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NGO adopts 2 cancer-hit children
Rajay Deep
Tribune News Service

Bathinda, February 12
Nearly six months after the plight of a family afflicted by cancer at Gehri Devi Nagar village of Bathinda district was highlighted in these columns, the Global Cancer Concern India (GCCI), an NGO, has come forward to lend a helping hand.
The NGO today adopted two children suffering from the disease and would bear expenses of their education too.
The family has lost two members to cancer, while five members, including four children, have lost one eye each to the disease. All cancer-afflicted children, in age group of 1-2 years, had problem of eyes. Following doctors’ recommendation their eye balls had to be removed.
The NGO, patron of which is Gursharan Kaur, wife of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, today thanked The Tribune for highlighting the family’s plight headlined , ‘Water pollution hits this Malwa family in the eye’ on August 6 last year. “After reading about the tragedy, we were in touch with them,” said Sukhdeep Gill, senior general manager of the GCCI.
He said the NGO would give Rs 1,000 to the family every month for school fee of Harmander Singh and Kiran Deep Kaur, students of class VI and IV, respectively. The amount would later be increased when they pursue higher studies
In this children of Kendriya Vidyalya No 4 of Bathinda cantonment also played important role. Motivated by recent lecture session organised by the NGO in their school, the children collected money to help the affected family.
Gill today organised a function in the school to honour children for the contribution towards this cause. Rupees 36,527 collected by the children was handed over the NGO. Emotional Joginder Singh, a member of the family, thanked the children and the NGO. “Doctors have said my niece Amrit Pal Kaur, who is just four , would not be able to survive long.”