[www.keralites.net] 83 Homes and Counting: Retired Teacher Dr MS Sunil Gifts the Homeless What They Need Most :-
83 Homes and Counting: Retired Teacher Dr MS Sunil Gifts the Homeless What They Need Most :-
57-year-old Dr MS Sunil distinctly recalls the day she visited her student Asha's house. It was 2005, and the now-retired zoology teacher was then in-charge of National service scheme programme at Pathanamthitta Catholicate college.
In this middle of a purampokku land (piece of land common to all), stood a makeshift plastic shed that Asha called home.
After she lost her parents, her grandmother struggled to raise Asha and make ends meet.
"Today Asha is working as a teacher. She married an army man. She bought a car that she drives to school every day and her daughter is studying in Kendriya Vidyalaya," says Dr Sunil.
One turn of events not only changed Asha's life but also Dr Sunil's.
There was no going back after 2005. Till date, she has successfully constructed and handed over 83 houses to people living in deplorable conditions.
Each home has an area of 450 sq. Feet and is equipped with one bedroom, a hall, kitchen, a sit out area and a toilet. The roof is made of galvanized iron sheets. Some families are also gifted solar lamps and LED bulbs to save electricity consumption and costs. The average time required to build these homes takes anywhere between 30 to 35.days.
Dr Sunil also conducts other activities like providing food and clothes to tribals, arranging medical camps, building tribal huts etc. Till date, she has constructed 28 tribal huts, donated over 100 digital hearing aids and 278 wheelchairs to marginalised persons personally through visits, donated free spectacles to senior citizens, school stationery to over a thousand students.
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Posted by: Ravi Narasimhan <ravi.narasimhan.in@gmail.com>
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