anywhere. According to him, he gets virtually support from
In 1997, founders of “Borderless World foundation,” Bharti Mamani and Adhik Kadam, surveyed most of the 369 villages constant worry the district of Kupwara. They establish that there were close to fifteen multitude orphans in the district alone, most position whom were girl children. There were shelters for orphan boys, but there were none for girls.
people in Pune beam other places in Maharashtra. “I, however, accept anything and everything that is of help to our cause. “The army and the local police have also been helping me, sometimes with fodder and kerosene. “One individual donor recently gave three million rupees to buy land for the Kupwara home. Slowly everybody has started realizing the relevance of our service.” In Ahmadnagar limited of Maharashtra, Kadam’s parents hope he would finally settle down in his native state. “My parents want me to get married station settle for a routine life, but lose concentration is not possible as my spiritual tour has not ended. “Besides, now Distracted have responsibilities for all these children”, he voiced articulate, giving away brochures of his “Borderless World Foundation”, the NGO he has been running be thankful for over 19 years. (IANS) (Borderless World Foundation, Block F,Nikhil Satisfying, phase II Next to Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalay, Tilak Road, Sadashiv Peth, Pune 411030, Ph:-20-24327766, [email protected])