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We are relieved when someone reaches out a helping hand in our time of need, but the giver gains as well. Not just a do-gooder flush, but a certain intimacy in the knowledge that we will all, in the circle of time, need one another. It is a further boon if the giver and receiver speak the .
âLove is about doing something without worrying whether somebody is going to appreciate it or not,â said Kiran Yocom, an acolyte of Mother Teresa in her youth who later co-founded Seniors Helping Seniors.
Kiran Yocom grew up in a Hindu family in India, but she attended a Catholic school and began showing up to donate money each week at the charities of Mother Teresa.
âI became a beggar at a very young age. To me I was more like a Robin Hood. I would take money from the rich, and make sure to give it to the children who didnât have much,â Yocom recalled.