“So many people are hanging by the thinnest of threads. Treat people well, you could just be that thread.” Anonymous.
We at St. Agnes
High School, Mumbai, have reached out during
the Pandemic to the needy showing them care and support - material as well as
emotional.
Two students
from our Primary section could not afford to buy two mobiles for online learning
due to poor economic condition, so they were missing out on their studies .We
requested their mother to bring them to school so that we could help them in
their studies through or school mobile. Their mother brings them at 8.30am and
picks them up at 01.30pm. Morning
Another
parent requested for a job since her husband has lost his job .We gave her
teaching of the catechism class and pay her honorarium to support her. Sister
also got a sponsor to pay her daughters fees for five months.
There was an
elderly Lady who used to bring Tiffin for the school children and earned a
living but now as school has closed she has no source of Income. We give her monthly
ration.
Our helpers
are actively involved in the care for creation movement. Last year during
season of creation they planted vegetables on primary school ground from it we
got organic pumpkins, muskmelons and Fenugreek vegetables for the sisters
kitchen. They had planted four Elaichi Banana plants, of which 3 have given us
Bananas this year. They have also made Vermi culture pit and dump the vegetable
peals from kitchen into it.
This is how
we practice this care for people and care for creation. I conclude this article
from the quote from Khalil Gibran “Generosity is giving more than you can, and
Pride is taking less than you need.”
From PUNE Province, India
