Volunteering Experience With Save the Children

While Talking with the Children at Save the Children's Child-Friendly center.

I had been volunteering with Save the Children since May. I was volunteering with them because not enough attention has been paid to issues of children’s education and rights. I was working as a child rights activist. I went to Save the Children’s child-friendly centers, where street boys who work outside to earn for their a living for their family come to know about their rights and learn Islamic practices. I talked with these children and gave presentations.

Before going to their centers, like everyone else, I also thought that the children must not be able to answer my questions and they might not know about the things that I was going to talk about with them. But when I went there and when I started asking the questions, the children were very confident and they were able to answer my all questions. Despite too many hardships in their life, they continued to get their education while most of the people give up. I was very glad to see such a big difference in them.  

I taught them about cleanness and respecting their elders, and I told them about the benefits of being eating vegetables. I asked the children what they aim to become in the future and asked about their jobs. Talking with them made a great influence and it made me realize how lucky I am and I am going to study in a very peaceful environment. It made me realize that life is full of hardships for many people.

We cannot change our past, but can improve our future

After the unforgettable journey with the dead man ended, I had to prepare for a series of tests. The tests were quite difficult. I had only a few days to prepare for them. I was feeling very stressed. 

After my test was finished, my brother took me to Kabul Water Park. It was a big and very beautiful water park. The all-male park has different types and sizes of pools, water slides, a wave pool and a kids' area. 

First, visitors have to pass armed guards and after that, they can play to their heart's content. I enjoyed the water park so much that I literally want to go swimming there every single weekend during summer. My brother and I enjoyed a lot and I forgot to worry about problems I had and whatever had happened to me which made me depressed, like the danger during whole the journey with a dead man and the worries of tests. 

I recommend everyone to go to Kabul Water Park. I bet you will forget all the worries you have in your life. And you will have a very good time like you had never before. In a week, I faced a lot of difficulties and had a lot of fun. First, a journey full of danger and terrorism, a life-changing, tough and stressful test and care-free fun. After I took the exams, I was worried about failing, but then I told myself that I should stop worrying about the test. I should focus on new goals. I cannot change the past but can improve my future. It gives you a great pleasure when you forget all the problems you have in your life.

Journey with a dead man.

Once upon a time there was a boy who was 12 years old and his father and brother weren't at home so he had to travel alone to pursue his educational dreams, so he traveled with some of his relatives and with a dead body. The journey was very dangerous.  During the journey there was the danger of getting kidnapped by the terrorists and getting mugged by thieves.

Their journey begins and the first destination where they had to reach was Quetta to Boldak. Quetta is the provincial city of Balochistan province of Pakistan. Boldak is a border town and the headquarters of Spin Boldak District in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan. On their way there is a mountain called Kotal which is very dangerous place. What the drivers have to do is drive their car round and round around the mountain to reach the top of the mountain and again go round to come down from the mountain. As the car moved round, the boy felt a little nauseous and started vomiting about three to four times due to which he lost much of his strength and when they reached Boldak, his friend bought him a biscuit and a bottle of mineral water and when he ate it he felt a little better.

Now they started their new destination Boldak to Kandahar. This part of the journey was pretty good. It is a little bit dangerous and there are chances that here Taliban might attack but they were lucky that nobody attacked them and they reached there safely.  When they reached Kandahar they took the dead body to a local mosque. And they sat around it. After a few hours they went to the dead man’s sister’s home to have dinner, when they had their dinner they came back to the mosque to take care of the dead body. It was around 11:40pm and it was time to take a nap till 2:30am so they again started their journey at 3:00am. Everybody there started making a circle around the dead body to sleep.

The boy was a little bit afraid of the dead body that night and hardly could sleep one and a half hour and he was thinking of different horrible stories which made him afraid. He was thinking about what if the dead man suddenly woke up. He was thinking what would happen if a haunting and ghostly encounters start that night.

Now it was 2:30am and everybody woke up, washed their faces and started the journey again.

It was a dark and cold morning. It was about 6:45am when they reached Janda, a small village in Ghazni. Ghazni is a province in Afghanistan, it is located in central-east part of the country. On their way their car got a problem due to which they stayed in a small hotel with the dead body outside of the hotel for an hour until the driver got the car fixed. When the driver was fixing the car they started having breakfast in the hotel. For breakfast they had a few boiled eggs and cups of hot tea. The eggs were quite tasty but the cups in which they were drinking their tea weren’t so clean. The boy was thinking what if he gets sick during the journey, as there will be no doctor or clinics.

When the car was fixed, they were ready to start their journey again. They reached Ghazni around 8:30am.  The weather of Ghazni that day was very hot due to which they lifted up the dead body’s coffin’s upper portion so the dead body get cold air and don’t get decomposed.  After two hours of journey, they reached Kabul from Ghazni. When they reached the dead man’s home, they took his body to his house and all his sons,  daughters, his wife and his other relative were crying and screaming. It was a very bad day for the dead man’s family. It also made the boy sad.

And that was the end of the man’s life and the journey of the young boy for future education starts from here. The young boy is very brave because it is very hard to travel alone with a dead body. It is one of the unforgettable moments of his life. And he learned many new things, including that life is pretty hard and we should be brave and strong and overcome all the problems in our life with courage and determination to reach our destiny. We must not give up and must imagine a better life for ourselves and create stories, poems and drawings to capture our dreams. 

Experince of life without my mother.

I had never experienced such hard days beofe. A week agao my mom and my elder sister went to Afghanistan to pursue her educational dreams. So in our home only there were two members me and my younger sister and we were really missing them. 

I always tried to miss her less and try to forget her and do thing like reading books, play games, chat with friends, watch television. I used to talk her and convince her to come back earlier. In her absence my younger sister used to make the meal. I always felt lonley.

Oh those were the hardest days of my life ever I had. And I pray to god that she should return earlier safely rather than later. 

Never Eat Junk Foods!

Food is very important thing for us we eat food to stay alive and do our work properly. But a  large number of children loves to eat junk foods but they never realize that it is very dangerous for their health. Most of the parents give money to their children and they buy a lot of junk foods by which they are getting ill. Parents think that giving junk food may also be healthy of their kids but their kids never grow.

Most of the parents give money to their children and they buy junk foods which cause a lot of diseases. I never eat junk foods. I always eat homemade things like burger, pizza etc because I know that the foods which are cooked at home are the safest.

If kids want to become healthy and stay save from diseases they must stop eating eating junk foods.

Stop Polluting Please !

A lot of people do not know how to avoid pollution and how to keep our environment clean, the pollution which is taking place very fast and about it's effect and what can we do to stop pollution.

I have noticed that a lot of pollution is in Pakistan. A large number of people through their rubbishes any where they want. Rubbishes is also the cause of water pollution and air pollution. We have rules in Pakistan but no one even follows them and through their rubbishes at roads, at the playgrounds and in any open space. A large number of factories and industries throw their waste materials in water from which aquatic animals die. And this cause a great economic loose.

I think children and adult should stop polluting and keep their environment clean and improved by growing tress and plant and must recycle the waste materials and throw their rubbishes in a proper place.

This will keep our country clean and beautiful, green.

Reading Book is a fun.

Reading books is my favorite thing to do. Books are like our friend. It's too fun to read books. Books are so informative. Books help you find your solutions like if one want to cook any type of food so he/she can easily buy a recipe book from where he/she can find different type of foods with their instruction. Books can make us successful in life. Reading books are so fun. I usually like to read story books and novels.

Most of children don't like reading books and stay away from books and also play games, attached to computers. But they can never have a successful life. You can have fun with books and enjoy. Most of books have games to play and some nice pictures and drawings to color. Books are for any age. When I read book I just feel that I am talking with my best-friend. Most of the time I get idea for my blog by the help of my books.

Books are like friend, because they can make you happy, make you laugh, can give you idea. I just can't wait, I read books everyday. I just love books. And I recommend those children who stay away from books to read books to achieve every goal of life.