Ng Jun Sen of the New Paper, Singapore reports:
Bank Account with $300,000 = Empty.
Joy in Heart for Helping Kids = Full.
Singaporean quits Civil Engineering job to setup shelter in India.
Most landlords rent out their flats to make money. But not Singaporean Ravi Rai Manas, 51. The $2,000 he collects monthly from his three-room flat in Clementi (Singapore) and donations that he gets, help pay for five child shelters in India. The shelters house 200 homeless, abandoned or impoverished children.
The money is also used for their medical fees, and provides vocational training courses, and counselling services for another 400 children who drop by every year but do not live in Mr. Rai’s shelters.
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Hi Ravi, the next time when you come back to Singapore, can I introduce to you my dear friend, Ben Tan, also an engineer like you. But he is a safety and eco-engineer by profession. He has many eco-concepts which he is willing to share with you so that you can see how to use them in India. Also, I want to introduce to you another of my dear friend, Stephen Rangba, an Indian but of Naga descent who is now based in Bangalore. He just like you is full of compassion for the abandoned children in India. He married an Indian lady who was once a student nurse under his training in English. As for me, I am now trying to connect up with a long lost friend, Elizabeth who was once my secondary school classmate in Tanjong Katong Girls’ Secondary School in the 1960′s (1968 – 1970). A lovely Indian girl from India but I really don’t know which state she came from. By her name, she must be a Christian and she has a sweet, compassionate heart. Let me track her down through the school’s records. Once I get her contact in India, I will make a trip to visit you, Stephen and Elizabeth. That will be great for me. No doubt I don’t have the calling to do
anything great like what you did in India, but I wish to contribute my part in connecting, in teaching Arts & Craft and also in the teaching of the English and Chinese Languages. Let us keep connected. (From Evelyn Tan Hoon Ngoh, Singapore). Cheers! 10 March 2014.