Felicitas – our well wisher visits us in Patna
Dr. Felicitas Roelofsen, a retired cancer surgeon from Germany has been visiting India for the past 50 years bearing her own expenses, visiting remote backward places in the North to the South reaching out to most vulnerable people with herbal medicines, treating malaria, HIV Aids. Her research in Artemisia is also opening the door to organize training women in these areas and preparing them to take care of their health.
She spent a week with us Patna, as she is also a member of our Aashray Abhiyan family and takes deep interest in our work. Visiting the settlements, offering her expertise in the area of health, she is quick to identify those who suffer from malnutrion, anemia. Her passion to share her knowledge keeps her engaged with the community and they eagerly listen to her.
As she moves to the areas where we work, she is also welcomed warmly among the community and some of the women are delighted with the sharing of her knowledge. This time she had a desire to meet some of the sisters with whom we worked together with; so they travelled from Allahabad, Basti and Nawada to spend a day with her. Being a lay spinster she inspires us as she even nearing to 80 takes long journeys by trains and reaches out faithfully to those who are in need.
It only proves her deep commitment to share her knowledge and to be at the service of the ones who are in need, doing this for 50 years is something amazing. It is our good fortune that she is associated with us, we are blessed to have he in our company each year.