Flower Girl and her Dreams

Lesly Biro from Leicester in England is helping a young 

family in India to get back on their feet

An extra ordinary story…………………… 

how I came to be involved is that I went to 

Puttaparthi in 1998 to be with Sai Baba.  I left India in the 60s, 

having been born there and lived there for approx 19 years.  

So I went back to India after a break of nearly 40 years

                              Oblamma's home that came down in the Rain

Walking through the village of Puttaparthi when I 

went back in 1999 a flower girl (Oblumma) passed by 

with a big smile and said hello and that she 

lived there and we could visit her home.  

So we went with her into this little mud hut 

(about 4' x 4') with a roof made of palm leaves. 

She lived there with her three children and her mother.  They 

slept on cardboard boxes on the ground.  

My heart went to them!!  Two of her children were 

school age but weren't going to school because she couldn't 

affford it, 

so an American lady I had met and myself are 

sponsoring them to go to a local school. 

This costs £44 a year which includes some clothes Just think 

what that 

is doing for the whole family. Hopefully those boys 

will obtain jobs and, therefore, will not have to go begging on 

the streets. 

The following time that I went back 

to discover that Oblumma's hut had been washed away in the 

rain.  

She now had a fourth child to look after –

       Happy faces when they found out we would build new home for them 

A boy that had been abandoned by his parents - 

he too is now sponsored at the school by one of my friends.  

Her little girl was now of school age so a friend is sponsoring her. 

So all 4 children are at school. 

Next job was to set her up in a home - 

so a friend and I have bought her some land and had a home 

built.  

This is 14' x 27' - so a lot more space than previously.  

This cost £1,300 approx .  

I went to India in August and arrived in time to be 

there for her to move into her home,  

so was there for the pooja (wasn't that good timing by Sai Baba).  

She has a kitchen and bathroom.  She doesn't have water - 

still has to collect it and still has to go to the fields for the 

toilet!  No electricity at the moment because that is another 

£150 and I have other needs to see to.  

She can cope for now with lamps and she and her 

children will be warm and dry.

The director of school the children are at informed me 

when I was in Puttaparthi in 

September that they had to vacate the school by the end 

of the year.  

This is due to the fact that the rent has risen dramatically,

                 Oblama's new home with all the family

the school is too small for the growing number of

children - now 80 and the facilities not good i.e. 

no toilets and nowhere for the children to play outside.  

He showed me a piece of land where a school 

with 10 classrooms and toilets could be built 

with room outside for the children to play.  

He asked if I could try and raise money. 

At the time it seemed at mammoth task - but with the grace of 

Sai Baba, we have raised £530 so far.  

This week-end I am doing a car boot sale 

with donations from friends.  

Bit by bit - brick by brick - 

hopefully we can build this school with Sai Bab's help.

With love and peace.  Lesley

If you would like to help Lesley Biro in 

anyway you may contact her directly.

Phone-0116 241 9096   

   MS Lesly Biro

Add-   9 Forest Rise

           Thurnby

           Leicester LE7 9PG

           UK

OR

E-mail  Leslybiro@hotmail.com