MARGAO: When disaster struck Nepal, in the last week of April and devastating earthquakes razed the region to the ground, two Margao residents, both neighbours, followed their conscience and set off for Nepal to help.
Businessman Navin Pai Raikar from Aquem and Dr Frederico Miranda from Comba live less than ten minutes from each other but the neighbours had no idea about each other’s presence in Nepal. The two Margao heroes were only concentrating on trying to help the grief-stricken Nepal residents and even shared the experience of an earthquake below their feet on May 12 when they were on their rescue and relief mission in Nepal. Raikar reached Nepal on May 8 while Miranda arrived on May 3 and both left Nepal on May 14, not having met and not knowing that they had a neighbour with the same large heart, right there in Nepal.
