Since we are all part of the community, we must cooperate and help to clean up and build up a more cheerful, peaceful, happier and friendlier society. There are different types of tasks and ways people can do in order to take a step to make all these pensive and useful dreams come true. As a matter of fact, community service is a typical and compulsory activity in all schools in some of the societies in order to let students graduate from middle school, high school and college by minimum average of 40 hours. I wished we had the same program in Afghanistan, otherwise we would not have these piles of problems all together; this is the best way to build up cooperation and a connection between people of a society.
While I have been in the YSEL camp, a one month leadership program in India, I heard about community service for the first time. Although, It has sounded eccentric to me on that time,I have got familiarized with that word very soon since then. We were supposed to do different projects after we go back to Afghanistan and to try our best to bring changes. They could be any new ideas came up with each person however, possible, useful and not need a large deal of money, such as: teaching some skills we were expert or good at, donating money in order to buy some stuff for orphaned children, cleaning up, and donating blood and etc. Since we came back to Afghanistan, we started doing projects with my friends almost once a month and have had meetings almost once a week. I had felt so proud for my contributions in almost as much possible of them before I came to the USA. Here, I have realized that it is compulsory for all the students to have done completely their community service hours in order to graduate. It was eccentric for me due to lack of having this system in Iran and Afghanistan.
Since then, I have been signing up for some community service opportunities which, in my idea are interesting and related to my favors and talents. I must contribute in them in order to be completely done by the time I will graduate otherwise; I will not be able to graduate till I do all 40 hours. For instance, I and seven other students from Wyoming Seminary Preparatory College School went to a house under construction on October 19th, 2013 in the downtown. The owners of the house were old couples who did not have enough money to pay for workers therefore; they asked for volunteers to take part in the process of building their house. We worked there for seven hours on Saturday with some other people as volunteers who were from the other side of the town, like us, but their senses of humors have brought them there.
It is one of my dreams to suggest this idea to the Ministry of Education Of Afghanistan; hopefully they agree and pass it as a law for all the schools in Afghanistan. By this law, I hope that our ebullient, wise, diligent and thoughtful youths will solve some part of this pile of problems. We will not breath freely and will not have comfort in this land unless; our people, themselves want to change the situation. I believe, we will have one day not far, a peaceful, developed and improvement Afghanistan.
