Jakarta Globe, April 23, 2011
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A five-year-old Indonesian boy forced to care for his paralyzed mother may have been given a chance to finally enjoy his childhood.
Muhammad Aditya Firmansyah, affectionately known as Adit, had been facing a daily routine of cooking, cleaning and doing the laundry as well as attending to the needs of his mother, who has been paralyzed since the death of her husband four years ago.
Desperately poor, Adit has never been to school, instead nursing his mother Sunarti and helping her bathe and go to the toilet.
Television footage on Metro TV shows the child from Keramat village, Nganjuk, East Java, cleaning dishes and scrubbing dirty clothes in a manner that suggests he has been doing chores for a number of years.
The story of Adit and his mother’s plight finally reached Taufiqqurachman, the head of Nganjuk district, culminating in a visit to the family.
Taufiq immediately arranged free hospital treatment for Sunarti and placed Adit in the care of the district’s social affairs department.
Sunarti, as quoted by a local newspaper, expressed her gratitude for the government’s help and hoped her son could go to school and learn to play like other children his age.
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