Humanity lives On Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 15:36 Narayanaswamy Sekar <nsekar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: N Sekar <nseka...@yahoo.com> > Date: Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 2:06 PM > Subject: Re: Fwd: Snippets from Sitendra Kumar - Treatment of Lepers > To: <chittananda...@gmail.com> > Cc: Rangarajan T.N.C. <tncrangara...@yahoo.com>, Kerala Iyer < > keralaiy...@googlegroups.com>, Narayanaswamy Sekar <nsekar...@gmail.com>, > Mathangi K. Kumar <mathangikku...@gmail.com>, Mani APS <m...@manijpn.in>, > Srinivasan Sridharan <sridhsriniva...@gmail.com>, SRIRAMAJAYAM < > vabal...@gmail.com>, Suryanarayana Ambadipudi <sn.ambadip...@gmail.com>, > Rama (Iyer 123 Group) <kaviran...@gmail.com> > > > Beautiful Sir and thanks. > > God chooses people like the R K Saboos, (Mr and Mrs) to ensure humanity > never dies. Blessed people are all these who gave a second life to those > poor people. > > Beautiful and inspiring message. Thanks to Sri Sitendra Kumar for > spreading the good deeds that will inspire others. > > N Sekar > > Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer > <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=NativePlacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_EmailSignatureGrowth_YahooMail:Search,Organize,Conquer&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000945&af_sub5=OrganizeConquer__Static_> > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 11:22 AM, Chittanandam V R > <chittananda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > *Received from Shri Sitendra Kumar* > > *Giving lepers a new lease of life* > > RK Saboo > > *BACK in 1978, my wife Usha went to the Sector 17 market in Chandigarh one > evening. As she came out of the car, she stepped on a leper in a heap of > rags. She apologised and started talking to him. His story was > heart-rending. He said he and others lived near a river and had no means of > survival except begging. Usha went there next day and found 70-80 men, > women and children — all badly infected, with suppurating wounds and > disfigured faces — begging during the day and spending nights under trees. > She came home very sad and shared the distressing encounter with me.* > *I met then UT Deputy Commissioner MG Devasahayam and apprised him of the > leper situation. I also mentioned that the Rotary Club of Chandigarh would > take up a rehabilitation project with the UT administration and raise the > funds required. Thereafter, I requested then Chief Commissioner TN > Chaturvedi for a plot of land, to be allotted free of lease money, where > the lepers could be settled. Our request was accepted immediately, and a > plot was allotted in Sector 47. We named the place Chandi Kusht Ashram.* > > *Soon, our Rotary Club meeting was held; planning and action started. > Firstly, the children were segregated in a new home run by the UT Red Cross > and we made sure that the lepers did not beg any more. A club member, BM > Singh, arranged for them to grow and sell vegetables and provided goats for > milk. They were given material to build huts for each couple on the > allotted land. A dispensary was started in a mud hut with equipment, > medicines, furniture, etc. for their regular treatment. We visited them > frequently and supplied rations and other necessities. We were in constant > touch with their segregated children and monitored their health, education > and general well-being. For years, it remained our top priority.* > > *Realising that the task was enormous, I requested Rotary Midtown Club to > join us and then President BL Ramsisaria took on the responsibility in > 1980. A doctor couple of Midtown Club, Subhash and Rekha, regularly tended > to the patients and in time, all inmates were fully cured and declared > leprosy-free. Usha invited the whole group for lunch in our garden, drawing > the wrath of our domestic staff!* > > *Gradually, a community kitchen and dispensary were built in 1983. The > first block of unit homes was built in 1985, and the project was completed > in 1988 by then Rotary Midtown President DP Khandelia. In February 1989, 41 > houses were dedicated to them in the presence of then Chief Commissioner > Ashok Pradhan.* > > *Now, all residents are totally disease-free and self-dependent. Chandi > Kusht Ashram takes pride of place in the City Beautiful.* > > *A chance encounter changed the lives of so many families forever. > Happiness is a strange phenomenon. Indeed, so is the pursuit of happiness.* > > -- RK Saboo > > ************************************* > > Chittanandam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Thatha_Patty" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CABC81ZdRi-rzMM8_g5P6JxignayGo3zW_Vf1%3DDAXv4CqNCftZg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CABC81ZdRi-rzMM8_g5P6JxignayGo3zW_Vf1%3DDAXv4CqNCftZg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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