Wednesday, September 21, 2011

A beautiful heart

How many of you ever thought of donating your organs for other? Or have you ever come across any such person?

Let me introduce you here a 19-year old woman who is willing to donate one of her kidneys. That’s also for free! Suffice it to say, she’s doing something quite out of the extraordinary to bring difference in other’s life.

Believe it!
                                  Pic: Yewong with Executive Director of BKA

Yewong Lhasel Wangmo is her good name. A divorcee and single mother of three-year old kid, she runs her own handicraft shop in the Paro Town. She is a Bumthap.

Just a week ago, she impressed me and all the committed members of the Bhutan Kidney Association (BKA). The BKA is a public benefit non-governmental organization (will be certified very soon) founded by Mr. Tashi Namgay (Executive Director), a civil servant and kidney transplant recipient since 2005. The young single mother smsed the Executive Director (ED):
I am Yewong Lhasel Wangmo from Paro and I am 19 years old. I got your phone number from Tandin Bidha's facebook page [film actor, also committed member of BKA] and I read about the Bhutan Kidney Association. I am very proud of you guys taking such a noble initiative-a big responsibility and helping others. I am also very much interested to help others so I just want to tell you guys that if there’s any kidney failure patient with B+ve blood group, let me know. I am always ready to donate one of my kidneys.
Amongst the members of the association, a sense of awe and homage was born that contained so much to admire Yewong’s unshakable devotion to donate her organ to help other.

After a few days, all the way from Paro, Yewong arrived at Changjiji in Thimphu to meet the Executive Director to assure the association that she’s genuine and that‘d virtually guaranteed her breakthrough decision to donate her organ. After their meeting, on the BKA facebook page, the ED wrote:
Today I met a wonderful human, Yewong Lhasel Wangmo. We had tête-à-tête for an hour about the current situation of the kidney-related issues in Bhutan. She is very confident to donate one of her kidneys. She is the first Bhutanese who volunteered and came to me for organ donation. And she left a message, "If anyone needs my kidney (B+ve) then please call me".
This message of hers is heavily weighted with an inexhaustible treasure-house of compassion and divinity. Perhaps more tellingly, there hasn’t the faintest ounce of hesitation in giving away her organ. She has inherited what has been pure and noble-the hugest of sacrifice, the greatest of inspiration.

Yewong is the pioneer who has demystified a hoodoo spell of Bhutanese being very reluctant to donate our organs. Her act of bodhisattva has now undoubtedly injected in our otherwise vaingloriously obsessed minds a fair dose of helping other altruistically, even with our own body parts. Because she already knew there are many who need our excess organs.

When asked what the intent behind donating her organ is, she replies, “Till now I haven’t done anything good, so now I want to do something which makes me feel proud  and  I want to save other’s lives . I would donate my kidney for free. Peace!” Also, she always encourages other to help those underprivileged and needy. She believes she is undone and won’t be happy until she could bring difference in other’s lives.

Long live Yewong!

18 comments:

  1. ohh wow, imean i have no comments. she is just amazing. no compassion compares to the heart of this young lady. realized that i have so much more to learn :))

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  2. wonderful........ may god bless her..:)

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  3. Wow, really wonderful. She has a heart beyond description... It's just too amazing. May god bless her always. Love Live Yeewong. Greatest of all the hearts...

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  4. this act is beyond the reach of ordinary human, i heard this type of deeds in the stories of Bodhisattvas...

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  5. Ohh wow!!! No doubt that she is the kindest of the human kind and really very brave:)

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  6. I will always love that kind woman. May she live long and continue spreading the rayus of love and compassion to all. Good write up, Riku.

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  7. no words....heads off to such a beautiful person...:)

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  8. No doubt, she is an Angel from heaven.

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  9. Long Live Yewong and may God bless you...

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  10. simply altruistic....Love you Yeewong! May Koen Chog Sum bless you!!!

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  11. I am wordless to describe her compassion... wish you happy life Yeewong.

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  12. its hard to find good people around. Hats up for your compassion yeewong.

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  13. I am sure altruism is good thing. But i think its not very smart to donate your kidney. If you can't lover yourself, there's no way you can love others

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  14. May god bless the beautiful young lady. Surely she will make a big difference in life. Long Live Yewong....

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  15. Salute to Yeewong's bravery and compassion. Such people like you will live long in our hearts.

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  16. oh god! i never thought a living human can have such a heart. Truly its a wonderful......may you live as long as you want.

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