What's your dream, Gus?

Gus, 17 year old working at 'Moonlight Café' in McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala. He's parents are sick so Gus is running the business alone, which doesn't go down very well. He's dreaming about becoming a bank manager. When I spoke to him for a while he said he had three problems:

1) The biggest problem was that he didn't have any clothes to wear at next weeks school party. He only had one set of clothes, what he was wearing. And he wasn't able to go if he didn't have a pair of jeans like the other kids otherwise they'd tease him (western problems creeping into mountain villages).

2) He didn't have any shoes to wear. He could borrow his dad's shoes, but they were too big.

3) The third biggest problem to Gus was that he couldn't pay the fee for the school, so he'd get thrown out next week.

We calculated that it would cost 1200 rupees (less than 20 €) to solve those three problems. So I left with 20 € less in my pocket and one boy's smile happier.