Prez Ali attends funeral service of young Aiden

Guyana: President of Guyana, Dr. Irfaan Ali, accompanied family and friends of the Kiritpal’s for the funeral service of their 20-month-old son, Aiden Kiritpal, who died after the vehicle his father was navigating out of his yard accidentally ran over him.

The service was held today at the family’s home in De Hoop, Mahaica.

In his expressions of condolences, the Head of State offered his sincere sympathies to Aiden’s family and laid a wreath in his honor.

The President, who is a father of a toddler himself, empathized with the young couple.

“To the young father and mother, grandparents, relatives, your faith is being tested, and your faith is being tried, I ask you to be patient; I ask you to be resolute in your prayers, to be stronger in your devotion to God Almighty and to come closer together as a family. 

Comfort each other, surround each other with love, and spend more time together. While it does not bring complete healing, it gives us an opportunity to re-connect in faith and hope. 

Furthermore, he added, I pray that your lives be strengthened, that patients be given to you, and that the love of your child continues to live in you and with you forever.”

In his heartfelt expressions, the President noted that losing a child is one of the most heart-wrenching pain a parent can go through and that he understands the void that is left in their lives.

He said that there is no doubt that young Aiden brought tremendous joy and tremendous happiness to the family.

“We all know, those of us as parents, how different it is when a child is in the home and how comforting it is to have them there. The essence of the family has to do with the children themselves. 

We celebrate their accomplishments, just like our parents celebrated our accomplishments. So, one can only imagine the sorrow of a parent, the pain of a family when we have to let go of a child. I’m lost for words to express to this family.”

The Head of State added that support to the family is critical to help ease their pain. “Importantly, we all could contribute to the easing of that pain, through our prayers, through our thoughts, through our kind words. Here is where the support of the wider family becomes more important, to give that support, that encouragement, that love.

“It is times like these that true meaning of community, family, spirituality, and communion among members of the Mandir become critical in giving that support.”

The President also spoke on the importance of faith, which he said is necessary for life. “Important for us to understand too is the role of faith, we have to be strengthened by faith and so it gives us an understanding that we don’t have control over everything and it’s those little things that we don’t have control of that we have to rely on the creator to grant us the strength, to grant us the faith, to grant us the understand, to grant us the patience, to grant us the ability to accept what we cannot understand.”

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