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Here, there is no caste and there is no religion…
Ageing is common…
And now it is the turn of temple to take care of the elderly…..by providing shelter and food...
Kerala temple opens its doors to hundreds of elderly whose children can’t or won’t care for them
374 men and women, many of whose children can’t or won’t take care of them, find succour in the Oachira Parabrahma temple
Five years ago, 80-year-old Raman suddenly found himself destitute and utterly helpless when his wife and three children shut the doors of their Varkala home to him. With nowhere to go, Raman turned to the police and managed to reenter the house with their help. But his ordeal had not ended. He was completely ignored by the rest of the family, who would not even give him a drop of water to drink.
Seeing no other way out, Raman went to the Oachira Parabrahma temple in Kollam district, to join scores of other destitutes like him. “If I continued to stay there, I would have starved to death,” he says of his family home.
Like Raman, there are 374 other elderly men and women living here at the Oachira Parabrahma temple. They come not only from various parts of the state, but even from other states, and are accommodated in this temple on the border of Alappuzha district, irrespective of caste and religion.
Of the 374 people, the Temple Administrative Committee has constructed a special shelter for 30 of the oldest and sickest men and women. The others live in small tents scattered across the 40 acres of temple property, sleeping in its concrete pandal (roofed, open hall) during the night. The temple has given them access to the pay and use toilet on the premises, and they use the temple pond for bathing each morning.
Moreover, says 82-year-old Thamarakshan from Wayanad, they receive kanji (rice gruel) and tea in the morning, and a cup of tea and dinner each evening. Unlike Raman, Thamarakshan chooses to live at the temple because he doesn’t want to burden his daughters, he says.
Read more at: http://www.thenewsminute.com/articl...whose-children-can-t-or-won-t-care-them-62170
Ageing is common…
And now it is the turn of temple to take care of the elderly…..by providing shelter and food...
Kerala temple opens its doors to hundreds of elderly whose children can’t or won’t care for them
374 men and women, many of whose children can’t or won’t take care of them, find succour in the Oachira Parabrahma temple
Five years ago, 80-year-old Raman suddenly found himself destitute and utterly helpless when his wife and three children shut the doors of their Varkala home to him. With nowhere to go, Raman turned to the police and managed to reenter the house with their help. But his ordeal had not ended. He was completely ignored by the rest of the family, who would not even give him a drop of water to drink.
Seeing no other way out, Raman went to the Oachira Parabrahma temple in Kollam district, to join scores of other destitutes like him. “If I continued to stay there, I would have starved to death,” he says of his family home.
Like Raman, there are 374 other elderly men and women living here at the Oachira Parabrahma temple. They come not only from various parts of the state, but even from other states, and are accommodated in this temple on the border of Alappuzha district, irrespective of caste and religion.
Of the 374 people, the Temple Administrative Committee has constructed a special shelter for 30 of the oldest and sickest men and women. The others live in small tents scattered across the 40 acres of temple property, sleeping in its concrete pandal (roofed, open hall) during the night. The temple has given them access to the pay and use toilet on the premises, and they use the temple pond for bathing each morning.
Moreover, says 82-year-old Thamarakshan from Wayanad, they receive kanji (rice gruel) and tea in the morning, and a cup of tea and dinner each evening. Unlike Raman, Thamarakshan chooses to live at the temple because he doesn’t want to burden his daughters, he says.
Read more at: http://www.thenewsminute.com/articl...whose-children-can-t-or-won-t-care-them-62170
