GoFundMe To Help Grieving Family of International Fleming Student
/A GoFundMe has been started for Lakshay Sehdev, a security guard at Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) and a former Fleming College student after his unexpected passing.
Photo courtesy of Savita.
The money raised will help to cover the costs of transporting his body to India, his last ritual expenses and repay his student loans.
The 26-year old came from India to Peterborough to attend Fleming where he took part in the Sustainable Agriculture program and the Global Supply Chain and Logistics program.
He began working at PRHC as a security guard in 2020 during the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sehdev collapsed while at work on Aug. 2. Doctors pronounced him dead later that morning after he suffered from cardiac arrest.
“I just want to tell everyone he was a very funny person, he could make friends in minutes,” said Savita, Sehdev’s girlfriend. “Even the Tim Hortons girls were always giving him free donuts. Everyone loved him he was just that kind of person.”
Friend and fundraising organizer Inderpreet Singh Bhasin says Sehdev was a cheerful and happy soul who never missed an opportunity to make anyone's day better. He says Sehdev always kept others first and himself second.
Sehdev had celebrated his 26th birthday a few weeks before his passing and gotten a new car as a gift to himself.
Photo courtesy of Savita.
