Saroo’s journey to find Home was a true lesson of perseverance. Even in his search process, he was quasi-sure he would achieve The horrors he’d seen, but instead, he continued to hope and dreamed always ofĪ better future.
Hope/Optimism: Since he wasĪ child, Saroo has been optimistic he could have been depressed because of all The love, protection, and sacrifice of his mother and brothers. Inspirational and teaches us a number of lessons: Love: Money is notĮverything, the bonds between Saroo and his family, were unbreakable thanks to Home from the train station, and even the smell of some meals prepared by his Years old, the names and appearances of some places in his hometown, the way Very small details from his childhood, such as some events when he was three Memory I was astonished by his capacity of remembering, after twenty years, But what really impressed me was his very strong His autonomy and his sense of responsibility made himįind food and survive hunger. His remarkable intuition and prudence helped him avoidĭangerous situations. Sarooįor example had a strong personality and a fighting spirit that enabled him toįace hard tests. On their own most of the time develop more skills than other children. Games, and what schools are the best for their education, a large number ofĬhildren around the world are struggling to find something to eat, something to
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How to choose their clothes, how to provide them useful activities and fun So today, he benefits from legal status in Finland, allowing him to excel in his studies at an international high school in Helsinki and to imagine a future fully capitalizing on his considerable talents.Ī coda recounts devastating news from home that sends him into a downward spiral and offers a powerful reminder of the fragility of the refugee situation, even for the luckiest and most resilient.Spending their time on learning how to feed their children in a healthy way, He is also, he tells us more than once, exceptionally lucky: unlike many, he meets along the way, he has happened upon people able and willing to help at just the right moments. Over the arc of his story, there emerges a strong sense of him as an uncommonly bright, charismatic, articulate, and resilient young man. In spare and limpid prose, Jawid brings alive one version of the refugee plight, offering the perspective of a young adolescent boy on his own. But very few of them have been in a position to convey this experience to a larger public, and most of us find it very hard to imagine. In many ways, his experience is all too common: thousands have undertaken substantially the same passage in recent years. By turns terrified and hopeful, at the mercy of ruthless operators but also inspired by the bravery and kindness of strangers, he lucidly recounts the experience of pushing his physical and mental limits to keep going on this solo journey across central Asia to Iran, then to Turkey, on to Greece, and finally to join an older brother in Finland. This is a compelling first-person account of Jawid Danish’s multi-year and often harrowing odyssey as an “unaccompanied minor” from Afghanistan seeking refuge in Europe.Īfter the death of both his parents (one to violence, the other to illness), his older brothers encourage him to leave his native village in Afghanistan at age of twelve for a safer life in Europe.
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