EXPRESSION OF LOVE

Mr.Mathew Abraham of Cholakathu, Kunthirical P O, Thalavady  , Alapuzha District, Kerala,  India

had a neighbour, Mr. Raveendran. Ramesh, his son, was afflicted with Polio and was crippled while he was a child. Ramesh crawled around and Mr. Raveendran could not do much for the child. Mr. Mathew Abraham took it upon himself to ensure that Ramesh had a good life. He took him to CMC Vellore where he was operated upon by specialists. Ramesh started walking with the help of crutches. He was taught stitching by the rehabilitation centre there. Mr. Mathew Abraham gifted Ramesh with a stitching machine. Ramesh became a tailor and started earning. He has married. He has children. He drives around in a car today.

What one individual did for a fellow human being was splendid. How many are prepared to sacrifice their own interests for  any one else ? Mr. Mathew Abraham did have a family. He had two children, a girl and a boy.  He was already supporting two of his sisters who were badly off. He was never rich. He was only a Clerk in Life Isurance Corporation of  India. Those days the Pay and the Perks were very low. What drove him? He wanted to  put  a smile on the face of a large number of his unfortunate and disadvantaged brethren.  It was single minded devotion. The constistency with which he was locating  the persons  who required assistance was astounding. He never bothered to saddle any one else with the paucity of finance that stared at him all the time. Yet he went on serving the needy.

We do not have to be rich to put a smile on the face of the unfortunate.

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