SURREY – A Punjab-based humanitarian Dr. Naurang Singh Mangat will be visiting Surrey from September 20 to 25 (noon). During his visit, he will be staying at Canadian Singh Sabha Gurdwara, Surrey.
For the last 13 years he has been looking after and trying to save lives of the destitute, homeless, blind, disabled, mentally challenged and poor sick people lying on the roadsides and other places in Punjab.
Since 2005 for many years, Dr. Mangat pedaled his bicycle on the roads of slum areas of Ludhiana city and saved the lives of numerous homeless sick lying on the roadsides. His untiring efforts to help the homeless and the sick have taken the shape of a well-known Punjab charity called “Guru Amar Das Apahaj Ashram”. Its two-storey building is located near village Sarabha of Ludhiana district. It is a registered and Charitable Trust with whole property in the name of the Trust.
To date, nearly 200 homeless patients were admitted in the Ashram. After medical treatment, many were rehabilitated. However, about 75-80 patients are living in the Ashram permanently. Of these about 20-22 are bedridden and unable to answer the call of nature on their own. Some have total memory loss. All patients living in the Ashram are provided food, clothes, medical treatment, nursing care and other necessities of life FREE OF COST.
Dr. Mangat who is a former Professor and Scientist of PAU, Ludhiana, University of Windsor, and Morrison Scientific Inc. Calgary said that on completion of two remaining floors of the building, the Ashram would be able to house hundreds of such needy people in the future. For more information, he can be reached at his cell phone 403-401-8787 or at [email protected], or one can visitwww.apahajashram.org.
