Should All Pakistani Students Studying in Universities Complete A Year of Community Service

                  Our universities are like our mothers. They take our grooming factor to heights. They build up our communication skills. They tell us how to present things in front of others. They make up our body languages and most of all they take our confidence to infinity by removing all hesitations. Our universities especially public sectors provide us international level degree at very low and affordable cost which help us avail great opportunities. They polish our skills and make us able to do something creative and extraordinary. Universities nourish and groom us for years and surely, they have right over any one year of our life as well. We get services and nourishment from our universities and government.

               We are quite lucky we because we got such things in our lives but there are millions of children on roads in Pakistan. Those students aren't lucky enough to get care from our society or government. They don't get proper nourishment. They don't get proper education and food. They don't get opportunities as compared to us. Some of them are in miserable states.

This society that gives us proper shoes, proper clothes, proper mindsets, proper paths and proper directions to move on in life. The society that don't let us wander in streets when its poor children walk bare footed on the roads then, their

 wandering dreamy eyes, ignorant souls and hungry bodies do need each one of ours, one year at least for community service. Community service is based on the acts performed by someone with the purpose of helping or bringing benefits to his or her community.

“Only a life lived for others is worth living.” -- Albert Einstein

What we get from universities must be returned back to our societies, must be returned to poor and innocent children who cannot even go to school. These homeless ignorant children also need the home and shelter of our services of love and care. Poor children face challenges with social and emotional development. There poverty leads them to develop severe problems like impulsiveness, disobedience and difficulty getting along with peers. Poverty is also correlated with lower self-esteem. In general, poverty makes it harder for children to develop normal emotions to cope with a stressful environment. They do not find appropriate developmental stimulation that helps them overcome poverty. We owe a lot to these children as well as to those who clean our cars, homes and maintain our offices. We need to pay back a year of humanity for the decades we get of the love and care the nourishments we got from our education. Our one year can light up so many years of hope among these poor and innocent children!

“Volunteers are not paid; not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless.” – Sherry Anderson

In other countries community service is a part of course. Most of them volunteer because they need credit hours for their colleges and universities and they don’t find it joyful but usually by the end of their session they are obsessed with it. Students usually teach voluntarily in schools and academies. Schools that poor children afford lack resources and are not as academically challenging as schools that common middle-class people afford. We should transfer our skills and knowledge to these deserving students who can shin in future but don’t find proper resources and doing this doesn’t requires your time, it requires your dedication. As it is well said.

“Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.” — Elizabeth Andrew

This year of community service also helps us to groom ourselves as well. It teaches us compassionate human love and understanding. It increases our knowledge of community need and give us the opportunity to gain on-hand experience. I t exposes students to diversity and multiculturalism. Community service develops an increased sense of social responsibility – a global view of society and a heart for ‘giving back’ and helping others. It gives us an opportunity to apply our learning to practical things. We become better at public speaking and feel more comfortable starting conversations with people, interpersonal and critical thinking skills. It builds leadership qualities and teamwork skills. I t help us to find our passion and help us to lead to a career choice that may not have considered.

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