The coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdown brought out the best in some people. We have heard heartwarming stories of people giving up whatever they had to help those more unfortunate than them.?
In a beautiful gesture, 28-year-old Eric Anton Lobo and 27-year-old Merlin of Nandakhal village in Vasai, Maharashtra, celebrated their wedding day by donating 50 hospital beds and oxygen cylinders to the rural COVID-19 care centre in Satpala village, reported?Hindustan Times.?
¡°In a typical Christian wedding, around 2,000 guests attend and the event is incomplete without wine and good food. This costs a big packet. We decided to celebrate differently,¡± HT quoted Lobo as saying.
Given the restrictions set in place after the outbreak, only 22 guests reportedly attended the wedding and all adhered to social distancing norms by wearing a mask. Lobo pointed that many people in Palghar district have died during the pandemic and more that 1,500 have tested positive. So the couple decided to contribute in whatever way they could.?
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¡°We wanted to share our joy with fellow Vasai residents by helping provide better care for patients in hospitals,¡± he said.?With the help of local MLA Kshitij Thakur and? Dr Kailas Shinde, Palghar district collector, the couple managed to have the beds made.
According to the report, after the marriage ceremony, the couple went to the COVID care centre where the beds had already arrived.?
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Earlier, the couple helped out at the local community kitchen and also helped the government with lists of migrants from Vasai-Virar who wanted passage on Shramik special trains to return to their hometowns.
Eric and Merlin are just the kind of people this world needs.
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