A HEART-WARMING OCTOBER

Oct 19, 2014 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

It has been dry and hot this month. October has been warm.
But the greatest warmth this October was not provided by the temperature and the weather. It was provided by a heart-warming story that appeared like an oasis in a desert in this week’s Kaieteur News. It was a touching story about a young, brilliant law graduate determined to fulfill her dreams and about fate that led her to two of the kindest and most generous men in Guyana, Nazar Mohamed and Glenn Lall.
This story of this young girl and the persons who came to her assistance to ensure that she was able to pursue her dreams of becoming a lawyer was a most uplifting story. Having graduated with exceptional honours from the law programme at the University of Guyana, this young student did not have the financial resources to complete her studies at law school in Trinidad. She went around asking for assistance but she was not able to secure the funds. Then one day she stumbled into the office of Nazar Mohamed, popularly known as ‘Shell’. He in turn got in contact with Glenn Lall. The rest is now history.
Glenn and Nazar came together and put up the money for the young lady to complete her law studies. This week she was admitted to the Bar and there to congratulate her were Nazar and Glenn. What a wonderful story!
This story is quite different from the narrative that the Guyana Times, the Guyana Chronicle and the PPP are attempting to paint about Glenn Lall. Over the past few weeks, all three have attempted to demonize and project him as a tax dodger.
Yet, here is a man who willingly gave away millions to help a young person fulfill her dreams. Not only that, but he supported her during her studies. Is this the same Glenn Lall whose character the anti- Kaieteur News elements in our society are seeking to besmirch? Yes, it is the same man.
It is not the first time that he has done this thing. He has done it many times before. Many others have benefitted from his kindness. The nice thing about this is that Glenn never seeks publicly for his efforts. He does not advertise his good deeds. He does not dispense kindness to get the publicity or public adulation. He helps people out of the goodness of his heart. If that law student was not admitted to the Bar this week, we would never have known that it was Glenn and Nazar who helped her.
Glenn has always been about helping people. He is not interested in material wealth. Money has never been his motivation. If tomorrow you meet him and push your hands in his pockets you will find that they are empty. You will not find any money in his pocket; not because he is broke, but because whenever he has money and he sees somebody in need he helps them.
He is a man that is easily moved by the suffering of others. Who can forget the millions that he raised in this country to help the victims of the Boxing Day tsunami, the earthquake in Pakistan and numerous other causes? There has been no other person in Guyana who has raised more money to help other people. People will give money to Glenn Lall to help other people because they know he will never convert it for his own personal benefit but will hand it all over and account for every cent received.
Yet today there are those who want to muzzle him and have him jailed because he is exposing what they are doing to this country. They want to destroy him, this good man who has done so much to help other people without seeking acclaim for his good deeds.
How many of those who are seeking to destroy him, have ever put their hands into their pockets to help persons in this country the way Glenn Lall has helped?
That young lawyer, I believe, will always be grateful for the assistance she received to help make her dream come true. She did not have the money to pursue the dream, but Glenn and Nazar made it possible.