Problem Solving Challenge
Challenging ourselves by developing problem solving skill to accept failure.
Here at Amal Academy our 2 week project is about collecting funds for the EDHI Foundation to challenge ourselves to accept the fear of failure. We are put together in a group of 4 members (M.Abdullah, M.Ahmed, Aneela, Saim).
Abdul Sattar Edhi was a Pakistani philanthropist, ascetic, and humanitarian who founded the Edhi Foundation, which runs the world’s largest volunteer ambulance network, along with homeless shelters, animal shelter, rehab centres, and orphanages across Pakistan.
Over his lifetime, the Edhi foundation expanded, backed entirely by private donations, which included establishing a network of 1,800 minivan ambulances. By the time of his death, Edhi was registered as a parent or guardian of nearly 20,000 children. He is known as “Angel of Mercy” and is considered to be Pakistan’s “most respected” and legendary figure.
Donations to the Edhi Foundation have plummeted to a large extent since the death of its founder Abdul Sattar Edhi. According to Faisal Edhi, the son of late Edhi,
“Donations to the Edhi Foundation have declined after the death of my father. We are facing hard times at present both emotionally and financially. I would urge Pakistanis abroad to help us continue Edhi’s mission of serving humanity.”
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As being a part of Amal Fellowship, we have already identified, the problem is that Edhi Foundation is having difficulties in raising funds. So, we have to decided to collect some funds for Edhi Foundation to contribute our little bit part for our beloved Edhi Sb or for humanity. This is an volunteer act that our group really willing to do something big for humanity. The purpose of this task is to continue Edhi’s mission and to experience the fear of failure and challenging ourselves to solve the problem.
We started off with the family members, friends and areas around us. Initially it was very fearing and challenging as it was our first experience to ask people for financial support to help a noble cause. Because of the current situation of Pakistan we was not able to go out as a group to collect funds in different places so we have to do it individually this was more challenging for us to collect funds in such panic conditions in the country. People was not taking us serious they thought we might doing a fraud and some said we can send money directly and we don’t need you to do this for us and some said we heard something bad about the foundation and some said the needy people around us need our support more than the foundation and the reasons go on everyone had their own reason of rejection.
We wanted to do something as the basic purpose was serving the humanity so didn’t let down ourselves and in the given conditions everyone did its best by posting the permission letter from as a status on our social media so that we can collect fund as much as we can. The main obstacle was going person to person, door to door asking for funds it hurts when people pass you by. I felt what is feel like to ask someone for money, what Edhi Sb would have felt when he was on the road asking for funds. The rejection was very harsh and hurts a lot. But we did not gave up, tackle the problem and didn’t lose hope as long we are doing it for humanity we did our best to get out of our comfort zone and collected as much funds as we can.
Anyways apart from the experience maximum we asked funds from helped us as much as they can. Edhi Sb have done his share for the humanity now its our responsibility to keep the circle going to serve the mankind as much as we can. With our efforts of two weeks we succeeded in collecting funds for Edhi Foundation. It was our first experience but we were ready to play our part for this noble cause.
The lessons we learned from this activity is how to come out of your comfort zone, challenging yourself in order to solve a problem and to accept the failure by staying positive even we are receiving negative feedback's. We also have realised that how a man can be so selfless through out his life because we did this activity as a project work but Edhi Sb did this his whole life just to serve the humanity.
Such a down to earth man the great Edhi Sb. We salute Edhi Sb!
Thanks to Amal for giving us the opportunity to get out of our comfort zone, challenging ourselves and facing the failure right in the eye and still feeling good about it and also serving a great noble cause which is HUMANITY.
