Helping the helpless
The problem I want to address through this medium is sheltering the helpless stray animals on the streets of Pakistan.
Growing up in Karachi, people’s behaviour with stray animals never ceases to amaze me. The streets of Pakistan are neither safe for humans nor animals. The extent of prevailing animal cruelty in Pakistan is mind-boggling. The way people behave with animals always makes me question their sanity. It’s unexplainable how a human can behave with a helpless animal the way they brutally do. This brutality always makes me wonder that something has to be done, which brought me towards this project.
Amal Academy gave me the opportunity to pursue my dream and turn it into a reality by assigning us this task for a Mega Project. The activity was enlightening in a way that I got to visualize my dream in a practical, more feasible perspective.
I started approaching the project by thinking about it more deeply. I engrossed myself in the nuances of approaching this project and what could be the ways I can actually do something about it. This project stimulated me to do something and not just think about it.
I started off by contacting one of the founders of a Karachi-based animal shelter called ACF. Due to some reasons, I couldn’t get through, and my questions were not answered. But I have watched her videos, and I know her motive is very clear. I know that woman up-close through her Facebook page, and I also want to be someone as strong and compassionate as her.
This project helped me to empower myself to take the first step and at least try to approach it with a positive mind. The sense of just doing something for the society that I have been living in is a breath of fresh air for me. Nothing makes me more excited than the idea of serving the community in any way possible. This project gave me a closer insight into the feeling and what it would feel like if I actually start doing this social service. It was basically a close-up for me of what it would feel like to become a social entrepreneur and do something for the society and serve my soil.
