Truly, poverty of the heart is what afflicts most of us. I have never felt that as strongly, until I saw this video. Watching this video has definitely humbled me, and made me take a good strong look at myself. For those who truly want to help, they help, inspite of all hardships. For the rest, its a daily littany of whines, goal statements and spelling out of human greed [not wants]. I definitely fall into the second category of greed, rants, and whines.
Im thankful to my friend Shakti Shenoy, for this link! (I always believed that you meet a person for a definite spiritual reason)
The video is a program that identifies a Citizen Hero. The protagonist is a person called Hajabba from a small village off Mangalore, (my home town), called Nyupadpu.
Some would dismiss him as just another illiterate fruit seller, but, 47-year-old Hajabba’s life is a lesson in inspiration.
Hajabba, who built a school to educate over a 100 children in his
village near Mangalore, was honoured by Karnataka Governor Rameshwar
Thakur after he saw the fruit seller’s story on CNN-IBN.
Thakur awarded Hajabba and gave him a citation at the Raj Bhawan on
Republic Day. Not just that, a leading Kannada newspaper, Kannada
Prabha, also named him the man of the year and gave him a cash reward
of Rs 1 lakh.
Hajjaba, who was featured first on CNN-IBN as a Citizen Hero, built his school at a nondescript hamlet called Nyupadpu.
His only source of funds was the money he made from selling oranges and some meager funds from the gram panchayat.
After more than 12 long years of sweat and toil his dream finally bore fruit. But Hajjaba has even bigger plans now.
“I earn about Rs 60 to Rs 100 everyday. I also have to feed my five
family members but I want the children of my village to be educated. I
want them to get computer education. Now the government has approved
for a high school here and I am very happy,” Hajabba said.
Source:Mangalorean.com