Women do good without donations
BUKIT MERTAJAM: She carried the three-year-old girl and felt her body go tense.
“The little girl had so much fear in her,” said Dr Sneh Bhar, founding chairman of a social service group.
“I gave her toys to choose and she pointed at the one she wanted and took it. But she never said a word.
“She is so young and yet she is already in so much psychological distress,” said Dr Sneh,
Dr Sneh was one of several professionals who came together to form Neykta, which in Hindi means “works of good will”.
They visited the children of a home in Taman Sejahtera Alma yesterday, bringing with them toys, mattresses and food.
“We formed Neykta because we wanted to do good,” Dr Sneh said, adding that Neykta did not need to do fund-raising because its members would pitch in.
“Some of us are lawyers, some specialists and even ‘ super specialists’,” she said with a smile.
At the home, Dr Sneh said she met a 10-year-old boy and his sister, 12.
Their parents were drug addicts and the siblings had no identification papers, she said.
“Neykta will help them get their papers and see that they are enrolled in a school.
“The sister could speak good English and is quite intelligent, so we must help them get the opportunities they deserve,” she said.
Dr Sneh, who is a dentist as well as the chief executive officer of Bhar Dental Surgery, had pledged to give free dental examinations to the children.
Among the Neykta members who went with her to the home were advisor Ajeet Kaur, secretary Kulwant Kaur and committee members Vira Kapoor, Mehinder Kaur, Nishantel Kaur and Pritam Kaur.