Well i’m gettin back to my blog after a long time..I too had those “Ah-nothin-in-my-mind-to-post-on-a-blog” times..A break!!
I thought today would be a better day to restart posting..
I took an off from work cuz..um..no particular reason as such..Just needed some time off..
So i thought i’d do somethin useful today..Talked to one of my frenz and gotta know that there was an orientation program regarding social service in this association called “Youth For Seva”..
The name of the organization seemed pretty familiar cuz i had read about it sometime when i was surfing the web a couple of days ago..SO i thought to give it a shot and i attended it..
Turned out to be a disappointment actually..Major reason was the fact that the orientation was for ppl who were ready to volunteer full-time..Sadly i cant..

So it was pretty much of an info session for me today..However i did take off during the first break..But when i was sitting thru the first session a couple of things hit my mind actually..The person who was orienting us was talkin about a thing where a lot of ppl actually do social service just for recognition..
But a very contradicting thing i felt was the simple fact that whenever anybody goes to an organization to join social service,be it full time or part time, the first thing they do is to orient them to the organization rather than social service..
A simple opinion is that social service is not something u teach in class or by telling ur experiences but is something u have to learn on the go..Quite similar to the “On the job” training given by corporate companies,it would be better to actually learn about social service WHILE doing it instead of sitting in a room and listening to experiences or DISCUSSING it..

Ppl who are novices in Social service, all they can do is analyze the situation by looking at it but not experiencing it..And for ppl like me who lack patience in such things, tend to lose interest cuz there are a lot of formalities of knowing the organization instead of actually helping somebody..
There are a very few places where formalities should be avoided and this should definitely be one of those.

A very hypocritical thing about few of such organizations are that they are more interested in explaining about the organization rather than making the volunteers do social service..
They do not want people to do social service just because they want recognition, but they want their organization to be recognized..Isnt this hypocritical??

A better thing to do by such organizations would be to actually take the novice volunteers directly to the place where they can indeed do some social service instead of trying to explain it to em..Once they actually have an on hand experience about it at least for a couple of times,then it would make sense to discuss about it and take some actions..
One more advantage of this is that if the volunteer is satisfied about the kind of work the organization does, he automatically develops interest in knowing more about the organization..It need not be forced to him..If he doesnt feel they’re doin a good job he would quit and join some other place where he finds solace..
Is this something to be thought of or just my misconception!!

P.S – Youth for Seva do seem to be a promising organization..However no solid opinion from me as of now..Ppl can join it either full time or part time..FYI visit www.youthforseva.org