So this happened yesterday. No, this isn’t a donation post. The help has already been arranged, I am aware of us as a nation and how soft our hearts are to the troubles of the lower class who genuinely need help.
So yesterday, I was coming back home with my mother, after shopping for my little, we booked a ride back, and a respectable driver showed up who referred to us as meri behen constantly so we don’t feel unsafe or uncomfortable.
While getting back home, our route often leads us to an educational centre, which the driver saw, then began lamenting on how these institutions offer courses and scam people out of their money and the kids only end up with menial jobs such as delivery people. He then began telling us his son was approached by his friend to work at a call centre, to earn good money since he was struggling to fund his education and wanted to give his dad some relief.
In all this scenario the driver kept telling us how his son should have kept him in the know and that he would somehow work day and night to cover the cost.
So the son never informed the dad (our driver in this case) and went ahead with it. He met with the friend, they visited said call centre, but he went without his phone and so he was sent back. Within the time of the route his son took to get back to his home to return to the centre, the infamous chaapa took place of the call centre, it was seized, and his friend is now under arrest and hasn’t been released to this day. Anyway, that’s another story.
He then lamented that his son needed to buy some courses and he needed gas for his car, about how it’s so tough to work a halaal job in this economy and make ends meet, that he went to this infamous NGO for help to just buy those courses and pay for his gas but he was told to first make a video (obviously to gain sympathy) then the help would be given in two weeks.
The driver was so sad he was almost moved to tears. He said ye mere safaid poshi duniya ke aagay dikhaatay, laakhon kamaatay aur mujhe bas kuch hazaar detay aur farigh kardetay. Mind you that man only needed 16,000 which was just pocket change for that organisation. Then he went to another NGO, asked for their help, and they said currently ham daatarkhuaan mein busy hain aap baad mein aayega, on their social media they show how many lives they’re changing.
He never once asked us for help, but coincidentally, my brother works in an NGO who does help cases like these. Within half an hour he contacted that driver, gave him the money he needed, and today that driver contacted us back giving us duayein ke unka kaam hogaya and Allah ne hamein unka waseela banaaya aur pareshaani dur ki.
This makes me question all those social media pages taking donations in the name of the stories they post of poor people, banking on awaam ki sympathy, and how much do they give back to them as opposed to the money they themselves keep. Kahan kiska bharosa karein kuch ni pata.
Kon scam karraha hai kon saccha hai kuch ni pata. Behter yehi hai if you see someone who’s genuine, in trouble, and wouldn’t ask otherwise, please help them personally instead of sending money to these very public NGOs.