{"id":24612,"date":"2015-06-08T15:02:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T22:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?p=24612"},"modified":"2023-05-25T10:11:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T17:11:31","slug":"former-sponsored-child-passes-love-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/sponsorship-news-stories\/former-sponsored-child-passes-love-learning","title":{"rendered":"Former sponsored child passes on his love of learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>He finds solace among books and literature, devouring pages and volumes to nourish his insatiable mind. When he&rsquo;s not reading or studying, Lalramsan Halam is preparing lessons for his eager charges, schoolchildren in his northern <a href=\"\/our-work\/country-profiles\/india\">India<\/a> homeland. The 25-year-old teacher and former sponsored child declares it&rsquo;s his &ldquo;responsibility to invest in the future generation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Lalramsan, the first in his village to graduate from college, credits his academic accomplishments to his World Vision sponsor, who delivered hope, encouragement, and a future.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I had my sponsor support me in my journey to acquire knowledge that comes from being educated, so now it&rsquo;s my responsibility to invest in the future generation of my village so that the cycle of giving continues,&rdquo; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is a great feeling to know when someone cares for you and wants you to grow and develop. If it wasn&rsquo;t for the kind support of my sponsor, I wouldn&rsquo;t be able to achieve my goals. The support alone was enough to motivate me.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Lalramsan remembers his family&rsquo;s daily toil in the forests of North Tripura, a remote part of India, isolated from the rest of the country by mountains and bounded by Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>He remembers being cut off from the possibilities of going to school, gaining an education, and securing his future.<\/p>\n<p>Each day brought with it a new set of battles, ones Lalramsan&rsquo;s family found difficult to fight.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We were one of the poorest families in our village,&rdquo; says Lalramsan. &ldquo;My father couldn&rsquo;t afford to buy us books. But I desired to study, so I begged children to give me their used books.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24620\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24620 size-full lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/email\/met3\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"In India, a boy from one of the poorest families in his village became the first college graduate &mdash; an accomplishment he credits to his World Vision sponsor.\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W165-0065-022_652369-editx800.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W165-0065-022_652369-editx800-640x410.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W165-0065-022_652369-editx800-200x128.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W165-0065-022_652369-editx800-360x230.jpeg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W165-0065-022_652369-editx800.jpeg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lalramsan&rsquo;s determination and thirst for learning made him the first person from his village to graduate college. Now, he&rsquo;s giving back to other young students as a primary school teacher.&nbsp;(&copy;2015 World Vision\/photo by Annila Harris)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>Hills of hardship, pangs of hunger<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>With no steady source of income and many little mouths to feed, finding a means to survive became the biggest challenge confronting his father, Sumtielngul Halam.<\/p>\n<p>Sumtielngul never went to school and never learned to read and write. The family suffered, as the uneducated are marginalized here.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Woodcutting was all that I could do,&rdquo; says Sumtielngul. &ldquo;Every day, when I went in search of wood, I kept telling myself that if I didn&rsquo;t get money today then my children would not get food. I had no steady source of income, and that made it difficult for me to provide for my family&rsquo;s basic needs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pullquote pullquote--full\">Without education, life is darkness, and there were times when I thought I would not be able to come out of that darkness.<cite class=\"attribution\">&mdash;Lalramsan Halam<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<p>Constructing a solid and sturdy house was also beyond their reach, confining them to a perilous hut in disrepair. Rather than being a safe haven for the family, the house became the place they feared the most.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our home was just a thatched hut,&rdquo; Lalramsan says. &ldquo;During rainy season, water leaked from the roof, and it used to fall on us when we were sleeping. We didn&rsquo;t feel safe living in the house at all. During strong storms, we had to abandon our home and take refuge somewhere else, fearing that the roof would collapse on us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Lalramsan&rsquo;s educational aspirations also took a beating as his father struggled to cope with the expenses of sending him to school.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Without education, life is darkness, and there were times when I thought I would not be able to come out of that darkness,&rdquo; Lalramsan says.<\/p>\n<p>Child sponsors helped release his family and others in the village from the grip of poverty by providing clean water, education, and economic opportunities and training.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was overjoyed when I got educational material from World Vision,&rdquo; Lalramsan says. He was sponsored from 2007 to 2014.&nbsp;&ldquo;I still remember what I used to get &mdash; fresh set of books along with lots of stationery and a bicycle to go to school.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Read and ride he did.<\/p>\n<h2>Hope for tomorrow<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24614\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24614 size-full lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/email\/met3\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"In India, a sponsored child became the first college graduate &mdash; an accomplishment he credits to his World Vision sponsor.\" width=\"400\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W165-0065-007_652341-editx400.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W165-0065-007_652341-editx400-200x156.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W165-0065-007_652341-editx400-308x240.jpeg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/09\/W165-0065-007_652341-editx400.jpeg\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumtielngul Halam, Lalramsan&rsquo;s father, taps one of the rubber trees on the family&rsquo;s plantation. (&copy;2015 World Vision\/photo by Annila Harris)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As part of World Vision&rsquo;s economic empowerment assistance program, his family received a piggery&nbsp;as well as saplings to begin a rubber plantation, which has now become the main source of income for the family.<\/p>\n<p>His father was among 2,000 farmers in North Tripura&rsquo;s Ambassa district to develop new skills, including organic farming and pest management.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am so happy for my aged father,&rdquo; says Lalramsan. &ldquo;He no longer has to struggle cutting wood, which is a lot of hard labor. He sold the pigs, and the money he got was invested in our education. We were able to buy things that we couldn&rsquo;t afford earlier.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Now, Sumtielngul focuses on taking care of the rubber plantation. The training he received to manage the plantation helps maintain the farm and increase the yields each year. He is earning a steady income, which has restored his dignity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Once we are able to tap all trees, we will get at least US$583 a month. That money will assist my sisters to complete their schooling,&rdquo; Lalramsan says.<\/p>\n<p>With the provision of shelter material provided by World Vision, Lalramsan and his family now have a safe and secure house &mdash; and one that can withstand storms.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In India, a former sponsored child was the first in his village to graduate from college \u2014 an accomplishment he credits to his World Vision 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