10 yr-old boy donates his film earnings to Mother Theresa’s sisters

The UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald, usually provides us with the service each day of alerting us to a few interesting news items.  I check it every day. Here is one the editor, Luke Coppen, found on UCANews (a Catholic news agency covering mostly Asia and the Pacific).

Boy donates film earnings to MC sisters
Young Bengali actor’s generosity inspires

Anne Nigli, Kolkata
India
August 29, 2012

When Akash Mukherjee wrote his first check recently, his hand trembled.

It was not just the presence of Sister Mary Prema, superior general of the Missionaries of Charity (MC), and his parents that made the 10-year-old nervous.

He wanted to “get it right” because he was gifting the entire amount – nearly 100,000 rupees (US$1,810) he received for playing the lead role in a film in Bengali language – to the charity group.

Sister Prema blessed, thanked and praised the fifth grader of the Jesuit-managed St. Xavier’s Primary School in Kolkata for the gift.

After accepting the check on August 27, the German nun accompanied him on “a grand tour” of her congregation’s headquarters, including Blessed Teresa’s room.

“So small! How did she live there?” the bespectacled boy blurted out after seeing the 5’x12’ room where the celebrated nun lived most of her life.

The only child of Manisha and Gora Mukherjee, Akash was born August 26, a birthday he shares with the Nobel laureate nun.

Akash’s association with the MCs started on his fifth birthday when his parents took him to Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for the dying that Blessed Teresa started more than 60 years ago.

“We wanted him to grow up with a sense of awareness of the world around him and the importance of sharing and giving,” Akash’s mother Manisha explained.

Visiting MC homes on Akash’s birthday has become a tradition in the Mukherjee family. They take him to Shishu Bhavan (Children’s Home) where he cuts and shares his birthday cake, besides donating books, toys and clothes.

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4 Comments

  1. AA Cunningham says:

    There’s no “h” in Teresa, Father.

  2. Joe in Canada says:

    God bless the Jesuits!

  3. irishgirl says:

    How cool this is, indeed! First, the young boy’s birthday is the same day as was Blessed Mother Teresa’s, and then, his generosity in giving his film earnings to her Sisters!
    One very privileged young man, he is!

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