CHARITY CORNER
DIRECTOR OF HAPPICABS ESSEX DISTRIBUTES EMERGENCY ITEMS TO FLOOD VICTIMS IN PAKISTAN
Umar Hussain, Director of Happicabs Essex, together with Chaudhry Mohammad Riaz Sahib, President of Bright Hope Foundation Faisalabad (BHF), has been in Pakistan helping to distribute emergency
items to
flood victims across the country, purchased with the donations to his GoFundMe campaign. Umar sent PHTM this report: “Alhamdulillah, by the Grace of Allah Almighty. We are helping them in every possible way. May Allah ease hardships of the affected. May all this get over soon
and pray to Allah Almighty to impart them with all the strength to come out of these tough times. “February 6 2023: the seventh truck arrived from Faisalabad to Dera Ismail Khan Union Council, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. We
distributed warm clothes,
mosquito nets and one month ration to 380 families among the flood victims who blessed this caravan with immense prayers. “February 8 2023: The eighth truck of goods, Rashan, bedding and mosquito nets dis-patched by BHF to the flood victims of Zahir Pir district Rajanpur February 9 2023: The eighth truck reached the Indus river belt from Faisalabad to Rajanpur Tehsil, Kot Mithan, South Punjab. We distributed warm clothes, blankets, mosquito nets and a month ration to 225 families. The victims thanked the visitors.
LEEDS UBER DRIVER PICKED UP GRANNY IN TEARS AND HAS LOOKED AFTER HER EVER SINCE
A Leeds Uber driver “adopted a granny” who was in floods of tears in his cab, rather than dropping her home. Manzoor Khan, known as Manny, 66, has been looking after Patricia ‘Pat’ Wilde, 83, for more than nine years now. The Bradford man recounted how Pat was crying her eyes out after he picked her up from hospital as she’d lost her brother David and he felt compelled to look after her. Pat says she “loves” Manny and his family who she “trusts with her life”. All she has to do is push a buzzer and they’ll come to help. Manny, who’s a father-of-four and grandad-of-one, said: “She didn’t have any family. I said I would look after her and I’ve been looking after her ever since. I do almost everything for her, I take her to the doctors, I do her shopping, I look after her house, her bills and stuff
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like that. If she ever needs me, all she has ever got to do is give me a phone call. She is part of the family now, we adopted a grandma.” Pat said: “It feels as if I’ve got somebody I can trust and go to if I don’t feel well. Manny and his family have been very very good to me.” Manny spoke about the fateful journey from the hospital nine years ago when he first picked her up in his taxi. He said: “She was crying, and she said she’d lost her brother David. He’s all she had in the whole world. She didn’t have
any more family, no kids, no one. “I brought her to my home. I thought, I can’t drop this lady off and just say ‘Here you are love, see you later. I said to my wife her brother has passed away and she’ll be stopping with us for a while. We made her a pot of tea.” Pat said: “I thought it was very good of him. He took me to his home and gave me some chicken and chips. Rashmeen gave me a blanket and said I could stay there as long as I wanted.” Pat then stayed at Manny’s for six weeks. She bonded with Manny, Rashmeen and the kids. At the end of the initial six weeks Pat told Manny she intended to move back to her home. Manny, who by this point had grown a lot of affection for her, told her: “Loneliness is a disease and it will kill you. You don’t have to be poorly.”
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