Thanks. Kailash is doing a great job. Deba Bhai, if you can tell me where to send a contribution, I would like to do so for this really good work and also urge others for the same.
Deba Bhai, it is sad that I don't meet your exacting standards for NGOs. The only saving grace is that I am *not a NGO person*, I am only a *common citizen* of this State of Orissa, who likes to express his opinions. yours truly Nachiketa ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Deba Nayak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 14, 2008 8:16 PM Subject: *Orissa needs Kailash not NGO like Nachiketa* To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] A good Samaritan that is Kailash He is a vegetable vendor by profession. But 29-year-old Kailash Sarangi is known in Orissa capital Bhubaneswar for his extra-ordinary passion extending a helping hand to unknown patients who land in a city hospital everyday. One can find the young man in the Capital Hospital, Bhubaneswars best known government run health centre every morning. What is more important is the fact that he extends his services free of cost. In fact, many times he pays from his own pocket while treating an unknown patient. Kailash who originally hails from a village in coastal Nayagarh district of the state was kind hearted right from his childhood. However, his passion to extend a helping hand to people in distress began nearly eight years back when he witnessed a road mishap on a Bhubaneswar street. <https://www.online.citibank.co.in/portal/Landingmaster.jsp?TID=t2&PID=reghm&CID=t2a1p7c1&LMS=RCA$RCAO$DDB$DEHWH180$DEHWH180$DECCANHERALD> A scooterist had fled from the spot after hitting an 8-9 year old slum boy. Kailash picked up the severely injured boy and rushed to the capital hospital. He treated the poor boy spending money from his own pocket and remained with him till he fully recovered from his injuries. "That was a turning point in my life and beginning of a journey for me which continues till date by the grace of Lord Jagannath", says the unmarried young man who had landed in Bhubaneswar nearly 14 years back in search of a livelihood when his student career came to a grinding halt after matriculation because of poverty. Apart from road mishap victims, he also helps out unknown patients deserted by their own family members for various reasons. When this correspondent spoke to Kailash in the capital hospital he was at the bedside of an unidentified and unconscious patient who was drugged and robbed by a gang of miscreants at a railway station in the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. Initially, he was not getting enough time to spend in the hospital as he had to run his vegetable shop in the busy unit one daily market in the city. However, he now has handed over the shop to his nephew who runs it with the help of an employee. "Now I am spending maximum of my time in the hospital everyday", said Kailash adding that he currently helps nearly 60 to 70 patients every month. Extra time and strong desire to help the helpless has prompted the young man to expand his social service activities. He has now started teaching 20 orphaned slum children at an open sky makeshift school near the Bhubaneswar railway station everyday. He has also launched a non-governmental organization(NGO) called "Sahaya" last year to help the poor and needy. Though he never charges the service he provides to the unknown patients he needed help to run his NGO but in vain. "I have approached many people including government officials and local politicians for some help to run my NGO but none has so far come forward to assist me. In Orissa, goondas and anti-socials can get government assistance but not those who really into doing social service,",lamented Kailash. However, despite these setbacks he still intends to fulfill his long cherished dream to set up a home for orphaned. <http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jun152008/editpage2008061473530.asp>*S T Beuria in Bhubaneswar* http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jun152008/editpage2008061473530.asp
