Community......work..
Her hand spoke about every painful moment she has been through for the last 70 years…every wrinkle covers beneath it a story of sacrifice... a story of love…a story of being deprived of your only source of smile… your family… she spent her last 15 years in this center with whom she call her family.. The elders like her…
She only wanted someone to talk to…someone who would remind her of her daughter who stopped visiting a while back…someone who’d read to her poetry and Quran… even if it was for an hour every few days…
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He meets them every day…as soon as he enters they gather around him and shower him with all the sweet words they can remember…they hold him and talk to him…move his legs and then his arms…in so much pain he protests…cries…screams…they stop after they finish everything…peek a boo they play with him…the stupidest sounds make him laugh…and their soul laugh along… it wasn’t the game that made him laugh…it was the sound…it wasn’t their look that were the source of that giggle…for that beautiful eyes cannot capture its surrounding…cannot capture the light around him…cannot create a picture…cannot see…yes…you can say blind he is…but that is just the beginning of the story for someone who is just not as normal as we are…!!!
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All what I am asking for is three students from selective schools should be given extra curriculum activities: Meet the elders.
Three students from selective schools with a project of: Attend every single physiotherapy session a person with a special need takes…
How important is it to grow in our soul the love to do something for our community. Our society is a generous society…caring and really would love to do a good deed…but we tend to do things and ask “what am I getting out of it”!!!!
This summer I wanted to work in a Hospital as a volunteer…I just wanted to spend time with children with special care…special needs…you cannot imagine the joy they can give you…a smile no one on earth and I mean it … no one can ever give you!! Unfortunately, my family disagreed.
We need to build in our society the love to volunteer. The desire to create a change…
First, as usual…our parents have to accept the idea of us doing what they call “charity work.” They have to understand that what they call as “charity” is not a good deed we do to someone … it’s a method of creating a better us.
Second…the society should accept it too. We need to learn how to work as a team. Its time we understand that good projects are based on a good team. A point will arise here, we are brought up to ask for the credit behind a project we do. That should change. We should learn to do something for the purpose behind it, not for the benefit we’d get behind it. I learnt that from you SZ.
Traditional projects should be innovated into something that meets the requirements. We don’t need a charity box in every corner only. We need projects that will offer those who seek a charity a job. We should teach them how to fish, rather than giving them the fish on a daily/monthly basis.
Our education system should believe in it too... our schools should contribute to that.. i wished if my school made us do projects that could help our community...
Community work / voluntary work... name it whatever you want …but I believe its time we do something…the least I can do is write this…hoping to change some people’s mentality…
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3 comments:
Charity isn't doing a good deed to someone but is a method of creating a better us? That's an interesting way of looking at it... learning to do something for the purpose and not the benefit can contradict that point though.. but i see what ur saying and i like it! People always think of charity in the classical term, rarely in the way you mention.. I remember once reading about this British woman living in an Indian camp helping poor and sick people for charity. She gets a very low salary compared to her high pay in England. She spent 15 years there, in India. When asked why she said that making people happy was more satisfying than getting a lot of money, and that she got so used to getting that high feeling daily that she couldnt go back to the business world where there exist many money-eaters..
volunteering has many benefits. charity is something easy to do, for u can just donate some money, but where are the ppl who are volunteering to see that its used well?
i loved this update, it's really insightful mashallah.. remember, change comes from within first, and that when u try to change ppl's mentalities as u call it, a lot of patience and hard work is needed!
First, as usual…our parents have to accept the idea of us doing what they call “charity work.” They have to understand that what they call as “charity” is not a good deed we do to someone … it’s a method of creating a better us.
^ hits the heart straight.
thanks
DG.. you reminded me of a quote SZ used to have which says that few group of people can change the society. (bima ma3anah of course)
Its true that change is not easy.. and many of us reject change.. i am one of those who find change a difficult process b9ara7ah.. but i should learn that if this change is going to be of better benefit to me then i am supposed to accept it .. and adapt to it.
Do you think we are a lazy society?
Seraaph: I just love it when you correct me.. thanks for clearly defining the difference between charity and voulantrly job.. You know the example you provided reminded me of shai.. bs nesait sho hal shai gig .. A7s once you believe in an idea and totally believe in it.. you would do anything it takes to implement it.. although that might take a while..
Annonymous: thanks for passin by.. :)
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