PHILADELPHIA — When Temple University graduate Dharmik Sheth took off for Poland, deciding in a minute's time to help the Ukrainian refugees flooding into the country, he carried more than bags of soaps, shampoos, and toothbrushes.
He took a Hindu faith that instilled in him the teaching of seva, selfless service, an instruction to treat fellow human beings the same as one would treat the divine.
He also took a bit of the heart of Philadelphia, an image he would share with an exhausted refugee mother and her two young children as a universal symbol of hope.