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Serving to
Change
things you didn’t
know about
St Joseph’s Home
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PIT STOP FOR ROYALTY
As part of protocol to engage in
philanthropic work while their husbands
met with local leaders, the late Queen
Aishwarya of Nepal visited St Joseph’s
Home in February 1980 among other
charity outfits. So friendly and easy was
she to talk to that one of the residents told
her he was from Nepal even though he
had only been there. She took down his
‘address’ and promised to visit his family
on his behalf! The late Queen was not
the only royalty to grace the home. Three
months later, the Sisters welcomed the
wives of the late Malaysian Prime Minister
Hussein Onn and the late Singapore
President Wee Kim Wee. They sang
Burung Kakak Tua - an Indonesian folk
song about a cockatoo - with several of
the residents.
Sr Mary ushering the late Queen Aishwarya.
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The late Queen with one of the residents