The blind boy in Huoi Poc was helped by the community.
(Baonghean) -After being published by Nghe An Electronic Newspaper (article "The blind boy in Hoi Poc"- February 24, 2009), Gia Ba Ly (class 8C, Nam Can I Ethnic Minority Secondary School, Ky Son district, Nghe An) received great attention and help from many organizations, unions, businesses and individuals. The blind boy is no longer alone.
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Doctor Nguyen Huu Le - Director of Nghe An Eye Center, after reading the article about Gia Ba Ly, was very sympathetic and promised to create the best conditions for Ly's eye surgery.
Doctor Le said: “The Eye Center wants to directly contact Ly to diagnose his condition in order to provide the best treatment solutions. In the immediate future, the Center will coordinate with the family, the school and the People's Committee of Ky Son district to bring Ly to Vinh city and take care of all the travel, accommodation and eye surgery expenses. We will try our best to restore the boy's sight.”
When he heard that he would be going to Vinh City for eye examination, little Ly's heart was filled with excitement and anxiety. Ly was very nervous. In the past few days, Ly told his parents that he was extremely happy to hear the news. Mr. Tran Dang Hung - the school's principal hurriedly went to each class, his voice hoarse: "Tomorrow our Ly will be taken for an eye examination."
The good news quickly spread, making the students look up at the teacher excitedly. Lau Ba Ca, a close friend who followed his friend on the forest paths to class and school, heard the news and burst into tears. Many times, Ba Ca often told Ly fairy tales, about the wishes granted by fairies. And sometimes made Ly believe that the story always had a "miracle" like a happy ending.
I still remember, once Mr. Dao Cong Quang - an officer of the Ky Son Education Department met Ly and encouraged her: "The steps in this life seem to be towards happiness, giving wings to joy. If you keep walking, the "light" of joy, the light of dawn will shine. Simply a small joy, you will feel it yourself".
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The school drum sounded loudly, the friends rushed towards Ly, holding hands tightly, everyone's face was excited, filled with joy and encouragement: "Ly, try your best to come down and come back with us". At the farewell dinner, the friends gathered around the homemade fire to cook rice. The rice was very simple, with wild vegetables cooked in soup; the pot was full of rice; next to the "food" was a jar of white salt "treat". The teachers also contributed to the fun with a bottle of fish sauce. The "party" ended, Ly hurried back to the waiting room.
The cold night in the highlands was bone-chilling. After 9pm, Ly asked his friend to take him to see Mr. Hung and boldly "suggested": "Teacher, please take me to Vinh right now. I'm looking forward to seeing the light, teacher!". To please his student, Mr. Hung decided to send Mr. Pham Manh Thuong - a teacher - to take him to Muong Xen Town to catch the last bus. At 11pm, the wheels rolled, carrying a burning dream that was always present in the heart of the studious blind student.
Hope is lost
At 5am, Ly arrived in Vinh City. The teacher and student were exhausted from staying up all night. Not having time to eat, both of them hurriedly took a motorbike taxi to Nghe An Eye Center, but because we didn't have an appointment and Dr. Le was busy with a meeting, we had to take Ly back to find a place to stay.
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In the afternoon, when we received a phone call from Dr. Le, we were all secretly happy. Before the examination, the medical staff and doctors of the Eye Center had mobilized each person to donate to support the boy Ly. However, that encouragement could not dispel the pain when the eye examination results were so disappointing. Ly had dry eyes due to Vitamin A deficiency, corneal atrophy, opaque scars causing blindness, and eyeball atrophy.
The boy's tears flowed down his thousand-mile legs, Ly had placed his faith... but it all came to an end. On the way back, our footsteps and Ly's were silent, lingering, lingering forever.... Teacher Thuong encouraged: "This life is so vast, I believe you will definitely walk all that vast path. Be confident, then your life will have wings because you have teachers, friends and everyone by your side."
Ly's life is not alone
After hearing the news that Ly could not have eye surgery, a number of businesses in Nghe An province also came to give gifts and encouragement. To make up for the pain and loss, the Nghe An Department of Education and Training is also contacting to try to transfer Ly to the Nghe An Center for Disabilities, creating the best conditions for Ly to continue to nurture her dream of going to school.
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A transportation company in Nghe An province (name withheld) also promised to provide material support to help him overcome his difficulties. Thus, the loss and pain that were tightly binding the boy's path to find knowledge was no longer alone.
This morning (February 26, 2009), Secretary of the Nghe An Provincial Business Youth Union Nguyen Dinh Hung, together with the Provincial Construction Planning and Design Consulting Company; Vinh Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade presented Gia Ba Ly with a tape recorder and 2 million VND. Doctor Nguyen Huu Le, representative of the Eye Center, also presented Ly with 2 million VND.
Secretary Hung said: Ly will be supported by the Business Union throughout her studies, and in the near future, a number of units will be mobilized to join hands and contribute to making Ly's dream of continuing to go to school come true. This is also one of the contents of "following" Uncle Ho's words and responding to the "For the West" movement of the youth of Nghe An Business sector.
We believe that, although life's path is full of thorns and hardships, Ly will courageously stand up and continue on the journey he has chosen. Like a simple thing that has become the truth in the famous work of O.Henry: "The last leaf will not necessarily fall, it will firmly reign in the heart of each person if they believe that joy and life still exist in this life."
Article and photos: Ngoc Binh
