FOLLOWING IS AN APPEAL MADE BY FR MELVIN PINTO SJ-THE VICE PRESIDENT OF SACAA AND RECTOR OF ST ALOYSIUS INSTITUTIONS:
The management has been able to initiate several proactive schemes and projects with the generosity and goodwill of all of you during the first wave. Your unstinted support and gestures of magnanimity have resulted in truly gratifying outcomes addressing many of the grievous issues and concerns affecting the victims and their dear ones to a large extent. Taking a serious note of the unprecedented surge of the pandemic in its second wave affecting millions of our brothers and sisters, MJES has launched a novel project in collaboration with SACAA, the Alumni Association in the form of creating the ‘St Aloysius Covid Care Centre’ operating from the College campus.
This will consist of the Help Desk with specific helplines to attend to the specific Covid related concerns of people of the Mangaluru city and its surroundings. The detailed services to be addressed through the help desks have been identified and staff, students and alumni have enrolled as volunteers to facilitate the services to the affected people. The volunteers of the Care Centre will be equipped with the support material on Oxygen concentrators, oxygen Cylinders, food kits and other necessary medical support material for the immediate and -“emergency needs of patients and their near ones.
As the management has decided to go all out to support our fellow men and women going through one of the gravest sufferings, it is imperative that we garner enough financial resources to reach out to as many of our suffering brothers and sisters. We look forward to your strong support in our endeavour to fulfil our mission to spread the culture of care among all stakeholders. As we remain ever grateful to you for your continued collaboration in all the projects related to assisting and empowering our less fortunate brethren, we seek your wholehearted support in all the activities of the Covid Care Centre launched by the management along with the alumni association.
Let us come together to combat the challenges posed by the deadly virus and help in its mitigation. Time has come to demonstrate our solidarity with the suffering humanity. As we empathize and responded to the plights of the migrant labourers during the first wave by providing nutritious food costing approximately Rs.900/- per food kit, we would like to continue the same during the second wave too. I am sure, there would be hundreds of such daily wage earners and migrant labourers languishing in the streets, bus and railway shelters waiting for our success. The expensive and most required apparatuses related to Oxygen would cost us enormously as we aspire to reach out to every single affected person that comes in contact with us.
I wish God’s abundant blessings on you and your families and wish that you stay safe and take extreme cautions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. I request you to generously contribute to this noble cause to Mangalore Jesuit Educational Society (MJESl. The Bank Account details are given below:
Name of the Account: MJES Institution Development Fund
Account Number: 0045053000057600
Name of the Bank: South Indian Bank, Hampankatta, Mangaluru
IFSC Code: SIBL0000046
MICR Code: 575059002
You are specially remembered during our special prayers during the pandemic. May God keep you in the hollow of his hands and protect you always
In conclusion, according to Mathew 25:35-36, “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, ….”, we should know that giving is something done voluntarily. Giving should not be done under compulsion, coercion, duress, or conviction. There are some exceptions, of course. When you do give, you are to give what you have chosen in your heart. Those who take pity on those less fortunate than us are true neighbours and caregivers.
Knowing that you have helped make someone else’s life a little brighter and better is a special feeling and one that will last with you for a long time. And in our world of plenty, we can spread a smile of joy. So if you are looking for a way to enhance your act of sharing and giving experience, try giving back now. Let’s give to the less fortunate, ashrams, non-profit organizations, needy families and children, and others a feeling of hope, and make a difference in their lives. And now you can donate part of your wealth to the St Aloysius Covid Care Centre, to help the persons during the pandemic crisis. Open your hearts and give generously to a good cause and make a difference in the lives of these less fortunate. I end this column with thought-provoking words of Saint Mother Teresa:
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. At the end of life, we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in. I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. A life not lived for others is not a life. Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
In case of any help regarding the concerns mentioned above, the persons concerned can contact the following numbers created for specific purposes: CALLS WILL BE TAKEN BETWEEN 9 am and 5 pm
Aloysius Covid care Centre (Help Desk 1) 7204313231; Aloysius Covid Care Centre (Help Desk 2),: 72O4432353
MANOTHEJAKA Helpline/s: 8762585440. manothejaka@gmail
Counselling Services (Contact 1) 9995031182
Counselling services (Contact 2): 9048409985
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