By CASEY NEILL
A NOBLE Park real estate agent is singing the praises of an Afghan refugee following an unexpected good deed.
Jenny Sudra took her granddaughter to visit her sick husband in South Eastern Private Hospital in Noble Park.
She placed some paperwork and an iPad on top of her car, strapped the crying toddler into her seat, answered a phone call and drove away.
“I forgot about the book and the iPad on the top. I didn’t even think about it,” she said.
Ms Sudra realised her mistake an hour later.
“It’s not my iPad it’s my husband’s, and he breathes through it,” she said.
“I rang the Springvale Police Station to find out if anyone had handed it over.”
She had no luck there or at the Dandenong station.
“They said it was highly unlikely I’d get it back but would check if anyone handed it in,” she said.
Ms Sudra was resigned to buying a new one.
“I was stressing about it, all the information we’d lost – all the bank details, all the beautiful photos of the grandchildren and the weddings,” she said.
“I thought ‘that’s it, I’ve lost everything’.”
Then at 10pm, her phone rang and a man asked if she’d lost her iPad.
He’d watched it fly from the top of her car as he drove behind her, and stopped to pick it up.
“He’d looked and saw my home number on the iPad,” Ms Sudra said.
“He’s an Afghan refugee who lives in Langhorne Street, Dandenong.”
He invited her to pick it up.
“He was a lovely chap. I gave him a reward,” she said.
“He really didn’t want it.
“I thought for what he’s done he should be recognised. It’s an incredible result.
“Someone so poor, someone who hasn’t got money and is a refugee to be able to do that – it shows what sort of upbringing they’ve had.”
