All good? That's good!
But do you know how many people live in unimaginable horrors and terrors?
Even I don't know, but an incident made me think about it...
What happened is that I went to a high school/college, because we had to have a "bite" of which line we are going to choose in the future. I was over the moon...the day couldn't be better in any ways. I was going from the college to home then I suddenly saw a beggar. apparently, she wore a torn old jumper, trouser and a hat. She had a picture of Christ in her 7 eleven glass. "It is something different with her", I thought. I usually don't look at beggars. I just look forward, but this time it was different. Usually, the beggars look at you and beg in their language, but she didn't. Instead of doing that, she looked down. I saw her once and moved on. And then I stopped. "I won't become poor if I give her some kroners", I thought. I checked my pocket and found 10 kroners. I went back and gave her 10 kroners. She looked up and became so happy as if I have given her 1 million kroners. She touched my head and said something in her language that I didn't understand. My already happy day became happier.
I went home and did my homework. I had to read a chapter before my English class. Coincidently, the chapter's name was "helping hands". It was about organizations and people who help people in need. The first site of the chapter is about:
MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières
MSF(French: Médecins Sans Frontières, English: Doctors Without Borders) is a French-founded non-profitable, neutral and an independent organization. People who critically need help get help no matter what country, political party or religion they belong to. Approximately, 32 000 people work for MSF. They are doctors, nurses and psychologists, as well as people who work in laboratories and administration. These people are there, in the middle of catastrophes.
MSF provided help in 71 countries in 2012.
MSF spent 944 million euros:
81% - was spent on humanitarian activities
19% - was spent on management and fundraising
Numbers taken from www.msf.org
Many people question that where did the money go? Well, here is the statistics.
I asked my teacher about how much the workers get, for being there, sometimes without electricity, in countries where it's so warm. And where it's big chances to get sick or even be killed! My teacher said that they get approximately 20 000 kroners or 2410 euros and it's enough to survive.
Save The Children
This is what war does to children:
Stand #WithSyria
Save The Children was established in the United Kingdom in 1919. Save The Children is an international non-governmental organization that promotes children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries. They want to improve the lives of children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities, as well as providing emergency aid in natural disasters, war, and other conflicts.
Save The Children give children in 120 countries support for health, education and protection.
Hats off for changing 125 millions lives.
"Emergency Responnders, Save the Children would like you to join our global team of highly skilled Humanitarian Professionals whose passion and mission is to deliver rapid, high-impact programming in emergency response to achieve inspiring and dramatic change for children. Standard deployments include individuals with functional expertise in Operations, Logistics, Media, Proposal & Grants, Human Resources, Finance, Communications, Security, Technical Programmes, Education and Monitoring and Evaluation"
- Save The Children
"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor people for helping us us to love God better because of them"
- Mother Teresa
There are many organizations who work for humans, and I'm extremely sorry, because I couldn't write about them. I did more Research than this! So, the story I told you in the beginning was a very, very, very small contribution in front of what these great people do. I wish that I can do a little more to make a difference.
-Ritika Jaswal
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