NOT CHARITY, LOOK AT DONOR'S HEART

In this current Pandemic situation many Nations are helping each other with all possible supplies. We all know that last 2 months were very critical in India. We also received many critical medical supplies from Leading countries like Russia, Israel, France, The US, Germany, UAE and others.

Kenya is among the helping hands which has donated 12 tons of food products including tea, coffee, and groundnut to Indian Red Cross Society as part of its COVID-19 relief efforts.

I as a Citizen of India welcome this effort and I am overwhelmed by such kind gesture of our Kenyan brothers and sisters.

However, this heart winning gesture was looked down upon many people who ridiculed the east African country for gifting food products to India. Some social media users even referred to Kenya as a “poor country”, “beggar country” and also called out to India for accepting such gifts.

 I am sure all of you are aware of The US, Manhattan, World Trade Centre, Osama Bin Laden. But, what many of you are not aware of is-

Maasai Village, which falls on the border of Kenya and Tanzania and the local people are known as “Maasai”.

It took several months for the news of the 9/11 attacks on America to reach the Maasai people. The news reached him when Kimeli Naoma, a Stanford University medical student who lived in a nearby town, came back to Kenya on vacation and told the local tribe of the Maasai about 9/11.

A building could be so high that one would die if fell from it, it was unbelievable for the Maasai people living in the hut, but still they felt the grief of the Americans and, through the same medical student they sent a letter to Deputy Chief William Brangick of American Embassy in Nairobi capital of Kenya. After reading the letter William Brangick boarded the first flight and then followed several miles of broken road to reach the village of the Maasai tribe.

On reaching the village, the Maasai tribe gathered and took 14 cows in a row and reached the deputy chief of the US embassy. An elderly masseuse pointed at a plank holding the rope tied to the cows on the hands of the deputy chief. Do you know what was written on that plank? It was written - "We are donating these cows to help the people of America in this hour of grief". Yes, after reading that letter, the ambassador of the world's most powerful and prosperous country had walked hundreds of miles to take donation of fourteen cows.

Due to the difficulty and legal obligation to transport the cows, the cows were unable to move but were offered to buy a Maasai ornament instead of 14 cows and put it in the 9/11 Memorial Museum. When this matter reached the common citizens of America, then you know what happened? They insisted on taking a cow instead of jewellery. Online petitions were signed that they don’t want jewellery, they want the cows, emails were written to officials, politicians were talked to. Millions of Americans thanked the Maasai tribe and the people of Kenya for this unprecedented love, thanked them and congratulated them.

Please accept 12 tons of grain. (And curse the incompetent that he has brought this condition.) Not charity, look at the donor's heart, not the pebbles, look at the reverence of the squirrel who lifts the pebbles and puts them on the bridge (Ram Setu).

Thank You people of Maasai.

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