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The charity presents gifts to poor patients at Hoai Nhon Psychiatric Hospital. Photo H.X |
Doing charitable works is to help unhappy lives. That’s the outlook on life of Buddhist followers working at the charity under Binh Dinh Province Buddhist Sangha’s Executive Board. Practising charity helps them feel peaceful.
Useful for life
At 8 o’clock, many poor and disable people came to the charity to receive presents (5 kg of rice for each).
Among them, Hai and Hong are a couple who both suffers from inborn paralysis, earning their living by selling lottery tickets.
“We got married because of being in the same boat,” Hong said. “We unavoidably face difficulties in our life for both are disabled.”
Receiving the presents, Hai felt moved. “I partly feel consoled when receiving the others’ help,” he said.
Many poor people who faced difficulties received the emergency aid from the charity, including Nguyen Nhat, a building worker with broken spinal column; Nguyen Thi Hanh, whose daughter was drowned in a flood; Pham Thi Thanh Thuy, who had a heart surgery.
“Apart from emergency aid for specific cases, the charity often visits and presents gifts to disadvantaged families and social sponsoring center on the occasion of Buddhist traditional festivals and events,” the charity’s secretary, Ho Dac Hung, said.
We coordinated with other charities to offer relief aid to flood victims and underprivileged people last year, Hung added.
The donations come from Buddhist followers, both domestically and abroad, and those who have hearts of gold. Much or little, most are ready to help.
Practising charity, enjoying good fortune
In the charitable activity, I saw a woman in deep blue clothes asking disadvantaged people and presenting them a small sum of money.
“Buddhism is to save people from misfortune,” she said. “I come anywhere there are the needy.”
“My health is my wealth; thus, I should share something with unhappy people,” she smiled.
The 61-year-old Nguyen Thi Kinh is also a woman who shows great enthusiasm for charitable works. She has come to any place to help needy people.
I saw her offering relief aid to flood victims in Phuoc Thuan, presenting gifts to orphans and disabled children at the province’s Social Sponsoring Center, and joining the free eye surgery program for poor people at Binh Dinh Eye Hospital.
“Do you feel tired?” I asked. “I only feel happy as I help them,” she said. “Practising charity means enjoying good fortune.”
Kinh has four children who now have their own homes. They helped her have a comfortable life. “I has a good fortune,” she said.
She has, therefore, save a little to help the needy for the past few years. When I was talking with her, she had a phone call, saying there was a poor patient having a brain surgery in Binh Dinh General Hospital. She excused me for stopping the talk and hurriedly went to the hospital to “see if they need help.”
70-year-old Vo Tan Loc said he’s participated in the charity for 16 years. All members of the charity always offer help to those in need.
“To effectively operate, the charity will have its own website opened, aiming to call on the help from people nationwide,” Hu said.
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