Where did the name Maitri come from?

Jacek Wójcik is speaking:
For the first time I found out about the famine in 1973 when I was preparing a church paper as a penance. I read the sentence spoken by people from Africa: “Take your tents, and bring your hearts closer.” It was directed to donors. I began to wonder how to give so that the gift could fulfill its role. Not only the fact of giving, but its way is important.
In 1975 I took a tour to India. I went there unprepared, I did not understand the surroundings, which was culturally and religiously different. I did not have money. I was using the cheapest means of transport, I was staying in cheap hotels. Thanks to that I got to know not only monuments, but also alive India - simple people living in the slums. I will give only one example. During my stay in Calcutta I became ill with the flu and a little son of an employee was ill too. The boy was sleeping in the yard on the concrete. I gave him my sleeping bag, I paid for the examination and medication. When I was leaving the place, his father gave me back the sleeping bag thanking. I will not forget his eyes full of gratitude. I saw the eyes of a man who loves. Thanks to such a meeting, nobody can convince me that a religion predestines to the lack of love.
I was working symbolically in centers run by missionaries. The house for the dying was established in the bedroom for pilgrims in the temple of Kali, the patroness of Calcutta. The temple is still active. I will not let myself be told that Hinduism predestines a man to the lack of tolerance.
Before getting back home, I got from my mother Teresa a list of drugs needed. In Poland no one was interested in helping. I invented naively that I would speak and distribute flyers, how to send a parcel to India. After my speech in a parish, I was called to pick up and send the medication myself. Then people (sisters, priests, bishops) started supporting me. After two years, a movement was created.
About the fact that we have the charisma, I learned after 15 years. There was a problem of a designation that would emphasize what is the most important, what is also present in those people. In the Department of Indology in Warsaw I asked about it the director Krzysztof Berski. He gave me the book "Understand India". The word maitri was described there. This word is not equivalent to our concept of love.
A strong confirmation of the rightness of this choice is the opinion of Father Marian Żelazek, who spent half a century in India. He said there could not be a more beautiful name. The choice was not only based on personal experience, it is based on the teaching of Pope John Paul II: the encyclicals, the teaching of the council and the activity of Mother Teresa. In the early years it was our compulsory reading.
The origin of the Movement was the result of the action of the Holy Spirit. I see this from the perspective of external and internal opposites. The internal opposite is the intrinsic pride in good action resulting from work for others. The Movement is threatened by depravity, charisma must be reminded, in order not to become an organization, in order to be a Movement of heart that understands what love is. The Mother Teresa said in order not to spoil the work.
Now we have to find a word for Africa, understandable for most of its people. The matter is more difficult, there is no Sanskrit counterpart there. Let's look for God's love, let's look for it in other people. The point is to get closer to each other.
Translated by Anna Dominko