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Well Done everyone.
Good job in saving the man.

This made my day: Yishun coffee shop patrons and doctor save man who collapsed​

When a man collapsed in a coffee shop in Yishun, a few patrons and a doctor wasted no time in helping him, likely saving his life.

Roslan Rahman, who operates a satay stall at the coffee shop in question, detailed the incident in a Facebook post on Wednesday (Oct 30).

His assistant and close friend, Rahmat, had gone to the coffee shop on his day off after cycling and suddenly collapsed as he was having a seizure, said Roslan.

Rahmat also stopped breathing soon after, he added.

Upon witnessing this, a woman who was sitting near the collapsed man sprung into action, instructing bystanders to lay him on the floor.

Another coffee shop patron ran to the nearby Heartland Clinic at Yishun Street 31 to fetch a doctor, while a third bystander called an ambulance.

CPR administered by doctor​

A Dr Lee, who arrived at the scene almost immediately, began performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on Rahmat, said Roslan.

The female patron then got an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) and assisted Dr Lee in using it.

Their efforts paid off, as the man started breathing again, although remaining unconscious.

Meanwhile, the patron who had called an ambulance waited by the road to guide paramedics to the scene.

Responding to AsiaOne's queries, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said that it received a call for assistance at Block 335C Yishun Street 31 on Tuesday, at about 8:10pm.

SCDF conveyed a person to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.

In his post, Roslan wrote that Rahmat is currently in the intensive care unit (ICU) at the hospital, where he remains unconscious but in stable condition.

He thanked Dr Lee, the female patron who took charge, and all others that helped his friend.

"Without you and the lady diner, a life could have been lost today. Everyone at the coffee shop played a part during this emergency. Thanks to all," wrote Roslan.

"This shows the racial harmony that we enjoyed at Yishun Riverwalk," he added.

AsiaOne has reached out to Roslan and Heartland Family Clinic for more information.



A few patrons at a coffeeshop and a doctor from the nearby clinic saved a man's life after he collapsed from a seizure.

 

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How many have helped the poor and the hungry.
Or just walked by the person thinking no one has seen you walk by.
Well Done Thomas
God is very happy with you.

A man, a cooler of sack lunches and a mission: How a formerly unhoused New Yorker helps combat food insecurity in his city​

Outside Macy’s flagship store in Herald Square, a young woman sits on a brown sheet of cardboard, her knees drawn tightly to her chest and her head buried between them. An endless stream of New Yorkers and tourists toting fancy shopping bags pass by without so much as registering her existence.

But when Henry Thomas sees her, he rushes to cross the street, dragging a beat-up gray cooler on wheels behind him.

“Are you hungry?” he asks as he approaches her spot on the sidewalk.

Without saying a word or meeting his eyes, the woman nods quickly and accepts the Wendy’s bag Thomas pulls out of his cooler. Inside is a burger, fries, chicken nuggets, a packet of honey mustard and a plastic cup of Sprite.

Thomas tries to talk with her, but the young woman stays quiet, distant. Without judgment, he grabs his cooler by its handle and shoves off through the crowd, his grown son following closely behind.

Thomas starts off each day with a cooler full of food and drinks, walking the city’s streets and subway system handing them out until it’s empty.

As a formerly unhoused person, Thomas holds the cause near to his heart. “I see myself in their eyes. I was once where they are at and I desperately want to help them,” the 47-year-old father of two tells CNN, his eyes darting from corner to corner in search of others who might be hungry.

His Free Food for the Homeless program was inspired by generosity bequeathed upon a friend of his nearly a decade ago and fueled by volunteers and donations from the public. As a formerly unhoused person himself, Thomas can “see myself in their eyes,” he says of those in need.

New York City is experiencing its highest level of homelessness since the Great Depression, according to the non-profit group Coalition for the Homeless. In August, more than 350,000 unhoused people slept in shelters, with friends and family, on city streets or subways throughout the five boroughs, the group estimates. Another New York non-profit, City Harvest, says nearly 1.3 million residents are food insecure, including 1 in 4 children, in America’s most populous city.

But figures – no matter how startling – don’t mean much to Thomas.

“You can’t force a feeling out of the statistics,” he says. “But if you actually look closely and see just one person in that situation, it will give you more emotions than any number, no matter how big.”

“This is a human being,” he insists. “Do you understand?”

Standing on the corner of West 33rd Street beside Greeley Square Park, Thomas lifts the lid off his cooler and counts out loud the number of Wendy’s meals he has left.

Nine.

Today’s haul isn’t much, he says. But its impact could be great.

“I’m not giving them food. I’m giving them hope.”

A daunting task​

On the downtown 1 Train, Thomas and his 22-year-old son, Carl, both wear gray shirts that read “Free Food for the Homeless and the Hungry.” They stand on either side of the cooler. It’s large – the kind that doubles as a table, complete with cup holders – clunky and difficult to maneuver on a packed train. But they don’t seem to mind.

“Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, we do apologize for any disturbance. Is there anyone on this train who’s hungry?” Thomas bellows from the center of the car.

“We feed the homeless and the hungry on a daily basis. Please help us feed the homeless. We do not ask for much. By donating one penny or more, if you choose, you could help us feed the homeless and hungry.

“And, ladies and gentlemen, we do also accept smiles.”

At that, several passengers smile at Thomas, and he beams back.

“Yes, we gladly accept smiles,” he repeats as he walks down the aisle gathering donations from three people who hold out dollar bills.

Free Food for the Homeless runs almost entirely on the kindness of strangers who see Thomas on the trains with his cooler. His daily cache – usually ranging from $60 to $100 but sometimes up to $250 – buys food for the next day. He also gets food donations from local grassroots groups, including environmental group raeri, which he says gave him 28,000 pounds of food last year, and Staten Island Therapeutic Gardens, which works for food justice.

On weeks when donations are especially low and Thomas encounters lots of needy New Yorkers, he uses his own money to buy as much wheat bread, roast beef and American cheese as he can, then hands out homemade sandwiches.

Even on days like this, when all he has is 10 Wendy’s meals, Thomas loads up his cooler and heads out to find the hungry. At the very least, he says, it lets those people know they haven’t been forgotten.

It’s a lesson he learned from a close friend and neighbor on Staten Island, Rolando “Divine” Farrow, who once got a sandwich from a stranger when he was unhoused – a circumstance Thomas had been in as a child and a young adult struggling with substance abuse. Farrow in 2013 invited Thomas to help him distribute meals to the homeless, and two years later, Thomas launched Free Food for the Homeless.

So far, they’ve fed at least 140,000 people – an average of 50 people a day, six days a week, for the past nine years – estimates Thomas, who’s supported by his partner and public assistance while he builds the charity.

But with the number of unhoused and hungry people in New York City only growing, the task often feels daunting.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/07/us/henry-thomas-nyc-food-homeless-hungry/index.html

 

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The real good wives
Damn the Colonials

Afghanistan village Life| Village girls cooked chicken in a different style​

@Robert217-​

1 month ago
it sure is relaxing watching these beautiful ladies working hard preparing good food

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2 weeks ago (edited)
Natural beauty and a life with nature. Please let them live their own conventional way without foreign intervention.

 

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What a good loving father

Before Dying, Dad Saved Son on Capsizing Boat by Putting Him in a Cooler Box: ‘After a Little While, He Just Let Go’​

Charlotte Phillipp
Sun, 17 November 2024 at 3:35 pm GMT-8·3-min read

The 13-year-old boy described the moment his father saved his life as their crab boat capsized

A 13-year-old boy, who was the only survivor of a boating accident off the California coast, is reflecting on how his father saved his life.

On Nov. 2, a 21-foot white Bayliner crab boat carrying three adults and three children — including teenager Juladi “Jude” Khammoungkhoune and his dad Prasong — was reported overdue after traveling off the coast of Bodega, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office previously reported.

The boat capsized, sending Jude and his family members scrambling to stay afloat, per a CBS Bay Area interview with Jude on Saturday, Nov. 15.

"It was already filled up in one side, and it was already too late before I noticed," the teen told the outlet, recalling the moment when he and the rest of the boat's passengers — including his 17-year-old brother, his uncle Johnny, Johnny's two sons and a family friend — realized that their vessel was quickly filling with water and was going to tip over in rough water.

"As soon as we were on our last equipment, we decided to just floor the boat," Jude added. "It was already kind of too late and the water was already forming inside. So, we just started flooring it a little bit until the equipment snapped. As soon as we kind of went a little bit faster, the boat just stopped working and we just went overboard with our life jackets on."

The teenager said that everyone either jumped into the ocean or tried to cling to the boat.

"I remember some of us splitting up in the water and some of us stayed on the boat like holding on," he recalled. "Some of us went different ways. Like me and my dad were on the cooler and some of us were split up."


Thanks to his father's quick thinking, Jude was quickly tucked inside of a cooler. Prasong held on to the cooler from the outside in an attempt to stay afloat, but Jude said his father let go of the cooler in hopes his son would reach shore sooner.

But "after a little while, he just let go," Jude said, remembering his father's sacrifice

Jude recalled how he didn't know how long the ordeal lasted or where he was, he told CBS.

"I just thought about my family," he said. "I just decided to be smart about it and fall sleep and see what I got and just use it to get out of here."

Shanice, Prasong's older sister, told CBS that it was painful to hear about her brother making the decision to try and save his son.

"That broke my heart," she said. "I mean to hear that he probably had to make a choice."

Shanice added to CBS that the family hosted a vigil on the shore of Bodega Bay, where the boat set off from more than two weeks ago, to honor the passengers who have died and those who are still missing.

Jude’s brother, identified by the sheriff's office as 17-year-old Johnny Phommathep II, was found dead after the incident. The missing passengers are presumed dead.

"Tomorrow's vigil is about allowing my brother's life, my cousin's life, my nephew's life to kind of find their way and just be set free and not trapped at wherever they're at," Shanice said.


https://sg.yahoo.com/news/dying-dad-saved-son-capsizing-233500784.html












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