Pose positive: Importance of Volunteering

Tasmia Saleem
Sep 8, 2018 · 2 min read

We always talk about the many social and economic issues that Pakistan has and how nothing can be done about it. We sit comfortably in our homes and lament about low literacy rate, increase in poverty, pollution etc. We blame the government and politicians; but what are we doing about it? After all, we are a part of this community.

So I and my team members Mehmood Awan, Mubashir Ahmad, and Junaid Ahsan have taken an initiative to bring awareness about volunteering how it can bring a positivity in our society.

We are collaborating with Alkhidmat Foundation; to promote this cause we are making a YouTube Channel “Pose Positive”. Each video will be 3 or 4 minutes long. The first half will be about positive aspects of volunteering and in the second half, we will show a video clip from Alkhidmat foundation. With YouTube, we are hoping to encourage university students about volunteering.

We have contacted Alkhidmat foundation. We have met with Mr Hassan Afzal, He the volunteering manager at Alkhidmat foundation. We have discussed our idea with him and he is giving us full support in it. He asked for a formal proposal which I have sent him. We will probably get the written approval within the next week. We plan to volunteer twice a week, take photos and videos and post them on our YouTube channel. At the end of September, we are planning a bake sale to raise funds for Alkhidmat foundation.

We have divided the task among different members of our team. Junaid will be handling the videography. I will write the script for the video. Mehmood and Mubashir will be recording the video.

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