A 97 years old Sikh lady is feeding Landon’s homeless People's
A 97 years old Sikh lady is feeding Landon’s homeless-a the leading news channel reported recently. In her small kitchen in London 97 Years old Nisharat Kaur Matharu is feeding the homeless and living her motto –“as long as you can- serve others”. She is doing it since 2017 through a community initiative named- “Hope for south hall street homeless”. She first arrived in the UK as a 54 years old mother of 5 in 1976. By then she had already seen much misery in her life. She was born in Punjab and when she was 6 months old she lost her mother. Her father remarried and when she was 2 years old her stepmother left her. She was then taken to her parental grandmother’s house. Other girls of her age used to go to school whereas she used to do household chores as child laborers. Nisharat was married to a 16 years old boy from an Indian family living in East Africa. A few years after marriage she shifted to East Africa with her husband, who was working as an electrician there. There she used to take care of her husband’s family particularly his father, who was handicapped due to polio. She lived there for 40 years giving birth to 5 children, then one day she was told that they would be moving to the UK because her husband had a British passport on account of his father having served in the British Army, but would lose it if he did not move there. As she had followed her husband's orders since now, this was also followed by her without asking any questions. They arrived in South hall, an area with the largest Sikh, Hindu, and Muslim populations in London. It was hard for her to adjust to the language, culture, and loneliness of the place. In spite of all these difficulties in Life Nisharat follows Guru’s teaching of selfless service. She is of the opinion that nobody should be without basic necessities like food. She is being praised in London by people.
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