Help those in need. Read the story.

The Great Guru Thiruvalluvar said 2035 years ago that,

80. அன்பின் வழியது உயிர்நிலை அ·திலார்க்கு
என்புதோல் போர்த்த உடம்பு.
The seat of life is love alone;
Or beings are but skin and bone!
Remember the email message I sent earlier. I urged MHDM members and individuals out there to do their bit to help those in need. More so now that it is Deepavali time.

MHDM, with the help of Klang Arul Nilayam made an attempt to identify a very deserving family in Sentosa, Klang.

This is story about our visit to their place yesterday 13/10/09).

My wife Sakunthala, I, Mr.Nagaraj, and Mr.Rajoo went to this house yesterday evening.

The family consists of the husband in his late 30s, his wife, four children, and the lady’s mother. The eldest of the four children was out. The rest were at home.

The husband does odd jobs to make a living. Works with a Chinese man and they live in his house. The earnings are just enough to take care of the rent, water and electricity. The lady is a house-wife. She is pregnant with their fifth child. The old lady is bed-ridden with urinary problems. She needs to go to the hospital to have her bag replaced once in two weeks. The eldest has stopped schooling. The second and third are in schools. The last one is at home.

Now the problems – The husband is a drug-addict. He seemed ok yesterday. He talked well and was very polite and appreciative. The old lady was not taken to the hospital which they should have done a few days ago because they did not have the RM30.00. The second girl couldn’t go to school because the bus driver refused to take because they have not paid the bus fare for the last three months. The third boy who used to go to the kinder-garten too has stopped because they owe the kinder-garten RM210(RM70x3). Situation was bad that last week they did not have anything to eat. Our Klang Arul Nilayam through their ‘Pidi Arisi Thittam’ send some rice they had a meal from that. They told me that they did not have anything to eat until that rice arrived.

When we started giving out the cloths and food, they all were very thankful and kept telling us that they could now eat for about a month. They couldn’t afford to buy even a single piece cloth for any of the children. 

We were touched because the kids were do delighted receiving the cloths and kept thanking us. They came to car to send us off, not forgetting to thank us. They said that they were so happy that we visited their home.

Besides the donations we have collected to get those cloths and food items, we gave another RM50.00 for them take the old lady to the doctor as soon as possible and use the remaining RM20 buy that man a shirt. (By the way, we had cloths for all except for him).

I promised them that we will do something concrete about making it possible for the kids to go to school. We have to also make sure that they have basic items to eat.

Well, my fellow MHDM members and friends out there, please read this story, reflect on it, and do the needful. Your contributions, however small they are, will go a long way in making things possible for this family.

I just can’t explain how I felt being there. More so, the joy in their faces.

What was amazing to me and my wife is that none of them showed facial expressions which did not reflect enthusiasm, future and hope. They showed us that no problems (not to mention the position they are in now) could stop somebody from hoping for a better future, with blessings from God.

God bless all.