Latest update December 23rd, 2024 3:40 AM
Family receives home from New Jersey Humanitarian Mission
The New Jersey Arya Samaj Humanitarian Mission has extended a helping hand to a family on the Corentyne and has built a home for the members.
Deodat Dasrath and his family stand in front of their new home
Deodat Dasrath and his wife have six children and have been living at his father’s home at Lancaster, Corentyne for the past 13 years.
The Humanitarian Mission, headed by Pandit Suresh Sugrim, has been involved in these kinds of charitable works in Guyana and further afield for a number of years.
The home, which is constructed at Wire Dam, Whim, Corentyne, is a flat concrete structure and has been built at a cost of $1.3M.
The Humanitarian Mission, in the past, has handed over other homes without any cost attached to it. However, in its quest to help those who help themselves, the Mission is donating $400,000 to the Dasrath family for the construction. The family, in turn, agreed to pay $900,000 to the Mission at a rate of $10,000 per month, interest free.
At the end of the repayment programme, the home becomes their legitimate property.
Dasrath, who broke down in tears, thanked Pandit Sugrim and Mr K. Dhanessar, both of whom are from the Mission, for their kindness and for finally making it possible for him being able to house his family.
“Me meet it hard for 15 years. Since me left school and married, me meet it hard. But now me supposed to meet a little ease. I work hard, but I can’t make it to save a cent. It’s not easy in this country these days,” Dasrath said.
Meanwhile, Pandit Sugrim, speaking from New Jersey, said that the Mission will be doing more projects like these.
He said that the Mission, instead of handing out donations to persons who would have the same needs a few months later, will be teaching persons how to help themselves. The Mission, he stated, is prepared to help persons get on their feet and better their own lives, rather than them (the persons) depending on welfare handouts from charitable organizations.
Pandit Sugrim thanked the Diaspora in the United States who have contributed largely to these humanitarian projects.
The organization will soon erect a massive benevolent home at Port Mourant, Corentyne, which is expected to cost US$100,000. The facility is expected to house over 300 battered and abused women and children, seniors and orphans. (Leon Suseran)
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