Guyanese man in Jamaica
(Jamaica Observer) Caring for the less fortunate is second nature for Eusa Samuels, a Guyanese who relocated to Jamaica 13 years ago.
In fact, when the real estate professional moved to the island in 2005 and saw the desolate conditions under which some of the nation’s elderly lived, he broke down and cried.
Samuels, who settled in Bog Walk, St Catherine and was later joined by his family, could not ignore the silent pleas for help from the poor and abandoned members of the community, including the elderly.
The founder and president of HELP (Helping Each Life Progress) Outreach Foundation Limited, said there were two needy elderly people who inspired him to start the charitable organisation.
“When I came here I saw an elderly lady, she has passed away now, but she was living alone. She had been abandoned… when I go to her home, she would call me ‘paason’; she couldn’t see me because she was blind, but I couldn’t convince her differently that I was just an ordinary person in the community.
“And there was another guy, he, too, has passed. I swear to you, how he was living, this thing moved me in such a way that my family has never seen me cry… but I shed tears like a baby,” Samuels recounted to the Jamaica Observer. “I committed from there on [to help]. Sometimes it is tough, but we keep pushing; we must go on because there is need.”
When asked to expound on the conditions of the two senior citizens, he said: “[The lady] was living in a little shack, and the most difficult part was when we were leaving… because she would start to cry.
“… While her condition was bad, [the man’s] condition was worse. He was in a quad by himself, no door. The only thing that was there, was a zinc frame. We went there in the en wa we lik na lar hi
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