Children born in jail, find home away from home

LAHORE: For children who are born to mothers serving time in prison, the SOS Children Village is doing wonders.

The not-for-profit organization works like a boarding school for these children, where they live in houses run by a designated guardian the children call their mother, and go to school in the morning.

The arrangement allows these children to live in a free environment, away from company of hardened criminals serving time in prison. And the children like this arrangement.

“I don’t like Jail”, a young boy says.

“I like it here. In jail they would let us out in the morning and lock us in the evening,” said another child.

"But sometimes I miss my mother," says another girl.

Children born to mothers in jail spend a life imprisoned, away from the freedom that they should have been their right. They usually attend a school inside the prison for a few hours a day.

However, that is changing and SOS Children’s Village is now providing hope for these little victims.

Deprived of their natural parents, children are placed in an environment which is as close as possible to a natural home. SOS Children's Villages meet this need by providing them with loving care, security, higher education and job-training.

The organization provides these children a family home where they are sent to school, fed, and brought up in an environment that will help them to learn and grow.

These homes are perhaps the only chance for these victimized children to lead a life - away from the ugly and harsh realities of the life in prison.