Trishna and Krishna's new miracle
Trishna and Krishna were born in a remote village in Bangladesh but heir parents couldn't afford to look after them. They were taken to an orphanage in Dacca, Bangladesh’s capital.
Through her foundation ‘Children First’, their adoptive mother Moira Kelly heard about the twins.
She became their legal guardian and, after months of lobbying, brought them to Australia to have world-first separation surgery.
“Both girls were dying when they arrived. So the decision was fairly straight forward, we either separated them or let them die," Dr Tony Holmes said.
Trishna and Krishna’s biological parents had little knowledge of what had become of their daughters until they saw them on Bangladeshi TV following the operation.
Every year since then their birth mother, Lovely Golda, has come to Australia to see her children.
They have made incredible progress. Trishna has advanced more quickly than her sister, and is about to start school, but helps her every day to get stronger.
But this year, their biological mother brought a big surprise with her.
Golda was pregnant with their baby brother.
She suffered through another difficult pregnancy but gave birth to a healthy boy via caesarian in April, weighing 3.6kg at the Mercy Hospital for Women.
She asked Moira Kelly to choose his name.
"It’s the biggest honour in my life really, the babies name is Matthew my favourite boys name…it’s Matthew," Kelly said.
It is an honour well earned. Moira Kelly shares her small home with the Bangladeshi twins and many more.
She is also the adoptive mother of brothers Ahmed and Emmanuel, born with severely underdeveloped limbs due to chemical warfare.
They were discovered by Kelly in 1998 at the Mother Teresa Orphanage in Baghdad.
She also opened her home to 12 year-old Papa from Burma, who is legally blind, as well as Mimosa, a 17-year-old girl with disfigured hands from Albania.
"Don't look at the disability. Look at the ability," Kelly said.
Watch the full story in the video above.
To find out how you can help Trishna and Krishna or to contact Moira about her work, visit www.moirakellyaustralia.com
