EDHI FOUNDATION FUNDING WEEK

Mahnoor Sohail
Aug 26, 2017 · 3 min read

This week challenge of collecting funds or Edhi foundation was something new for me as I had never collected funds for any kind of NGO. As working with them or doing some kind of paper work is I think far more easy than collecting funds for them.

How did you go #extramile?
The day that we selected for fund raising was eventually was not good because of the heavy rain we had to wait for a while. But our group didn’t loose hope and did not let their moral down and eventually when the rain stooped we started our fund raising process. the respond of most of the public was good they were listening to us and also their were individuals that also helped us in fund raising activity.
But I would not say that it was a hundred percent success. there were individuals that were not believing us and in that way we had to show them the authority letter. As. i think demanding the authenticity or proof of our cause is also their right and we feel free in order to help them that we were really working for a cause and this funding was actually going to contribute its part in helping the edhi foundation. Also, an incident came in front of us when we went for fund razing in a university and one of the student of the university was literally started shouting on us that on what authority we were doing this activity and he was really in quarrelsome mood and it was very challenge for us to handle him as we advice him and talked with him to calm himself and showed him our group authority letter. he was not convinced but going a extra mile and try best that to convince him was challenging for us and we really learned many things and one that was very important was to compose our self even we were rejected and disbelieved by many people but we did not showed our anger but were composed and went a step ahead in order to convince them.

Did you have any fears? How were you able to overcome them?
Fear of rejection, disbelieved and devastated are the worst of all but this activity helped us realized that this feeling really can be overcome by taking real challenges and by doing real work in order to overcome them. If we will not do something it will eventually grow within us. The best thing that helped us in order to overcome that fear was that we were in groups and it really helped as everyone were supporting each other. If any worse situation was in front of us we were handling it together and this really helped us in overcoming our fear.

there were few challenges we faced means mostly people were helping and were nice to us. But there were few individuals that were not believing us and that was something very challenging because we have to convince him and that we already know that by talking with them and not becoming aggressive like them and showing them the authority letter all this extra mile steps were difficult to perform but make us feel better that we were doing something in overcoming this challenge instead of running away from such challenge.

Was it as difficult as you anticipated?
As, our group was not expecting such a good response. there were few people that were not believing us but most of the public were friendly and were contributing in the funds. And this eventually became less difficult for us as our group has expected.

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Mahnoor Sohail

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