ASIA/TAIWAN - In India twenty three teachers from Fu Ren Catholic University share experience of voluntary work at the Home for the Dying in Calcutta

Tai Pai (Agenzia Fides) - “Doing little things with lots of love” was how Professor Chen Shao Hua of the Law Faculty of Fu Ren Catholic University described his experience in India shared with over 70 volunteers and social pastoral workers recently in Calcutta. Tai Pei Christian Life Weekly, reports that 23 teachers of Fu Ren Catholic University spent 10 days of Summer holiday, 28 August to 2 September working at the Home for the Dying in Calcutta, India, opened by Blessed Mother Teresa. For a week priests, religious and lay people and teachers at faculties of law, psychology, public administration and medicine worked as volunteers at the home washing and feeding the dying, helping the disabled to move around, washing dishes, designed clothes for women of the Poor House …. But all felt they received much more than they gave as professor Chen Mei Qin said: “we only did a little, but we received so much moral support and gratitude. A smile was reward enough … Like all those who spend some time here, we experienced what it means to meet angels”.
(NZ) (Agenzia Fides 03/11/2006 Righe: 22 Parole: 240)