Do you think it’s necesary to become a member of an NGO to change the world
? Do you really think you can change the other people’s life giving 9 euros per month ? Is money the best
way to help others?
We could answer these 3 questions with a humble and simple NO.
For a long time we've been watching in mass media’s news disasters, wars,
material poverty and environmental destruction.
With this background we might think: The final apocalypse is coming! There
is no chance for this world full of hatred, envy , greed and violence! We will
desapper!
When we watch this kind of things on TV, suddenly inside us awakes
something similar to a feeling : Our
compassionate nature. Besides that in our brain appears something like neon
signs where we can read " I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ."
In this moment we start working on this sentence and we write in Google (
or even better in the search engine Ecosia ) " what can I do to change the
world " ... in 0.56 seconds appears 136 million results .
We start to read different information and we found a thousands of NGOs
which wants you to join them as a membership (providing an amount of 9 , 12 or
15 euros per month). We think maybe they are the solution to the world problems
because They all say to you “With your money we will change the world ". But
we don’t have to much money so we continue searching…
Then the word " voluntary " appears with the next phrase
"give your effort to change the world ". We could think: This is what
I want! But unfortunately , when we had
decided to volunteer in Asia , Africa or South America, the NGOs that manage
this volunteering invite us to collaborate with our effort , passion and hard
work but also with our financial
contribution that , in our humble opinion, is too much.
At the end of our search , we gave up because we were tired to read in different
websites that saying “if you want to help to change the world you have to pay”.
We start thinking that NGOs are like a
business and we feel disappointed. We reach to the next conclusion: We can’t
help the world if we only have a good motivation… apparently we need money if
we want to help this world.
So what can we do to change the world if we don’t want to help with money?
According to our philosophy Ahimsa ,there are many things we can do , but
first we should think deeply about this question:
Do I have to fight to change the world or I have to change myself to see
the change in the world?
In this sense , we find a quote that many people attributed to Gandhi ,
which could help us to answer this question.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
On our way to Ahimsa we want to be our own NGO. We strongly believe that a
small action made by a person can help many people and many small actions made by
many individual NGOs ( each of us ) , can create a big change in this wonderful
world .
Let's start helping with small actions with ourselves, with our family, our
neighbors , etc. Let’s start to fill the
world with small actions to help this planet be a better place to live.
We want to clarify that we are not against NGOs and we are sure that many
of them are doing a wonderful job , nevertheless we think they are not the only
way to help.
To finish this post, we want
to share a video that could show us how a small action of kindness can change
our lives and the other people’s lives.
Ahimsa Spirit!
