December 13

The poor people whom we gather each day are those whom society rejects and abandons. People do not think that the poor can be treated as people like you or I. We try to give human dignity back to them. One day a young boy, 15 or 16 years old, came crying and begged me to give him some soap. I knew the family of that boy was rich and had become poor. He said to me: "My sister goes to high school and every day she is sent back because her sari is not washed and we do not have soap to wash it. Please give me some soap so that she can wash her sari and she can go to school and finish her education." Now we see the humiliation the family had to suffer because they were poor.