Top Up

Mobile technology hian khawvel hi a fan chhuak mek niin a lang. Chikankata thingtlang hmunah pawh hian hmunphiattu leh loneitu atanga professional leh executive thlengin an hmang tangkai em em a. Hmun tin deuhthawah hian mobile phone counter a awm deuh vek avangin, an ‘talk time’ a zawh pawhin an Top Up zung zung tawh mai thin a ni. Keini chhungkua pawhin India rama kan chhungte leh ram danga kan thiante biak kan duh chang hi chuan kan talk time balance neih sa hi kan han sit deuh thin avangin, kan han Top Up leh zauh bawk thin a.

Chuvangin he Saptawng thu pahnih “Top Up” tih hi helai hmuna kan thu lam rik zin ber a ni hial ang. Mobile phone nena inkaihhnawih thilah chauh ni lo, thil dang tam tak sawi nan Top Up hi local slang angin kan hmang bawk. Chung te chu:

CHAZ Top Up: CHAZ chu Churches Health Association of Zambia tihna a ni a. Zambia rama hriselna lam hnathawk NGO zinga lian ber a ni. Chikankata Hospital pawh hi CHAZ member kan ni ve a. Kum khat kalta atang khan CHAZ hian Chikankata Hospital & Health Services hnuaia hna thawktute zawng zawng hi sum faiin a rawn tanpui a, hei hi ‘CHAZ Top Up’ kan tih chu a ni. Hna thawktute tan a hlu em em a, a dawng tlem ber hmunphiattute pawhin thlatin hian Indian Rupees 1,500/- hu ang vel an dawng a, hei hian sorkar/Salvation Army atanga an hlawh chanve a hen daih a. An hlawh pangngai nena belh khawm phei chuan tam tham ve tak a ni. CHAZ Top Up sem ni hi chuan hnathawktute hi an hlim haw thei hle thin.

Teaching Incentive or Top Up: Chikankata Secondary (High) School zirtirtute hian sorkar/Salvation Army atanga an hlawh bakah thlatin sum an dawng ve bawk a. Hei hi an Top Up ve, teaching incentive an tih chu a ni. An chhut dan chu: zirtirtuin period khat zel a zirtirah Top Up Rs. 15/- hu ang vel a dawng a. Entir nan - Ka nupui hian nitin period 5 lo zirtir ta se, kar khatah period 25 a zirtir ang a, thla khatah chuan period 100, hei hi Rs. 15/-in puntir ta ila, thlatin Rs. 1,500/- Top Up a rawn hawn dawn tihna a ni a, a lawm ve thei viau tur a nia! He Top Up hi Parents-Teacher Association (PTA) thawhkhawm atanga lo kal a ni.

Mbasela Top Up: Zambian ho hi inlawm thiam leh ngaipawimawh ber hnam an nih rualin inthlah lama pachhe ber an ni hial thung ang. Khawlai lennaa in-greet te, biak ina hotu leh mi thar han lawm te hi an la urhsun thei em em a. An hnam dan dik taka in-greet phei hi chuan minute 5 tehmeuh a awh thin, chhungkhat laina zawng zawng an patea te chanchin thlenga an inzawh tel thin avangin. Keini ang mi hmanhmawh reng thin tan phei chuan hun a uihawm duh khawp mai. Mipui punkhawm nikhua hian inlawmna hun siam a ni ziah thin a, he hun kaihruaitu bik hi ruat an ni thin. Kaihruaituin kut ben zat tur nen lam a bituk vek a, a bituk sa zat kut ben zawh a nih hnuah khan vawi thum ben nawn tur te a han ti leh a. He a nawnna hi Mbasela emaw, Top Up an ti bawk thin a ni. Hetianga a Top Up-na kut benna huna an mi lawm nih chu nuam duh ve tak a ni.

ARVs: AIDS enkawlna damdawi Antiretrovirals (ARVs) hi Top Up tiin thiam takin a hming an phuah zaih bawk a. Top Up zawng zawng zingah kan hmang tangkaiin kan ngeihpui ber awm e. AIDS avanga damlo, an CD4 count 1-a tlahniam tawhte pawh hi (the normal CD4 count is somewhere between 500 and 1500 cells per cubic millimetre), he Top Up hian han enkawl ila, an CD4 count chu 500 chunglamah te a sang chho leh thin a, HIV hrik pai tih pawh hriat har khawpin an hrisel chho leh thin a ni.

Heng Top Up chi hrang hrangte hian mite inkarah inpawhna leh inkungkaihna tha a siam a, khawsak a tiawlsam a, mite rilruah hlimna leh lawmna a thlen a, rilru leh taksaah damna a thlen bawk a ni. Heng Top Up kan sawi tlemte bak hi Top Up dang nitina semchhuah tur kan nei ngei ang. Mite an hnathawh thata fak te, an lungngaih nia hnem leh hmangaihna lantir te, leh thilpek te tham ber inpekte pawh hian mite nun hlimna nasa takin a thlen thei ngei ang.

Whose Neighbour Am I?

One of our

Community Centres

and a local bar called

'Chiller's Den'

are found standing side by side

Once I happened to pick by chance a copy of June 21, 2008 issue of the USA national publication of the War Cry. Inclusion in the magazine’s column of 'Quotes of the past and present' was Commissioner Lalkiamlova, International Secretary for South Asia’s verbatim - “The question is not who’s my neighbour, but whose neighbour am I”. Together let’s try to answer this question.

How easy it is to count ourselves as acquaintances of people whom we admire, the rich and famous elite, and how hard we may try to have them accept us! But equally difficult is even to simply consider ourselves as neighbour to the poor, infamous and the down-and-outs of society. Still more unlikely is this latter category of fellow beings accepting ‘us’ as their neighbours!

Today, where image seems to be all-important, we note that Jesus cared nothing for his image. He made himself ‘nothing’. He came into our world, into our mess, into our shoes and ultimately into our place. He embraced the cross. He made total identification with us sinners. (Philippians 2: 5-7).

Two thousand years later we still need to hear the Master’s words - ‘Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant’. The parable of the Good Samaritan reminds us how easy it is for us to be so committed to our standards, practices and work schedules that we fail to make an impact in the ‘real world’– a world of chaos, violence and suffering, where our faith and service are most needed.

Jesus identifies himself with me, so shall I with the suffering world.