Mangalore: Eminent Social Worker organizes ‘A day with Cheshire Home Inmates’

By Valerian John, Bendur, Mangalore
Bellevision Media Network

Mangalore, 30 January 2012:  Jossy Albert Rego (Ex-Kuwait),  an eminent  social worker and a musician sponsored and organized an event called “A Day with Cheshire Home Inmates”, at Kankanady, Mangalore on Sunday,  January 29, 2012 from 11 am. 

 

The event started at 11 am by an opening prayer by Mrs. Jacinta Pinto Shirthady. Thirty five inmates of the Cheshire Home and the invited guests enjoyed a good game of Bingo (housie) and the winners where awarded cash prizes by the sponsor Jossy Albert Rego. 

 

Being a good musician and singer, Jossy Albert Rego and two other musicians, F. M. Lobo and Herman J Pereira played various Hindi, English as well as Konkani songs which entertained everyone who were present there. Splendid food was served which satisfied everyone’s taste buds.

  

Jossy Albert Rego (Second from left)

Cheshire Homes were started by Lord Cheshire in England, and the cornerstone for the Cheshire  Home at Kankanady, behind Fr. Muller’s Hospital was laid in 1965. Cheshire Homes have been serving people with several disabilities, making them realize the skills they are unaware of and is striving to make them self-sufficient by teaching them card, soap and candle-making, stitching and even basic computer knowledge. 

 

Various organizations and individual social workers such as Jossy Albert Rego occasionally visit the Cheshire Home and attempt to spread happiness and joy among the inmates by spending some time with them.