Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
AHMEDABAD, INDIA, June 27, 2010: Khimjibhai Prajapati, 64 and a beggar in Mehsana for a decade, a few days ago donated clothes to 11 poor hearing and speech-impaired girls at the Shrimati Kesarbai Kilachand School for the Deaf, to the astonishment of the school’s staff.
It was the first time ever that a beggar had walked into the school to share his savings. An unkempt Khimjibhai in tattered, unwashed clothes, limped through the school gates on crutches and placed the brand new clothes in the hands of 11 eager girls. He had used his savings of around US$65 to buy the clothes.
Khimjibhai begs outside the Simandhar Swami Jain Temple in Mehsana and outside the Hanuman Temple. “I just need two meals a day and some money to send back to my ailing wife in Rajkot. Apart from this, whatever I earn I use to buy food for poor, hungry people. Since a long time I wished to do something for girls and I am happy to donate for them,” he said.