A Pharmacist said: Farhad is 7 years old and lives in Maladan. One day he was very sick and his mother carried Farhad to the clinic. He had a very bad gastroenteritis and he had rapid heartbeat, dry mouth and severe vomiting and diarrhea so much so that he was unconscious.

Farhad’s Mother was crying "Why is my son dying" I said " Don’t cry we will help him and if God wants he will become well" I rapidly gave him a IV of Ringer Fluid Serum ,after one hour Farhad opened his eyes and said "I am thirsty give me water".

We gave him Pedialyte Solution. His mother said "I bought same ORS Powder from Pharmacy and the ORS is very tasteless so my son would not take the ORS". I said "This Pedialyte is not tasteless" . The mother gave it to him and he became better and better. The mother prayed for all the clinic staff.

I asked her "Why did your son have diarrhea?" she said: "We don’t have sanitary faucet water and we drink uncovered well water."

I told her "You must drink boiled water and you must cover your well soon". She promised that she would cover their well and boil their water.At the end of the Ringer Serum I said "Please give him Pedialyte on the way and at home". So Farhad was happy and well and was smiling and laughing when he left with his mother.

A Clinic Midwife said: When I was in the waiting room I saw a mother with a 8 or 9 month old child waiting to visit the doctor. The child looked very unhappy. I invited the mother into my room she was surprised.
 
I asked her if I could ask her some questions about her child: "How old is your child?" She said that he is one and half years old.

"Do you breast feed your child?" She replied no because I am not his mother, his mother died during delivery. I am his aunt, I give him a piece of bread and a glass of water with sugar.

"Can you cook food for the child?" She said no because I work on the farm with my husband and the boy during the day is at home and I do not have enough time to cook anything to eat and we eat bread with yoghurt every day.

The poor woman said our economic situation is poor so we cannot buy formula or concentrated baby food for the child. My husband and I work daily at a people’s farm and my oldest son is sometimes sick and sometimes well he cannot work and get a salary.

I said, "Do not be worried God may help you in the future and now listen to me I tell you a better way to make food for your child which is very easy and cheap." She asked how. I said," You can make foods like potato, vegetable sholah {a local food}, yoghurt and milk, in addition I gave her multivitamin powder and I told her to come here after one week. She went away happy.

A woman from a clinic who lost her child two years ago tells her story,
"My child died a few days after his birth. By the time I became pregnant for the second time, I came to this Clinic because I was suffering from weakness. During the examination, I was asked about my children. I told them about my experience. They asked me many questions and during answering to their questions, they figured out the cause. They told me that my child was suffering from Tetanus illness which caused his death.

The clinic‘s doctor prescribed me the Tetanus vaccine for two periods during pregnancy and when the child is born, he/she should be vaccinated as well. He also prescribed me some medicines for my strength and gives the mentioned medicines from the Clinic.

Every month, they come to the Clinic and finally my child was born at this Clinic. By the time my child was 18 months old, I came to Clinic to get the measles vaccine for the child. Now I have a healthy child. I am totally satisfied with the Clinic personnel and thank Allah and the Clinic personnel who provide services in the field of Health care."

Education Stories

Azita's Story "My name is Azita and I am 15 years old but I do not look it because I am backward. ( She is very short and looks like a 6 year old) I was born like this it is genetic. My mother always tells me that you were as small as a cat and I brought you up so carefully. When I was 6 years old I could not talk or walk and my mother had to feed me. When I was 10 my sister held my hand and helped me walk, but sometimes she has got tired and said: "One day I will leave you near a mosque that a dog or other animals eat you."

I have never gone into the street to play with other children, because they made jokes. I was always at home and did not have any hobby to do. I have a sister who is 5 years younger. My mother registered her in a literacy course and she was going to school after the course. Whenever she was not at home, I would take her pen and notebook and continue drawing nonsense lines until I learned how to hold a pen? Then I started to beg to my father to let me go to course with my sister, but he told me no because the students will make fun of you. I continued begging my father and finally he let me to go.

My mother brought me to AIL center and registered me. I was in the first class and my sister was in third. All teachers sympathized with me and then after that, they accepted me as a normal student and I went to class for first time and started lessons, and no one in that class made jokes about me. My hands did not reach the board, but our teacher hugged me and I have been able to write on the board. Every night I have cried and asked God to help me learn something. I was given notebook, pens, and books each month from the office supply because we are very poor and my parents cannot afford these things for me.

Now backward Azita can write and read but I just have some problems with spelling and that is because of my mental situation. We are very poor but now I am always happy because I am literate and I have become familiar with praying and Islamic rules before I did not know about religion. My mother did not take me out with her.
Now I realized that being backward is not something to be ashamed of and I always pray for Professor Yaccoobi and I hope the best for her who has provided us such services."


A 13 year old girl who is a student at a AIL center says, "My parents are illiterate and they suffer because of that. Fortunately they realized that literacy is very important for human beings to have a better life. They did not send me to school when they had to do because they heard the regular schools have no quality and they don’t have enough teachers and also they did not want their young daughter to walk a long way to go to school. But at the same time they would like me to be educated and tried to find an educational center safe for girls and that has quality. They found out the information about Zainabia Center in detail from some neighbors.

To make themselves satisfied and make everything clear in detail they went to the center and saw that the center was run by women and all the teachers are women and the teaching system has quality. My 45 years old mother got admission for me and herself in literacy class. We started learning literacy and fortunately I go fast and during 9 months I finished 3rd grade because I wanted to reach higher classes. But my mother stopped learning when she learnt how to read and write. It was very interesting that we did our homework together and helped each other. We enjoyed being classmates. The teachers that have been trained by AIL are unique. The supervisors of AIL office regularly come and supervise the center and that is the reason the quality is good.

Now I am in 6th grade and I am very lucky to have this opportunity to continue my education. At the same time my mother learns tailoring. So this center really changed our life. This center caused my 45 years old mother to become literate and a tailor that now she supports the family too.

I thank God and AIL that provided this opportunity for me and my mother. I wish all the women will have the same opportunity because illiterate people are like the blind.