Highlights
- International student facing financial hardship due to pandemic says the act of kindness "changed my life"
- Two men at the Hoppers Crossing Gurudwara in Melbourne returned Mr Dwiwedi's call for help
- "This is my way of expressing gratitude to these god-sent men," says Mr Dwivedi
Life’s gift to all of us often comes in the least expected ways. For Mr Dwivedi that moment came last week, in the middle of a pandemic, when he was forced to shift out of his home, laid-off from his job and ran out of his cash reserve.
That’s when his mother back home in the western Indian state of Gujarat encouraged him to reach out to a Sikh temple in the vicinity. Quoting his mum, the 26-year-old says: “She said, a gurudwara will never turn you down.”
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