I've spent many years watching and listening to criticism, opinions. At one point in my life I had the courage to leave to join criticism of games and take action. The fifth decade of my life and a host of circumstances did leave the engine was always there, waiting for a court servant giving them out beyond gestures or statements of intent.
Since my son's school I was involved in this work Rarita, so foreign to the English as volunteering. A delicate ground, half ciudano quicksand.
Volunteering is a group of people, diverse, with very different motivations and objectives apparently disparate share a work and selfless dedication. All or most of them spent a lot of time, money, from both an objective to create fair, honest. Simple: the effort is worthwhile.
Who has not dreamed of saving the world? "No one wants to solve an injustice? there is a point of vulgarity and heroism in some assume these duties freely.
Who has time and desire to have a huge range to choose from. The current outlook is bleak and there is something for everyone: grandparents without family neighborhoods, children with special needs, animals, organizations, material recycling, social consciousness, painting ... there for everyone. Some people march to the antipodes, but there is much to do in the neighborhood, two blocks from home.
Our country, Latin, Mediterranean, individualistic, do not see with good eyes volunteer work. I started school in the world, the association of parents of school (AMPA) of my son as a secretary (a big, mine are the pools with little water and not knowing how to swim). From my beginnings in this world have had to endure all kinds of commentaries, in the school needs of parents who do not know how to educate their own children, demand responses and benefits the rest of society, people who come to me asking how much was paid by my place in the AMPA (and no one asked us or the president or to me the amount of phone bills which we both pay out of pocket, because the AMPA never paid us a sad or can of beer, I can vouch for this) . Constant attacks, poor, no evaluation of work that few offered the rest of the community (data: the annual ordinary general assembly, are barely 20 parents of a school population of 800 children, approximately). Dealing with human
tired me greatly although I know that we are a fascinating species. I think I have great patience and despite my ups and downs with regard to the human race, I try to observe and understand. Beyond this issue came up in my life one that had long been dormant, my irrational affection for nonhuman animals, something that sinks into the roots of my childhood, which has always been there, fascinated by nature, green, no talking , the wild.
is a pity that the many problems that our society has, at all levels, people do not decide to offer a little bit of your time to assist in any of these causes "lost?". Unpaid work looks bad in our culture, is suspect, is subversive, "not normal" ... is even immoral. I have come to mean in the face after they returned from their vacation. Navel-gazing is more socially accepted that offer hours of our lives for nothing, for nothing more than personal satisfaction involved.
In other countries, citizens have a greater sense of solidarity. It is natural for them to spend a few hours a week at various supportive tasks. There is always something that involved slope.
need a change of perception on these issues. We are in a society where life is good, many of us have the basics for survival, shelter, food, hot water, education and even a pool for recreation and a few quirks. Sometimes, the time of a cinema on Saturday evening, dinner money can be a valuable contribution to make others with less fortune for the welfare state fails to attend. Many of those who justify their lack of commitment have no excuse, which does not have is a thirst. It's also OK
: volunteering is a volunteer, a nice word that implies intent, desire to do something without expecting any remuneration.
volunteers because we want, it is clear and beyond dispute. What is outrageous is that question over to a mass of people outside the mainstream public anything against the tide and put their time, money, "a lost cause."
time ago I was leaving the association gradually my son to get into another sphere of action, less socially acceptable, more complex issues: the protection of the animal. For several years volunteering in associations, groups of people struggling to assume a level of consciousness respectful treatment of animals in general and some in particular.
highlight one of my weaknesses, which is the area where I spend my spare time: cats abandoned in the cities.
In this field I have met incredibly good and genuine people with mental illness (in the worst sense) looks at this strange task.
The photos are two cats: Klaus a mediosiamés that humans can not just be liked and Pepa, a mixture of Siamese cat with long hair that some compañaeras rescued from demolition in the district of Clot in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bshe and her 5 beautiful puppies. Klaus
now lives in a farmhouse in a town near Barcelona, \u200b\u200bin semi-freedom, with care and guaranteed supply. Pepa was adopted and now lives in Germany. Of the 5 puppies, one died of pneumonia and the rest were taken, mostly in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bsome of them went to Germany for adoption.
The work never ends ... and we must save the world, there is no boredom and laziness to fix both.
