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Pakistan YES Alumni Initiate Darul Sukoon Community Service Project

Umme Kulsoom spent her year as a YES student at Westminster High School in Maryland. She is currently in the 11th grade at The Saint Joseph's Girls' College. Umme and eight other alumni visited Darul Sukoon, a home for special needs children and adults. Here she shares their experience and how community service inspired her and the other Karachi alumni.

This is true. Taking out some time from your hectic daily routine and sharing some time with people who are disabled is always considered a good deed and it gives you a feeling that you will never forget.

(top left to top right) Sajjad Fahad, Kazim Raza, 2 residents of Darul Sukoon, Taimur Ali, Fatima Rawjani and (bottom left) Fahad Ishtiaq.

After experiencing life in United States of America and exploring the horizon, the entire group from Karachi has set their mind on starting a change in our society. We established the YES alumni network with a mission and a vision to make a difference, using the skills and attitudes acquired during the YES program. We are committed to developing and implementing different alumni activities, and practicing and promoting good citizenship is paramount in all our projects. We all want to help out by voluntary service to our communities. We feel like we are bridges between the two cultures, so we can extract the good points from both worlds and use them to help our society. We believe that we owe it to our country and society because we got the chance to have such experience and we want to repay it by starting a system in which young kids can work and learn the importance of volunteering.

We decided to spend some quality time with the people at Dar-ul-Sukoon which is an orphanage and school for special people located in Karachi and run by a non- governmental organization. At first the kids and the adults were kind of scared to see all of us but when we started to talk to them and entertain them with balloons and candies, it was a very special for them. We also took along cakes, cookies, some snacks and other food. We met Mani, who is a very active child. We spoke just like we were friends. We celebrated his birthday and everyone had birthday

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