We do our BIT as we are HIT

One might find it quite shocking to see our sisters out, when the entire country is on a lock down and asked to stay in!!!

Well it is a story of a call to do something for the poor, homeless and  daily wage workers who are more threatened to stay in than to move out. Since it is not a matter of one but of the entire family that are starving, eating kaanji made from wheat flour. People in the slums of Kalmeshwar  have not eaten a complete meal for the last 7 days of the lock down in Maharashtra. The Corona does not seem to threaten them as the sorrow of losing their life with hunger.

Sisters at Sandhyavan and at St. Joseph's Hospital,  Yerla,  Nagpur, reviewed the  latest reports of the daily wage workers starving and some out on the pathway, looking for something to ease their hunger and restlessness.  This caused us to take the initiative to do something worthwhile for them.  So we took up the challenge to cook food and to distribute it  among the daily wage workers and the rag pickers, with the permission of the police and those in authority. Keeping in mind the safety measures and the rules of social distancing with the well experience guidance of Sr. Dr. Bindu and Sr. Neelkusum the nurse incharge of the Palliative Care Unit, we embarked onto this noble task to feed the hungry.

“I was hungry and you gave me to eat.”  These words of Jesus were ringing in our minds and hearts as we continued serving these loving children and adults of  the village.

 

Sr. Deanne & Sr. Albina
Sandhyavan, Yerla

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