Ek Kadam- “ Things will Change”
By: Muhammad Hammad Javed
Tags: One Step, Self Defense, Poverty, Counseling, Opportunity

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world.”

So, after putting our 60 second pitch in the virtual meeting regarding mega project, our group witnessed many amazing ideas from everyone. In every idea, there was something that reflected their emotions towards community services and issues that our society is facing. I first listened to the fellow members and in the end placed my pitch in front of them. This is the idea about which I discussed few things in my previous blog already. Actually it was a pitch of 60 seconds. But when I started presenting my pitch, everyone started liking it and started relating it to their own personalities. As it’s name Ek Kadam is so diverse.

i) Why there is a need of Ek Kadam?

ii) What kind of initiative it is?

iii) How it came into my mind?

iv) And why is it so diverse that at the end of session it had all the votes for the best mega project topic for Group 3 Batch 173 -Amal Academy?

You will get all the answers when you get to know about the initiative behind this idea. So let’s embarked on this journey. When my 5th semester of BSc Mechanical Engineering started , I started thinking that I should start working on something different or I must have my own startup. So, every night I plunged into the black hole of my brain . Later on, I came up with 2 to 3 ideas. Then I started thinking about the possible ways to accomplish them . You can say two were Entrepreneurial ideas that are meant to earn and 1 idea is to do something for my society, my community and for my Pakistan. As our country Pakistan is facing many social issues that hinder it’s way to progress. So any issue just need one step to resolve. These issues include lack of skilled personnels , lack of guidance towards education , lack of career counseling of our youth, poverty, illiteracy, rape and women harassment cases are top on the list.

The main idea of Ek Kadam is SDP (Skills Development Program). To teach skills life MS Ofiice, freelancing, Content writing , Adobe Illustrator for Graphics Designing to the students of secondary and Inter along with the proper guidance and counseling regarding their future. This initiative will help the students to avail the opportunities once they have proper mindset about their future and can also utilize these skills in future to become financially independent.

The target audience is especially students of 9th,10th, 1st Year and 2nd Year with less guidance and opportunities. And in this time of pandemic where every thing is shifted virtually. We will proceed through virtual platforms like youtube, facebook and instagram and when everything gets back to normal we will visit orphanages low standard schools .

The initiative behind it is to make the students skillful and more aware with the pros and cons of the things. This will eradicate the roots of illiteracy and child labor in our society.

Furthermore, by visiting such places we will also have small activities sessions and self defense seminars in which we will teach self defense techniques, how to tackle such situations and other techniques especially to girls and children. This step is to stop sexual harassment and rape in our society.

So in short, virtually we will career counsel them, guide them to take their step in future with more clear mindset. And to make small guidance tutorial like videos on skills that we want them to learn. So everything will cover under the same roof. And by visit to the orphanages and other places we will bring our laptops their in case if there will be no such facility there to let them practice the skills.

Previously, few months back I made a video on self defense after Lahore motorway incident, and I spread it to the best of my strength and get many positive feedbacks. So , if our group of 5 will start spreading on their behalf we can leave impact and can have access to more people.

The main purpose behind this initiative is to sort out all the social issues that currently our country is facing. And In sha Allah, Allah will help us to put our idea into in person efforts.