Human Rights
Human Rights: My Humanitarian Endeavor — Overview
A quick look into the life path I had taken over the last 8 years.
Few will know the feeling of having life set up and ready for you to take flight — literally. I have had applied for pilot school at 19 and was a month away until my first class started. Life, however, had a different plan.
After a night out where I had attended a drug-fueled trance party in the woods, I witnessed the hospitalization of a helpless girl who due to overdosing had collapsed multiple times on the ground in front of me and ended up in a coma. The sheer uncaring attitude of those around her, her friends who laughed and teased her, sobered me up. I had come to the realization that all is not well in this society.
It was at this time that I began my search for a different path, I had always been understanding of people and if I could provide help I would. I came across a Human Rights NGO based in the US with offices around the globe that taught the fundamentals of human rights and other social betterment programs to different communities. I applied, did the first interview, and swallowed the sad thought of being a volunteer doing this. But a part of me knew it was for the better.
I will plug in here that most people don't even KNOW their Human Rights. It is not taught in schools yet provides the very liberation that forms the foundation for peaceful living.
Have a look here to see these in action:
Once the training became I became intrigued and I rapidly grew to an understanding of why this is needed. Fast forward 2 months later, I had been trained on the basics of the programs and at the time the head office was recruiting an energetic, dynamic, and trained team to expand its reach worldwide. That is when my first flight out of my home country took place. I headed straight to the US and trained up as a senior educator.
It was now time for my first tour. The first community I visited was in a village in Taiwan called Fushan village. This is Taiwan’s most populated village with 43,400 people and an area of 1.8 square kilometers.
This was also the first time I had to speak (with an interpreter) to a group larger than 100 people, in fact, it was over 4000 men, women and children. The topics of our talks would be relevant to the issues at hand in that community but fundamentally would cover our most important rights, our Human Rights.
The feeling of inspiring hope, not just in children but in adult men and women had set off a chain reaction in my heart and from there I knew this was a purpose line I was truly carrying out.
From there I had visited communities in North Australia, Southern Africa, and more places in East Asia.
Each time we left an area we kept several vital statistical data relevant to that area and our educational approach. Among these were statistics like the rate of crime from the local police, education data, drug use statistics and an interesting statistic similar to the Gross National Happiness Index — a statistic that measures an area’s happiness level. If these statistics got better we had, for all intents and purposes, achieved what we set out to do.
And believe me, they had improved, on a consistent basis.
Eventually, I was promoted to becoming a program manager and started running social betterment programs from an Australian office. This continued all the way towards the end of 2019.
In this time I can proudly say I had personally visited over 100 different communities in need of social betterment education, spoken to hundreds of thousands of people, had managed over 20 teams to deliver education in other 2,000 communities and in total volunteered 8 years to provide help to the people of this world.
After looking at what else I wanted to accomplish this lifetime I ended up leaving to start a new life path. I will forever be deeply involved with the Human Rights organizations I worked with and worked for and I’ll always cherish those who want to make a difference!
Human Rights Organizations
Here are some organizations spreading the message of liberation, fighting battles behind the scenes, providing truth across the nations of the world and, ultimately spreading peace:
- Amnesty International — https://www.amnesty.org/en/
- Human Rights Watch — https://www.hrw.org/
- Human Rights Foundation — https://hrf.org/
- United for Human Rights — https://www.unitedforhumanrights.org.za/
- Youth for Human Rights — https://www.youthforhumanrights.org/
