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My Reward: Never Ending Happiness and Fulfillment
I am a volunteer nurse of Streetlight Philipphines from the time it was born and I witnessed how amazingly things happened at the center up to now. Streetlight is an organization that accommodates orphans and street children. Though I left Streetlight for about a year, I came back with great joy, enthusiasm and excitement, giving my commitment and dedication to serve these unprivileged children again.
A question has always been asked to me by my friends, and even by my family; why do I stay at Streetlight as a volunteer nurse, giving up my job at the hospital, to spend so much time treating street children with contagious diseases that will only put my health into risk. I only give one answer: “My Reward: is a NEVER ENDING HAPPINESS AND FULFILLMENT I experience in helping the street children. Streetlight was planted in my heart, and my burning desire to help these kids hooked me, even though I receive less, even nothing. Like the children, I also found a home full of so much love at the center. It is not so hard to see the lovely smiles on the faces of the children. Their sweet embrace gives real joy in my heart. And it is pleasant to hear them call me “ATE”. It is even more fulfilling for me to help restore the health and strength of children who are nearly facing deaths because of illnesses and diseases for them to enjoy life to the fullest. They deserve to live long and to take pleasure in this world, but no one cares until Streetlight came.
It is my deep longing to help all street children who are slowly dying on the street, as I gave aid to some of them. Very skinny, coughing out loudly, abnormal breathing, blood in the urine, pains all over the body, skin covered with flakes and scabies all over, and it torn my heart whenever they come to me and says…”Ate please help me”. No matter how much I long to help these children, Streetlight has limited funds for a very expensive medical assistance. Streetlight needs more help, to extend our aid to them. But somehow just by spending time with these children gives comfort to them.
In my mind I thought, that these children needs my medical treatment, as many of them are in the stage of terminal case of tuberculosis and keep on fighting for their life. But they proved me wrong; instead they taught me that it is not medicine that really cure the diseases that they have, but a heart of a person that truly cares.
For me, my life has no purpose if I just live into it. But serving these children makes my life more meaningful, and I am grateful to Streetlight for giving me such opportunity. Though helping these children sometimes makes me selfless, yet, I am still blessed that I am not one of these children who lives on the street, sniffing rugby, and begging money for food. These children are just waiting for someone to lend them a hand and by sharing what we have even in small things, is the greatest thing that you, other people and I can do for them.
visit our site at Facebook www.facebook.com/streetlightinternational
www.facebook.com/streetlightcanada
www.streetlight.org
A question has always been asked to me by my friends, and even by my family; why do I stay at Streetlight as a volunteer nurse, giving up my job at the hospital, to spend so much time treating street children with contagious diseases that will only put my health into risk. I only give one answer: “My Reward: is a NEVER ENDING HAPPINESS AND FULFILLMENT I experience in helping the street children. Streetlight was planted in my heart, and my burning desire to help these kids hooked me, even though I receive less, even nothing. Like the children, I also found a home full of so much love at the center. It is not so hard to see the lovely smiles on the faces of the children. Their sweet embrace gives real joy in my heart. And it is pleasant to hear them call me “ATE”. It is even more fulfilling for me to help restore the health and strength of children who are nearly facing deaths because of illnesses and diseases for them to enjoy life to the fullest. They deserve to live long and to take pleasure in this world, but no one cares until Streetlight came.
It is my deep longing to help all street children who are slowly dying on the street, as I gave aid to some of them. Very skinny, coughing out loudly, abnormal breathing, blood in the urine, pains all over the body, skin covered with flakes and scabies all over, and it torn my heart whenever they come to me and says…”Ate please help me”. No matter how much I long to help these children, Streetlight has limited funds for a very expensive medical assistance. Streetlight needs more help, to extend our aid to them. But somehow just by spending time with these children gives comfort to them.
In my mind I thought, that these children needs my medical treatment, as many of them are in the stage of terminal case of tuberculosis and keep on fighting for their life. But they proved me wrong; instead they taught me that it is not medicine that really cure the diseases that they have, but a heart of a person that truly cares.
For me, my life has no purpose if I just live into it. But serving these children makes my life more meaningful, and I am grateful to Streetlight for giving me such opportunity. Though helping these children sometimes makes me selfless, yet, I am still blessed that I am not one of these children who lives on the street, sniffing rugby, and begging money for food. These children are just waiting for someone to lend them a hand and by sharing what we have even in small things, is the greatest thing that you, other people and I can do for them.
visit our site at Facebook www.facebook.com/streetlightinternational
www.facebook.com/streetlightcanada
www.streetlight.org
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