By OmEr Jamil

November 26, 2010

(Today is my dear chacha’s death anniversary, kindly pray for his soul to rest in peace. Amen)

Lahore, Pakistan

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As of today, it has been 4 exact months that the disastrous floods hit Pakistan and left over 2.4million people devastated by it’s killer properties. Thousands died, 2.4million, collectively, displaced and over 6million people affected in a relatively more dangerous aftermath i.e. lethal waterborne diseases! As 4 months have past, over 7million people still end up in make-shift tents across the country, fighting winters without sufficient food, shelter, warm bedding and hope & will to live…

All due to lack of our attention…

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Do we really think that those pennies, old clothes and used & broken toys that we donated were enough? Think again, especially of your child who just got done with his/her meal! And now think of those millions of innocent souls who have been brought at the risk of starving to death, more each week and their helpless cries aren’t heard well. One reason is because the so-called free-media isn’t telling you anymore of the flood victims because it only shows what sells! Sugar crisis should be covered but dying children are of less importance. Political talks and debates are more important to broadcast as if the nation wouldn’t digest its meal without two or more idiots bashing one another or just blindly justifying their parties stance! I wouldn’t forget the shamelessly intentional ignorance of our new-born immature, bias and commercial media, would you?

(Above is neither a bias nor a generalized approach and I do appreciate those media powerhouses that care and still uphold the humanist spirit.)

You and I are a voice within, of ourselves; the commons, the nation! We have to raise our voices not only for our rights but  also for the very duties of the society we so are bound to and live within; our home! Without recognizing social responsibilities, remember, we’re only animals, when not social animals!

What have you begun to think of? Planning to form another protest, block roads and signals, hurdle traffic, yell & shout and come back home to sleep in your cozy beds? Do you really think that by demonstrations and protests you pay your part in large & full? Do you believe that protests are a practical way to DOING something? NO! you just make half sense of something being bad or wrong without being practical over SOLVING & CORRECTING it; you’re just another pessimist critic with an escapist approach towards the issue esp. when you have been doing anything constructive & corrective in lieu with those issues you protest for!

Be true to yourself and remember, If you are not a part of the solution, you are a part of the problem! It is high time we; you & I we, should start being more of a benefit to dear brotherhood we opened our eyes in and would surrender our souls from!

Approximately half a million helplessly poor women IDPs are pregnant; about 45000 babies to be delivered per month, that too without food, clean water, supportive vitamin, labor health care, nutrition, medical aids and medicines! Over 187,000 innocent little children remain malnourished as you read me and most of them are directly affected by waterborne diseases like malaria, cholera, diarrhea to name a few. Malnourishment causes several deficiencies that lead not just to to lethal diseases but to death in worst cases. At least 100,000 or more of among these children are at high-risk of dying due to starvation…

WE; You & I, or most of us who afford internet hence read this would probably be unaware of any such experiences that the above paragraphs depict of. I believe that is the only reason we are not ‘feeling‘ the pain, or at least not as much as our humanist hearts are capable of!

The flow of emotions in my mind may have made me sound a bit sarcastic, which I must tell I don’t intend to! But you have to believe me that just like I had felt the terrible, very horrifying and very terrible pain within when my newborn son Musa bin OmEr- I’m a fresh father, for the first time- was not well thus kept in I.C.U for 4 straight days & 5 night right after he was born- I feel no different for all those hundreds of thousands kids who’re at greater risk!!!  I hadn’t even held my son in my arms for long, I couldn’t sleep, I didn’t want to leave the I.C.U door hence lodged on to the waiting-area chairs for it was my son in pain and I couldn’t help. I didn’t feel like eating for the food or my taste-buds had lost the feel. I was helpless but hopeful, and then Almighty helped straightening everything through some angels I now recognize in the form of the-then doctors.

Each of these 187,000+ malnourished and dying kids (God protect them!) is someone’s Musa too if not fully mine… but I do know that his parents would be as worried too! Almighty has given me resources enough to cope with any situations but what about those who themselves can’t eat even a full meal a day and live in make-shift tents without sufficient shelter, a blanket… how would they be able to protect their Musa? How many times a day they’d be dying within…?

What a bitter truth to digest!

That leaves me depressed and in intense pain, to heal which I too am trying to scratch all itches to first heal their pains! Only this way would I be able to reach serene relaxation!

I may not be good with words and I do know that words have never been capable enough to convey the feelings & emotions one feels within. I may not be much convincing either, but if even a single word of mine could wake up the humane human inside you, I’d feel like a victor of today who brought out a savior of humanity, that you could be!

Don’t worry, I am not taking my words to somewhere I’d call for a donation, not at all. I’m just letting you know that my heart aches, I remain sleepless when I see our flood-hit brothers’ kids with my shameless naked eye in such a state- that resembles quite close to that heart-wrenching images, those of Somalian kids’ pictures- and for the same reason I am rolling unlike a stone but a snowball to gather some mass of your support. Check out the one below:

No, they are not at Somalia but Pakistan!

ABOVE: A malnourished Pakistani girl named Khadija cries at the Railway Hospital in Sukkur, Sindh province in southern Pakistan on Sept. 13. According to UNICEF, more than 100,000 children are at high-risk of dying of starvation. (Aaron Favila / AP)

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The picture above is a months old story (Reference), I don’t even know if Khadija made it to life… I so hope and pray she did. But if we kept as ignorant and as mute as we have been, Khadija and kids like her would keep dying, all due to lack of our ignorance…

Let’s begin now to be a little more aware of ourselves and our duties at least!

Pakistan Floods are NOT over, even the water levels in directly hit areas haven’t gone down to zero. Those who think there’s nothing more to do, are cordially invited to spare a day or two and come along to see that it is going to take more than just prayers & donation; in fact years to heal and rehabilitate the devastated ones, not days!

The quest for humanity hasn’t either just started, with crushed faith it had long been awaiting us; the helping hands to step up to save what’s our own. We must recognize our priorities which according to all religions- of and in the world- is about keeping the humanist spirit up and going out in the wild to help those in dire need. Saving lives is not only the greatest job to do, it should as well be considered the highest priority of all.

Let’s do it in just any way we can. Let us be the saviors of today and victors of always just by performing nothing else than our duties and doing our parts the way we are supposed to. Let us save what’s our own!

Hint: To start doing our part, we first need to wake up and then think, plan and start doing!

Donations & monetary submissions are suggested, to any organization of your choice but among those who’re actually trying to help while not pocketing for materialistic benefits! Also, considering the Donor Fatigue, opt for organizations with lowest administrative & fundraising expenditures reflecting on donor’s money!!! My recommendation, in this regard could be found here.

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