Rahmath lives.
Some of our readers may remember Rahmath, an exceptional patient under our treatment, who smilingly went through agonising pain and eventually succumbed to the disease while spreading light and sweetness around her. (We had written about her here and here) She and her family were in dire economic situation, but still she could give a lot. Now that she is gone, her daughter Sunitha continues to live a difficult life and tries hard to sustain her mother’s tradition.
When Rahmath died, the daughter had insisted on donating part of her meagre inheritance to Pallium India. When we protested saying that she could ill afford it, she replied, “I have no choice. I have to do it for my mother.” Eking out a precarious living with a low paid job, she continued to send money on every single death anniversary of her mother.
Recently, tragedy struck again. Her husband had an accident and died a sudden death from head injury, leaving her to fend for three of her children, 15, 12 and 10 years old. Just as the rituals following the death were going on, she called us. She was making an urgent transfer of some money to us and wanted to ensure that on the very same day, our patients in our inpatient facility and their families should be given a meal in memory of the departed.
Sunitha, you are a lesson in giving. We bow before your mother’s memory and bow in respect of your essential humanity.
(In the picture, the late Rahmath, daughter Sunitha and two of Sunitha’s children).
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