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Gulf News helps locate anonymous do-gooder
One day after Gulf News ran an article looking for the Good Samaritan who helped in saving two-year-old Sia's life, her angel has been found.
- By Marten Youssef, Staff Reporter
- Published: 00:01 April 2, 2008
- Sia's mother Jyoti Rana was given a ride to the hospital by an anonymous man after her daughter fell unconscious.
- Image Credit: Supplied Picture
Dubai: One day after Gulf News ran an article looking for the Good Samaritan who helped in saving two-year-old Sia's life, her angel has been found.
Sia's mother Jyoti Rana was given a ride to the hospital by an anonymous man after her daughter fell unconscious. Forgetting her purse in the car, the driver even dropped it at her bed side and disappeared. There was no time for thanking him.
"I never thought it would happen so soon - but it did! This angel's name is Ali Q. He is a wonderful 26-year-old Emirati man with a heart of gold.
"His friends wrote in to us telling us about him and then we had the amazing opportunity to meet him on Tuesday and spend an hour talking about the experience and getting to know each other. Sia was immediately drawn to him and wouldn't stop feeding him chips!" Jyoti said.
After running Jyoti's email in the paper hoping that the Good Samaritan would reply, Jyoti wasn't expecting such a reaction from the public.
"We were flooded with emails from individuals from all walks of life, labourers and CEOs, who all said 'Thank you for writing in to thank this man. This article renewed our faith in angels and good people.
"In a busy and work-driven environment most people have a hard time going off of their routine ...", Jyoti said.
For Ali, this was the right thing to do. "It's interesting because most people get surprised when they hear that an Emirati did this. It's a general sentiment that people think we don't help.
"But the truth is that we are in the front line, we just don't care for the attention. It's in our culture to not want credit for our good deeds. But we are in the frontline of helping others.
"No one knows about it. We want to stay away from recognition. But I am so glad that I could help Sia and also help reshape people's views of us," he added.
Your comments
I am really touched by what Ali did. I have always felt that Emiratis are very good people and are out to help people in need.
Mathew
Dubai,UAE
Posted: April 02, 2008, 10:42
Simply great....It gives a tremendous sense of happiness when you find a person helping a person in dire straits and then never thinking about recognition for this. I am really grateful to Mr. Ali for this noble act. I am really overwhelmed with the effort put by Sia's mother to locate him for her child's sake to thank him wholeheartedly.
Harish
Abu Dhabi,UAE
Posted: April 02, 2008, 10:11
This is right that Emirati people are very helpful in the UAE. I remember my car sticking in sand and Emirati people helped me push the car out of that. I am really thankful to them.
Ramzan
Dubai,UAE
Posted: April 02, 2008, 10:11
That's a really nice story - more of this should be in the newspapers as it shows us one thing - people are there for others, helping strangers and not everyone wants to have the credit for this ... I just hope everyone would have done this, regardless of nationality. I hope that the little one is well soon.
Susan
Dubai,UAE
Posted: April 02, 2008, 09:04
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