A disabled man makes a road through a hill to make life easier for his family
News24xx.com - Melethuveettil Sasi from Kerala, India, became disabled after falling from a coconut tree when he was just 15 years old.
The fall left him with broken bones and a half-paralyzed body. He could only stay in bed for years, and his condition has left his family with almost nothing.
“I was good at climbing trees, but that day, somehow I slipped. One side of my body was paralysed. My legs and hands were broken. I spent days and months in bed, not even able to move,” Sasi recalled.
“It took years for me to even be able to stand up. But I wanted to walk somehow. So I slowly taught myself to walk,” he said.
Because of his disability, his children were not able to finish their studies and began working at an early age instead. To give back to his family, he sold lottery tickets in the hopes to buy a scooter to be able to support them.
He then filed a petition and asked for the help of Panchayat officers to create a road to his house, but everyone declined.
Realizing that no one wanted to support his cause, he picked up an axe and shovel to carve the road himself. He worked from 5 AM to 8:30 PM.
“I never thought about when I would finish the work. I was just determined to have a road. Every day, I would begin my work at 5am, then stop at around 8.30am when the day began to get hot, and resume the work at around 3.30pm or 4pm in the evening and work till the sun went down,” he said.
It took three years for Sasi to finally finish the road. Thanks to his hard work, his family and other people in his community can now access the town easily through the 200-meter road he built.
Given his condition, it is indeed impressive for someone to finish the unimaginable feat.
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