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Giving back to Guyana
To give and let others live. For them to live through an opportunity for quality; quality of education, of wellbeing, of existence. A scarce opportunity, the tiniest of openings, the biggest of possibilities, with no limit to personal dreams and personal horizons. The Subraj Family Foundation makes living such dreams a reality.
Many excel at the sweet science of lip service. It is easy, it is cheap, it brings little by way of steadfast commitment. Lip service, like lip synching, (its pale, but closely related, Siamese imitation) is not the real thing.
There is absent the originality of uninhibited, overwhelming, perhaps unparalleled authenticity. But then there are the Subrajes of the world. It is a world all of their own.
Through their very visible, very active and generous foundation that the family makes Guyana better. It makes the trials and miseries of the nameless, faceless others–the less blessed–out there in the barren space of no man’s land, a less demanding, a shade more powerfully promising, and unquestionably brighter.
The Subrajes are the kinds of hearts that care; things start at that compassionate, unselfish crossroads: to give of self, so that others may live and learn to love what this life can hold. They are the kinds of hands that reach for those hurting from many a dreadful disease that plague and lay low with no respite in sight; something is extended and delivered.
Something to which there can be grasping when there is nothing else. They are the heads that envision unfettered soaring of the human spirit through the power of learning and climbing towards the pinnacle.
The sprawling facility at the University of Guyana stands as testimony to the Subrajes hearts and hands and heads.
For UG is today both monument and complex of care, healthcare, educational care, and one moment less of the worry and fear of the future, and that which comes from not falling short, and not knowing where to turn.
It starts with the Subrajes and people like them: Guyanese who remember, who look back, and who lift up. The record speaks loudly: where there is a will, there is a way. Things, which are perceived to be possible, are made to happen.
Many other successful, prosperous native sons and daughters of the Guyanese sod can look on and be moved to do so quietly, purposefully, tangibly. Look back and remember heritage, and give, so that others can have a chance to make something of themselves, despite the vagaries of fortunes and fate. Some have already doing just so, and for a long time. There is a crying need for others, for more.
As shared near to the beginning, on too many occasions, talk is the fleeting special of the day, and flavour of the month. From long practice, it has become of the bargain basement variety: abundant, shabby, and more than a little frail in the strength of its threads.
Talk is not binding, it is not empowering, it is not lasting; and especially for those who yearn for something different and on which to grasp, something on which to lean.
There is that something called a deed. It is a single word, and many of them make for a universe of action, and of the significances that translate of purpose towards the empowerment of the paltry and the impoverished.
One single deed has the embedded potential to transform one person, which could make a world of difference for a family, an extended community. It is of mentalities energized, spirits galvanized, and a world of unending possibilities realized.
Guyana and government and Guyanese owe a word-perhaps many-of appreciation for their efforts and goodwill here. This society can benefit enormously from the presence of more like them.
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