The Caretakers

Aneesa had a simple dream. She dreamt of a dignified and self-sufficient life. She wanted to be a doctor. She never thought her teenage innocence would clash severely with harsh reality; she’ll find herself in a shattered and miserable world deserted by her father. Soon Aneesa and her six young siblings dropped school at the primary stage. Her mother who is a housewife stood alone nowhere with the responsibility of seven children; clueless and lost.

Broken families earn less and the children either experience lower levels of the educational achievement or no education at all. The cycle of economic disaster continues as these families pass on the legacy of meager income on to their children. Numerous Science and Academic researchers have proved that a child even in this era badly needs a two-parent family to have the best and secured income in their adulthood.

UNESCO INSTITUTE of statistics and other sources reported, there are 31 million girls of primary school age not in school and 17 million of these girl children will never attend school in their lifetimes. Globally 65 million girls are not in the school.  There were 3,600 documented attacks on education including violence and torture against children and teachers. Bombings in schools have resulted in death or serious injuries.  School-aged children belonging to unstable and poor families were reported to sent to the local armed militia groups by their parents in exchange for the financial security of the family.

Terrorism is becoming an increasing concern worldwide, while there have been several large attacks in many parts of the world especially in Western Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The global terrorism Index had found that 38,422 people were killed in terrorist attacks across the world in 2015.

Suffering in human life isn’t a rare occurrence. You never know when a storm is heading towards your life but it is bound to happen at some point. Though broken relationships in families, injuries and terrorist attacks are just a few facets of prevailing disasters and sufferings due to war, natural calamities, poverty, epidemic diseases, negligence to elderly and orphans, gender inequality in the current world.

Charitable organizations are making an impact even in this area. In the immediate aftermath of terrorist attacks, local charitable organizations had announced emergency relief efforts to support the survivors. They mobilize to bring relief to the severely injured, meet the requirements of the hospitals,  dispatch rescuers in the immediate area of attacks, help to rehabilitate people in shock and provide psychological relief over the phone.

Charitable organizations are trying to improve the world when none of us are willing to step forward, go beyond our own personal gains and profits and stretch out to save lives! In such situation, the role of charitable organizations becomes more prominent as they can execute the charitable and relief deeds on behalf of us in the more effective way with experienced and trained workers. 

We need to fund the charitable organizations to boost their volunteer works such as building hospitals,  schools for orphans and help the organizations to fight extremism, radicalism poverty, combating social diseases etc. Majority of charitable organizations operate in good faith and within the law. Charitable organizations must be funded so that they can keep helping those in the most need. Your act of kindness no matter how small will never be wasted.