Question

you and your friends volunteered your services to help an ngo taking care of people affected by recent natural disasters. Write a diary entry describing your feelings and experiences in course of your volunteers work

Answer 1

Sunday

November 12, 2017

10:30 p.m.

Dear Diary:

I have been quite busy these days. Actually I along with my friends have been working with an NGO in the relief work for the flood victims. The floods this year took everyone by surprise. The condition in the rural areas is quite serious. So the Government has converted the schools and colleges in our city as flood relief centers. On the appeal of the Government, many NGOs and students are taking active part in the relief work. My friend and I have been helping in the food distribution work among the flood victims. Our job is to pack the food and go to different centers and distribute the packets among the victims. I derive so much satisfaction out of the work. Today I along with other volunteers went to a college where flood victims have been stationed temporarily until the situation returns to normalcy. I felt sorry for them. I derived so much contentment in having got an opportunity to contribute in the relief work. I pray to God for the normalcy of life conditions in the flood affected area.

Answer 2

Monday, 5th  December2015,

I will never forget how rain lashed the city of Chennai on 2nd December.  My friend and I immediately jumped into action.  We could not get information because everything had come to standstill.  Flood water had entered to 2nd and 3rd floor of certain houses.  We got information only through Radio

We joined hands with a local NGO and went on a rescue mission of removing families to a safer place.  I found a woman who was nine month pregnant trying to wade through the water to a safer place.  We had a boat, we helped her to get into the boat and this was done with great difficulty.

We found families on top of a terrace begging for water to drink.  Like our group, there were many volunteers who had plunged into action.  They supplied water through choppers.  We also were informing the radio station, which was doing the service of passing information as to where the help was needed.

We heard a radio message stating that the area we were, a family with two kids and an old lady is trying to survive because the water has reached the neck level.  We went with our boat there and found that the father had placed his kids and his mother on top of a shelf and has somehow passed this message.  We rescued them, did first-aid and gave warm blankets to cover.

For the next ten days, this had been our only work and the satisfaction of helping will last for lifetime.  Chennai floods, apart from disaster, brought out the unity in the Youth!