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Filling the Cracks
i did health outreach for underserved communities pro bonno with AAAN and SWYC, most of the work i did was with immigrants and the vast majority of that was with catholics from spain. I'll be honest, it was rare indeed that i did any dawah. but we did what we could. which wasn't all that much.
the health care networks are stupefiengly bad, there are cracks so big you could loose an AirBus in them.
We do what we can, but it always seems the issue is not a lack of service, but an inability to put relevant people and necesary contacts together. there are God knows how many groups doing the same thing in the same neighborhood but the poeple they are meant to serve have no idea they exist. and thought the organizations could all use an extra hand, the people that want to help have no idea that the organizations exist or, if they do, have no idea how to contact them.
it is not an issue of lack, but rather of failed distribution, awareness, and ability to acess available resources.
fix this, and you go a long way to filling the wholes in service, and improving much of the problems that plauge us.
the question is, how does one fix this?
it seems that this can be a advertisement/PR/Word of mouth project. but we are notoriously bad at getting the word out beyond our small contact areas and networks.
how to fix????
the health care networks are stupefiengly bad, there are cracks so big you could loose an AirBus in them.
We do what we can, but it always seems the issue is not a lack of service, but an inability to put relevant people and necesary contacts together. there are God knows how many groups doing the same thing in the same neighborhood but the poeple they are meant to serve have no idea they exist. and thought the organizations could all use an extra hand, the people that want to help have no idea that the organizations exist or, if they do, have no idea how to contact them.
it is not an issue of lack, but rather of failed distribution, awareness, and ability to acess available resources.
fix this, and you go a long way to filling the wholes in service, and improving much of the problems that plauge us.
the question is, how does one fix this?
it seems that this can be a advertisement/PR/Word of mouth project. but we are notoriously bad at getting the word out beyond our small contact areas and networks.
how to fix????
Comments on this journal
that's why i feel that this village is important..i think if we all put our heads together and talk about what works and what doesn't it gives us important insight into how to plan for the future. and also making contacts that we can network with
I believe that fixing the problem will come with time, patience and persistence.
I think what we can do is start small and build with time, for me right now its about trying to get ideas, build a network and become a more successful person so that when i put my name on something it becomes credible and there will be likely donors.
also, i believe that building something solid like a building is more likely to last than doing relief work out of temporary clinics...the reasons being that eventually a government sector will start to fund it, people are more likely to donate to an existing structure and it will provide employment for locals and international volunteers
i am very impressed by what some of our village members have posted so far..i myself haven't done a whole lot of humanitarian work other than volunteer work for the MS society and being involved in my faculty for fundraisers etc (non alcoholic events only...pharmacists are very rowdy!)
i'd love to hear more, learn and discuss more about these subjects so please keep the ideas flowing :)