Children Like Me: Moryom

Meet Moryom from Bangladesh

Have you ever been bullied? We hope not, but if you have, you’ll understand a bit of what 9-year-old Moryom has to go through. 

She lives with her parents and older brother in a small village in Bangladesh. Her mother teaches Sunday school and teaches people to read and write: her father leads a church. But because the family is Christian, they are often bullied and treated very unfairly.

“I walk two kilometres to school because no one wants to take me in their rickshaw,” she says. “They mock me, saying ‘Christian’. When I go to school, I see some of my classmates on the way. Sometimes they throw bricks at me and push me.”

Mistreated at school

At school, Moryom often spends her day alone. “Most of the people in my school don’t treat me well,” she says. “Sometimes they beat me with sticks and call me ‘Christian’ as an insult. My classmates don’t allow me to play with them.”

What would you do about this? You’d tell a teacher, right? But the sad thing is that Moryom’s teachers don’t do anything about it. 

“I didn’t want to go to school anymore,” Moryom says. “I got very angry but still asked Jesus to forgive them.” 

Despite this, Moryom is determined to follow Jesus. And she loves going to church with her friends. 

“I really like Sunday school,” she says. “We sing songs, dance and pray together. We also read from the children’s Bible.”

This children’s Bible was provided by local Open Doors partners, thanks to your prayers and gifts. 

Thanks to you, Moryom’s faith remains strong. “Because Jesus died on the cross for my sins, I forgive my friends. Those who mistreat me, insult me, hate me, or don’t love me, I forgive them all.”

“I want to be a teacher,” she adds. “When I become a teacher, I will tell all the children about Jesus. This is my dream.”

Something to talk about

• When people do bad things to you do you find it easy to forgive them? Maybe we can pray to God to help us forgive others.

Something to pray

• Pray for children like Moryom who face bullying and unfair treatment
• Pray for the work of Open Doors partners who help loads of children around the world
• Pray that the way Moryom acts will show others how much Jesus loves all of us