Re: If Pakistan Was Your’s to Care For…
Agreed.
But this is about that essential feeling, for compassion and doing good. For people in Pakistan, and even humanity in general. Not really opening one’s houses for the millions of homeless, of sending out your lunches and dinners to the poor and hungry. Charity is a hard enough thing to do, and well one doesn’t get too far if he/she has not the right feelings in his heart of hearts.
But like I said (in one of my posts a few months back), there is a time for emotions, and there is a time for action. If you don’t have a care, there is little chance you will help others. But if you posses that helping spirit, then charity becomes just a tad easy. And well, I do totally agree that business generation, technical and technological skills, and more importantly education is the only way forward.
You can feed poor people 365 days a year, but they’ll be no better on the 366th day if you pull the plug. Take a month to teach them something, and now you are changing lives. And you (and most people here) know this better than me that changing lives is what’s at stake. Pulling people out of the vicious cycle (that most of Pakistan is stuck in) is whats needed.