Charity for Eidi Foundation
Edhi Foundation is the single best foundation across Pakistan I know.One of the best social welfare service providers across the world running on non-commercial, non-political, and non-communal basis, serving round-the-clock without any discrimination of color, class, and creed. Abdul Sattar Eidi did a great job to build this organization from zero to one of largest in world. Since Eidi foundation is non-commercial, so all the social works is done by collecting donations across the world.
In Pakistan, where there are many beggars roaming around streets, masajids and other rushy areas to collect as much money as they can. They use different ways to collect the money from wealthy people. There are some people who pretend that they are collecting for some organization but actually they are fraud. So all these things make people doubtful to donate because people thinks that money will go to wrong hands.
In the scenario Its always difficult to collect the donations. When we were given the task to collect the donations for Eidi foundation which no doubt is very well known organization and people somehow believe in them. But still our first thoughts were that people will not donate or will donate the minimum. So when we start the campaign, initially we were not very much successful and this thing was quite hurting as well. We have collect separately, Ibrar collected from his residence area, I collect from my office and other members collect from their own spaces. There was an issue with meetup and do this activity collectively due to hectic routine of everyone of us. Shahid start by posting a message in office Skype group. CEO was the first to make an announcement that its a noble cause and he is going to donate. Out of 17 team members, 14 donate something. Within 10 min Shahid was able to collect more than 7000 RS. This was tremendous success. All initial fears gone and a new motivation replace the fear. A part of these some people don’t donate anything, They have a point that why they donate a 3rd party, Why not to donate directly to Eidi foundation. Shahid try his best to convince them. But since It was an office space so did not argue much to save the time and office decorum.
Ibrar and other members collect the donations from their own spaces.They have collect the handsome amount and were quite successful as well. Overall It was a great experience. The fear which everyone of us had in their minds gone and a new motivation arise. We have decided that we will take part in such activities in future with much more energy and motivation and with a big target. The biggest challenge was to convince people for donations which handle by different ways. We particularly use AMAL authority letter and profile to make the people believe in us that we are the right people to donate. We did an extra mile to meet every single person in person. We have tried our best to convince them. There were some cases where we were not able to convince and it was failure but we did not gave up and try on more people in our surrounding. The only fear was that people will not donate and may point bad on us but we ignore these negative feelings and thought to gave it a shot and it was worth. It was an amazing activity and we love it.