Bitter post

(Bitter post incoming)

I really don't like that I work in an Orphanage. I love to be there, it's very fun to interact with the kids and the feeling of helping them is amazing, but me actually being there is a bad idea. These kids, some of them not even having relatives to visit during the holidays, got their entire life in this place and it's run by a company based on profit. Even if the company wouldn't consist with this, none of the volunteers I've met here had to take more then a couple of days to independently understand this.

The kids, beside those who have some distant relatives, only have one person at all that always would be there for them, constantly as long as they stay at the Orphanage. The Orphanage Mother, Shila, who been working there since it started and who takes care and comforts them twenty four hours a day. She just got fired because the manager got a complaint. The manager didn't even look in to it deeper for some possible confusion or misunderstanding but just fired her on the spot.

The complaints had come a few weeks ago, so Shila did get those weeks to prepare to lose the job. Problem is that it's her entire life she lost, since she lived here, without any other place to go.

The manager have been around during the day, forcing us to smile and act like we didn't knew about what was going on. The new Orphanage Mother arrived as well and she doesn't speak a single word of English as it seems. How new volunteers would be able to adjust to the work puzzles me since I've learned everything from Shila.

Guess I'm just angry, but the fact is that every volunteer here love Shila, all the kids love her and no one around could find a single error she makes in her work. I want to help her, but not sure how I can. I want to complain to the company but not sure how I can, without making anything worse. I just want it all to change, and we've been many talking about this for a long time. We're all bitter, but we have no solution. It'll continue until someone does something.