I chose Volunteering when my own hands were empty!
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1755 is the year when they say volunteering phenomena emerged. And then this concept re-emerged, reformed and contextualised for various other industries other than military. These days it’s more of a Humanitarian Assistance for all professions.
Since 2010, I have been volunteering in various roles; writer, cyclist, career counsellor, communication & media consultancies, environmentalist, peace-builder. And I did it for three consecutive days maximum. But a recent volunteering experience of almost six months with VSO changed my life.
Covid Pandemic 2019 led us to lock ourselves in a box but i have seen that volunteers of VSO still did their duties. @VSO one can learn how to give him/her self away to serve for humanity. And that’s that volunteering is. You don’t think about yourself when you see who you are serving. Humans with crises are a result of any emergency or a conflict. That emergency made their life standards so fragile that they seek assistance from volunteer like us.
In Pakistan, people are known as hospitable humans. And every one has volunteer in their own self but they don’t look out or to experiment that trait of theirs. This doesn’t need an expertise of volunteerism in Pakistan, it’s in our cultural norms and values that we are more acceptable to diversity and versatility. The classes, ethnicity, faiths, nationalities makes us more stronger for this cohesion. The world is divided into many social categories for their identities only, this division is very refreshingly positive that we feel good to meet people of any other group or community. The social inclusion teachings are the best when we truly and wholeheartedly start it from our own end.
During a talk with a Education Volunteer (Afghan Refugee) in Quetta, Pakistan. I myself felt so proud of being Pakistani when he said to me that he loves Pakistan more than the country where he was born. It was quite an emotional moment for me because I see few who take this blessing of having a homeland for guaranteed, what this country gave us? Etc.
Ask people who are welcomed by our own people that what they feel about it!
Now see! That this experience of learning in volunteering unfolds many horizons. And with the passage of time the wise of us becomes wiser to understand the ground realities of living a life. Giving Away the service in-kind or monetary, both are valued and achieves recognition but only when the beneficiary or recipient is content. Yes Only Then!
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