Old Man Spent Three Years Carving this Road Through A Small Hill Alone

A 63-year-old semi-paralyzed man named Melethuveettil Sasi of Kerala, India managed to carve a road through a small hill near his home and he completed it in three years using only the most basic of tools. He can barely move his right hand and walk.

Sasi has been working as a tree climber since he was 15. Eighteen years ago, his usual climb had gone wrong and he fell to the ground. He injured himself, which left the right side of his body paralyzed. Thanks to physiotherapy and treatments, Sasi was able to walk again and regained control of his right hand a bit.

Though Sasi could no longer work like he used to before, he never thought of giving up on the idea of working for his family.

Sasi then thought to sell lottery tickets to people but to do that, he would need to buy a three-wheeler scooter. He sought financial support from local authorities to fund the scooter but his petition was not answered.

That’s when the semi-paralyzed man decided to get a pickaxe and start carving the road through the small hill in front of his home. Sasi worked almost six hours a day to complete the task.

He said: “I never thought about when I would finish the work. I was just determined to have a road. Every day, I would begin my work at 5am, then stop at around 8.30am when the day began to get hot, and resume the work at around 3.30pm or 4pm in the evening and work till the sun went down.”

People would even laugh at Sasi and tell him he’s crazy. Even having been ignored, rejected, and ridiculed, there’s still a happy ending for Sasi and his family. People who have read about his story decided to step in and give him a gift — a scooter.

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