<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hope on Pitara Kids Network</title><link>https://www.pitara.com/tags/hope/</link><description>Recent content in Hope on Pitara Kids Network</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:46:31 +0530</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.pitara.com/tags/hope/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Keep Hope Alive</title><link>https://www.pitara.com/community/your-pages/keep-hope-alive/</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 1998 14:28:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.pitara.com/community/your-pages/keep-hope-alive/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;First prize winner of Spin-A-Tale contest&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It was destiny that bound us. Jamie, the black kid whose mum worked for us and me, Kevin the kid, whose mother employed Jamie&amp;rsquo;s mum. When I saw him first he was just this skinny kid walking around with his head drooping down to his feet. I asked him if he went to school but I got no answer.&lt;/p&gt;





	
	
	

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&lt;p&gt;I assumed that he was just shy, so I went about my own work while he just sort of kept staring at anything. Later that night my parents started discussing Jamie over dinner and that&amp;rsquo;s when I came to know that Jamie was deaf&amp;hellip; I was really shocked and not because he was deaf because I have seen lots of disabled people but the horrifying manner in which he had lost the power to hear.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>