Dear Editor,

It behoves me as one who is thrilled by humanitarian efforts to congratulate the team at Three Rivers Kids Foundation for doing an awesome job on behalf of the Guyanese community. I have known this foundation for a while, and had the pleasure of meeting the doctor from India who performs surgeries on our children suffering with congenital heart disease.

Recently I met with some of the children and parents travelling to India via Toronto and found the humility in their eyes and the gratitude in their demeanour for receiving this gift from people who care, regardless of race, religion and country.

Kudos to our sister in humanity Jeanette Singh for taking it upon herself to travel with these many children and their guardians on such a life-critical trip; she hasn’t had one loss among fifty-five cases in the last five years. While it maybe cheaper in Guyana to do such an operation, the lack of resources and willingness to harness these seem to be at the bottom of things. It costs five thousand dollars in India while in North America the cost would have been ten times more.

Can’t neighbouring countries with such facilities come to the rescue of these children, many of whom live like this for years, apart from others?

Again, may those who donate be enriched and those who are in need be given succour and those who have taken it upon themselves to save children always be blessed.

Yours faithfully,
Habeeb Alli