We have a quaterly outreach programme run by our company and I try to go for it every alternate ones.
Yesterday, we went to build homes for underprivillaged families in the innerpart of Manila. Our group was assigned to make the floor which involved:
1. Mixing the sand, cement, the stone chips
2. Mixing all these with water
3. Make the floor
I started with lot of enthusiam and soon found myself panting. I like allmost everyone else, took frequent breaks, had chilled water. I even had a short spell inside the airconditioned bus before resumeing again.
We could finish the assigned task only because we had couple of regular mason helping us out.
My mind went back to the time when we were making our house long ago and used to crib about how slow the guys were working and how tghey deliberately progressed slowly to milk us out of our money.
Thus, yesterday experience was humbling. I realised how difficult the work is, everyday, under the sun wholeday with meagre payments and a future which doesnt look any brighter.
I felt so fortunate having a different professional work in an office environment. I simply felt blessed.
We need to thus do regular community service since it provide enormous self satisfaction for whatever little we do selflessly and not only that it make us realise different lives people live and be less judgemental having some insights from the work we do albeit for a short while. It makes the world a little better place to live.
It must be part of every society to have mandatory community services.
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