"VOF Week 2: ( A Seed Which Started Germination )

VOF Week 2: ( A Seed Which Started Germination )

Throughout my student life I had been involved in extracurricular activities such as running an educational community-based theatre group and a social welfare organization. The welfare organization was formed by a group of students and factory workers with objectives to increase awareness about health, education and child labour among the low-income areas and most interesting thing was that I was the only girl among 30 members and was chosen as president of the organization. During that period, we used to go in villages and in remote areas, which showed the horrible picture of women life because in our feudal society, at every 20 minutes, a woman dies from the complications of pregnancy and childbirth. Women of Pakistan have little choice in making reproductive health related decisions such as how many children to have, whether to practice family planning or not and to access health services. This whole scenario of reproductive health and women status forced me to work for the awareness of our community and fortunately, I got the opportunity to join the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health

I grab the opportunity and start working in LDM as a program associate. Where I have to maintain a network of reproductive health leaders via internet to send them latest information’s about conferences, courses and current figures and fact.During this, I have to read and search lots of sites and mails. As my daily routine, when I was busy in reading mails from my fellows I found the invitation from ‘voices of the future’. I clicked and registered on it because it is my passion to communicate with the people. As the days I found it interesting because Voices of Future provide us a platform where we could come closer to those whom we never met, talk or seen. It gives us the real picture of life in far remote areas.

World pulse also gives us a larger space to discuss our issues and if this platform develops then I hope it could be turn into a global organization that could produce a loud sound which could not be over heard and would produce a movement.
In the start, it looked like a seed waiting for the suitable condition and water to be germinated and I think now it started germinating and became a plant whose roots are all over the world and we are the beneficiaries of this plant. Once we are linked and unite then no body could break this bond because our pain and problems are same.

Well done!!!!!! World Pulse, you really became a pulse of our body.Keep us alive.....

I was on the balcony of this apartment earlier and thinking of what I would write about next in my journal. There are so many ideas and things I want to talk about that it is hard sometimes to figure out what to write next.

I wanted to write one about The Cardboard People" and was thinking of how to put it and wondering if it was a good idea when I noticed something colorful just over the wood fence between our apartment buildings. At first I thought it was a sort of kite in the shape of those hot air balloon airplanes and thought what a strange shape for a kite and wondered how they got it to keep going up like that.

We had just watched "The Red Balloon" the day before so a balloon following someone was also in my mind. I realized it was a balloon and not a kite as it glided over the fence and did a cute sort of dance toward me. I went to our door and called the girls to come out quickly. It turned and I saw it was a rose balloon and had to smile.

I love roses and want to breed cold hardy ones for those living up here in Alaska. When we had our house I bought a lot of roses and just really love them. So seeing this rose balloon dancing toward me felt like a sign from the Goddess. I told the girls (2 were in the living room and got to the balcony door quicker then the other 2) that and both asked if I had asked to see a rose or something. I said no, I was just thinking of my journal and wondering if I should write this one article or not. I was teasing one to jump over our balcony rail and catch it for me and the balloon suddenly curved and went between the buildings.

The youngest who had been in her room came out just as it disappeared between the 2 buildings of our parking area. She dashed to the back bedroom to see if she could see it. It had landed in the street in the row of houses behind our building. She wanted to go run and get it for me but I said to let it go.

But the girls said to take it as a "yes" from the Goddess about writing my true thoughts down to share with others. It made me curious how others respond to these sort of signs so decided to post and see what others think about it.

Maria