Charity a Noble Occupation

There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being-to help someone succeed. - Alan Loy McGinnis

In today's modern era, life has become merely a reflection of rat race, where no-one is bothered about the rest of the fellows. In such a mechanical times, one can think of the condition being faced by the poor, needy, helpless and the orphans who have got no one to take care of, no one to support. But only if for a while, we could take a pause and think, is this all we are born for? Would we lead the life with mere shallow purposes, or can we look deep into the eyes of the deprived ones and offer a helping hand to them for getting out of the miseries, life put on their shoulders without their will? 

The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. - Leo Rosten

We all human beings have been bestowed with this beautiful gift of life once and the true purpose would be achieved when we could leave footprints with our positive accomplishments and none of the other deeds would be greater than helping the fellow human beings especially the deprived ones. It doesn't take much of our time and resources to bring difference in the lives of underprivileged, even little effort by each one of us would bring massive results. Once we speak of the deprived ones, orphans stand first to have our compassion and attention. Mother Teresa rightly expresses their feelings as:

"I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody (to no one)".

Losing either of the parents brings one's life under greater catastrophes. It is not only the financial pressures but the loss of care, love, support and affection changes one's life entirely. The personalities are left with a huge vacuum. The shelter that protects them from the scorching heat of the outside world disappears suddenly and one is left alone to face all pressures. There are number of NGO's and orphanages that are taking care of such people and in-number of people are donating as well. However, if we see the increasing ratio of orphans on daily basis, there are still huge number of people in the world that are deprived.

It is not always necessary that we should start helping at a massive scale, a little help also means a lot. The point to be considered is, it is collective responsibility, not only one or two NGOs or Welfare Organizations can do it. If each one of us would feel accountable and would contribute even a little, a number of children would be helped in a much better way. Occasional visits to the orphanages on special events such as Eids, Christmas, national holidays etc, will give them a great sense of belonging.

Furthermore, such an efforts should not be restricted to individual levels. Institutions and companies can play a significant role in bringing a great difference in these children's lives. Schools can render them free educations. Hospitals can give them free medical treatment. Lawyers can take up their cases free of charge. Colleges can offer special scholarship programs for the deserving students.

Helping emotionally and financially is not important merely, what's important is to help them become a useful member of the society. Instead of leading whole life dependently, they themselves should become a helping hand for others for bringing deprived ones out of the catastrophes. Secondly, one should always help others in a way without compromising their integrity and self-respect.

For charitable acts, Robert Brault has articulated his thoughts very nicely as; "The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free" and that's a great feeling if one could achieve.

Ruma Haman is an orphanage Malaysia based organization committed to help children to become useful society members. The organization provides education, food and shelter to the orphans.

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