You don’t have to be anything more than you to make a positive change.

This camp was done by volunteers of Humanity Initiative in collaboration with Project Mustaqbil at a Govt school in Qayyumabad on Saturday, 27th January, 2018.
One of the volunteers shares his views:

Before starting this let me preface by saying that I was pretty much petrified about all this. Maybe more along the lines of absolutely.

Regardless, I signed up anyways since it was the first time in months I caught a Humanity Initiative post early enough that 300 people hadn’t already commented “in” alongside their phone numbers. The context to my petrification: I’m in second year, international, and coming in my Urdu was just plain terrible, maybe more along the lines of horrific. I was the person who would say “meri urdu itni acha nahi hai” and stutter throughout. Now, of course, if you want to be part of a community outreach program in Pakistan it goes without saying that speaking the language is an essential prerequisite.

Whatever my circumstance though, I signed up, attended the meetings, practiced the presentation beforehand with one of the competent core members, got on the bus to Quyyumabad, walked into the glass filled with maybe thirty kids and therefore sixty gleaming eyeballs, grabbed a poster with the talking points on it, and just talked. My subject was on hygiene and I won’t lie that a good portion of my sentences were not that coherent. I’m pretty sure everyone understood me though, mostly. But what I’m absolutely sure about is that I had an absolute blast. It’s surprising to realize how so very easy is to do something that’s helpful.

Teaching kids how to wash their hands with little songs, applauding every time someone got the answer right to “how often should you brush your teeth?”, and just having fun with them to try and teach them, in general, how to be healthier. Even if I wasn’t the perfect person for the job at the end I enjoyed the experience and would definitely go for it again, who knows maybe I’ll be mostly understandable this time.

So moral of the story, you don’t have to be anything more than you to make a positive change, just sign up and go for it.

Credits:Humanity initiative