This is an interesting story of a lay man who was moved by seeing the
condition of poor people at a Government Hospital, Puthur, Trichirappali and
wanted to do something to help them. So he began serving the patients by
providing hot water every day; the patients started waiting on eagerly for his
arrival daily, and within a short time he was serving them simple food, and
with the help of his friends and volunteers started helping the poor patients
and their relatives.
The poor who come here for treatment had to wait for a long time, and
have to maintain themselves; Mr V Govindaraj couldn’t bear to see the patients
struggling, felt unhappy after seeing the poor condition of the patients. He
started self service with the help of his friends and volunteers, who seeing
his service for the needy started contributing money and even made some special
food for occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries and other family occasions.
Agasthiyar annadhanam is a volunteer based nonprofit organization that
is now reaching out to the poor by collecting used clothes from people to
provide the needy and purchases coconut oil, bathing and washing soaps etc and
is extending its services to other service homes.
One dedicated volunteer goes on regularly to the hospital interior visiting
the poor people on daily basis and
informs them about the annadhanam vehicle timings so that they come at theat
particular time and collects food; this service is going on for 24 years at
Government hospital Trichy, Tamilnadu India.
Mr. Ravindra Kumar the son of Mr. V Govindaraj has now taken up his
father’s duty with happiness to continue the service of feeding the poor.
Ravindra Kumar says hunger is hunger and it knows no religion, all of Gods creatures
from the ant to the elephant are slaves to hunger, so he says they serve food
to anyone who comes to them. He took voluntary retirement lives on the pension
and has now made this a trust wherein he has members regularly supporting to
feed the poor. He feels it’s a special calling and he is happy to follow in his
fathers footsteps, he lost his father and he feels he much respond to Gods
calling.
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