Challenging your problem solving skills to accept failure

5 min readJan 15, 2021

Charity is very important for each one of us because it helps in purifying our thoughts and soul just as donating blood purifies blood. We often think that donating a small amount might not make a difference but that is not the case because the amount might be small for us but it can have a huge impact on someone’s life. I personally believe helping someone gives such a satisfactory feeling. A small donation can make someone’s day. The sentence I just wrote is not merely a sentence but an ocean of feelings if we think about it deeply. Making someone’s day, making someone smile or feel relaxed for a while is such a blessing. People who donate are lucky to be the donating hands. Many of us create problems and brag about the difficulties we have faced but we don’t realize the efforts people put in to survive daily. There are people out there, sleeping on roads, in these cold nights thinking about whether they will have tomorrow’s meal or not. We just need to have feelings for others and start observing people around us. Indeed, this has helped me and will help anyone who starts doing this. This helps one’s mind and soul. The night you sleep after helping someone or making someone’s day is truly one of the best and satisfactory nights.

Collecting fund in group:

We are working in a group actually, but collecting it separately due to Covid-19 we can go outside in a group and ask for donations, so it made us find an alternative way to overcome the problem, and we are circulating posters on our social media accounts and asking from our friends and family members to forward them as well.

Experience of fund collection:

The experience was very new and unique for us. This was in some way a practical implementation of what we have been learning at AMAL Academy. We had to utilize our communication skills, leadership skills and our negotiating skills. None of our group members had the experience of doing so. The experience was unique yet a very good learning opportunity. In the first week, it was really a new thing but as we started making posters and going into details, we realized the cause for which we were doing it. It was the first time we all had to become leaders without an authority. Transferring our thoughts into someone’s mind is an uphill task yet each one of us performed it with full enthusiasm. The satisfactory feeling was mutual for each member of our circle. The response from some people was really supportive. They offered us to share our poster, send in their respective groups and put on their social media walls. The way some people were willing to help was such a good feeling. This feeling was unique as none of us had experienced it before.

Experience of accepting failure:

The experience of accepting failure for us was too good and was a little bit painful because we were feeling the pain of failure and rejection but we embraced it with an open heart because we were not doing it for ourselves we were doing it for orphans, widows and for people who cannot afford meal two times a day. So, whenever we think about them our egos die and we were ready to hear all the rude and mean sentences of people, it still hurts but we kept going to person after person that was the most amazing thing I have ever learned. The reason for calling it the amazing learning is that we learned that failures are the pillars of success but no one love failures no one goes somewhere just to get rejected or to hear mean and rude sentences. We did and it felt amazing, this activity was teaching us how to fail for a bigger victory and after all those rejections what we received was priceless satisfaction.

And there is one more thing we felt by this activity that is trust, respect, and love. Although there were a lot of people saying rude and mean things and rejecting us people who donated were more than people who rejected us, and they were so happy and excited for helping orphans, widows, patients and needy people through Edhi. We saw people who did not say a word after seeing our Amal student cards. Two men gave us 1,000 rupees without even saying a word to us.

Difficulties and challenges

As we are from different cities so it is very difficult for us to involve as group but all our participants have played their part in raising funds on individual level. The people even give threats to my one team member Riffat that you are faking this activity and I am going to report you and police but she showed a lot of courage. The one challenge we face as group that many people were agree to give funds but they keep on saying that I am sending money and that money never came. These people are just faking it and it hurts more than facing no. Some people did not bother replying to us which was a really bad feeling. Some people didn’t take it seriously. There were some people who made fun of it like, ‘’KIN CHAKARON M PAR GAE HO’’ and “SADKA LENA START KR DIYA HAI”. We had already discussed that such responses will come and our strategy to overcome this was to reply them humbly and explain to them our situation and task. We had a clear plan to focus on the positive responses and see the brighter side of the image. We positively responded to everyone asking such questions

Pictures of activity: