{"id":9565,"date":"2024-02-24T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T10:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=9565"},"modified":"2024-02-24T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T10:53:09","slug":"plumbers-act-of-kindness-towards-91-year-old-cancer-patient-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=9565","title":{"rendered":"Plumber&#8217;s Act of Kindness Towards 91-Year-Old Cancer Patient Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plumber is being hailed a hero after it emerged he fixes pipes and boilers for vulnerable customers without charging them any money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/09\/17\/burnley-plumber-james-anderson-refuses-take-payment-elderly-woman-10755203\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">As per Metro<\/a>, 52-year-old James Anderson has helped thousands of people in need since he closed his private business and created a not-for-profit company, named Depher, instead.<\/p>\n<p>But it was one particular act of compassion that stole the hearts of people around the world. A bill was posted online for services rendered at the home of a 91-year-old woman with acute-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.newsner.com\/tag\/cancer\/\">leukaemia<\/a>. It transpired James had charged her a sum total of \u2026 nothing.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1173851964888813568&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fen.newsner.com%2Ffamily%2Fplumber-refuses-to-take-money-from-cancer-sick-91-year-old%2F&amp;sessionId=23db72ee013c1ec579c18fdd9c9571197ed6d8bf&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2615f7e52b7e0%3A1702314776716&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1173851964888813568\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Accompanying the bill, James, a father-of-five, said: \u201cNo charge for this lady under any circumstances. We will be available 24 hours to help her and keep her as comfortable as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James revealed he was inspired to start not-for-profit company Depher after seeing an elderly man mistreated by an engineer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people close to me ask: why are you getting yourself in to debt? Why are you doing this?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, debt is debt\u2026 I would rather owe some money to somebody and another person be alive and happy and safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James has been providing free or low-cost plumbing for those in need since 2017. Even though he\u2019s fallen into debts of around\u00a0\u00a38,000 ($9,940), he believes he\u2019s doing the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an ethos that\u2019s in my heart and it will always stay there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The main aim for James now is to ensure the sentiment of his work goes beyond merely what he can do with his own two hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve spoken to quite a few engineers around the country and they\u2019re all for it\u2026 it\u2019s just getting the funding,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want any person who is elderly and disabled in this country, in this day and age, to die or suffer because of a cold home or a lack of funding to repair the boiler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be happening \u2013 that number should be down to zero. Simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>We hear you James, and we\u2019re mighty proud of the work you\u2019re doing.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plumber is being hailed a hero after it emerged he fixes pipes and boilers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":38,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}