Mangalore: 50-year-old Corrine Rasquinha feeds the city and believes no one should go hungry

Mangalore, 22 Oct 2012 (TOI): When most people in the city rush home after a day’s work, 50-year-old Corrine Rasquinha goes to railway stations, bus stops and other places in search of the poor and the hungry and serves them free food. For the past 18 years, this has been the routine of this political science postgraduate.

 

Every day she serves free food to poor patients in government hospitals and over 60 labourers who come to the city in search of greener pastures.

 

A breast cancer and Hepatitis B survivor, Rasquinha visits hospitals and interacts with cancer patients to help them overcome their fear of death. She also provides financial assistance to children battling cancer, helps them complete their education and also pays medical bills of several poor patients.

 

To carry forward her activities she founded White Doves, a non-governmental organization. The NGO runs two homes for the destitute in the district and at present, it gives shelter, food and medical treatment to 85 people. Rasquinha also takes time out to reunite the destitute with their families. So far, she has reunited 45 persons with their families in Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal, Kolkata and other places.

 

With the help of like-minded people she has built six houses for the poor and two more houses are under construction.