Undergraduate / Activities Since Secondary School FCM, PIIM ("Great-minded people") [4]

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The book named "Great-minded people" molds my trait of volunteerism. I learned the feeling of empathy towards those in needs, the noble characteristics of great-minded people, especially Mother Teresa, and the pleasure of fulfilling the necessities of those in needs. However, after serving the community via non-government organizations, I fully grasped the first-hand experience of volunteering.

The first organization I started to work is the Peace Interfaith Initiative of Myanmar, which is abbreviated as PIIM. As the core mission of PIIM is helping all people in needs regardless of religion, I worked as a young tutor to teach children English in various religious buildings such as churches, temples, mosques and monastic schools. Apart from distributing education, I also actively engaged in donating stationery, clothes and food to those children.

Next, I became a member of another organization, FCM. Because of FCM, I had a chance to deal with orphans, and sympathize their feeling, particularly that of growing up without a trace of parental love. As my role was to teach them how to spend their leisure hour beneficially, I chose to teach origami to them. Out of a sudden, I was really shocked when a girl put her arms around my waist; I, however, embraced her with as much kindness of a sister as I could manage. At that time, I realized how great their thirst for love was, and my addiction of community service rooted in my heart as well.

I worked as a volunteer in Tharapar, which is a non-profit library. I took part in the project of "Water Donation" which was cooperated with another group, Save The Aged. According to the project, we distributed water to villages that were suffered from drought in summer of 2010. The image of desperately running villagers to water-bottles-filled cars still raced in my mind. That very image is also part of a reason that I am still