volunteering..

one of my major accomplishment for this year would be to finally volunteer myself for an organization which does charity. well i've been thinking of this for a long long time but never actually found anything to my liking as i was a bit choosy in the way i'm going to volunteer myself. I wanted to find an organization where it can really meet my objectives of volunteering and not volunteer just for the sake of volunteering.
After the long wait, i finally found AFM. It all happened when i knew Amma was coming down to Malaysia again in April 2008 and i wanted to do something for Her organization during Her visit here. The reason for this was because when i first met Amma in 2006, I saw hundreds of volunteers helping out for the event and i liked to see the unity spirit in them as they were from different races and religion but all working towards one goal with loads of love.

Although i'm a Hindu by religion, i prefer not to join orgazations which are focused on serving only Hindu related activities, i prefer to be more open so that I'm able to reach and serve more people in this world, regardless of their race or religion. And when i saw Amma's charity work and the way She reaches to the people, i immediately decided that that this is where i wanna serve.

When i first sent the application form, i expected to be given some very small task such as serving food to the devotees or distributing pamphlets as the organization was already so huge and there were almost 1000 over volunteers who already signed up for Amma's visit. But never did i expect that i was straightaway pulled into the main organizing committee to help out the organization's top management in planning out the whole event as it was a huge event with almost 20000 people coming to visit Amma in one day and almost 800 over volunteers working to manage them.
It was truly a staisfying and most memorable experience in my life as i was really able to contribute something meaningful which met my objectives to be a volunteer.

Now once again the organization is organizing a charity show with handicapped children & adults performing. It will be held this weekend at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center with handicapped artists coming from as far as China and also Malaysia.

It has been a busy week again as we're sorting out all the volunteers and everthing else to make sure the show runs smoothly. Once again its gonna be an eye-opener experience for me as i work with these handicapped children and take care of their needs personally. Only tommorow, for the first time i will be meeting the whole group which consist of almost 80 over handicapped artists . Just reading their background alone sometimes brings tears to my eyes..i dont know what will happen to me when i watch them performing.

God bless them..

For mor information about the show you can visit here.

c u after the show guys :)