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Reflection on Amal Totkay
By: Ayesha Ismail
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Amal Totkay

I find these 5 tips very informative because these tips are the small factors that matter a lot. We can make use of each one of these tips in our daily lives.

Having a positive and growth mindset really plays a very important role in our lives. If we think positively then our mind and body will also behave positively. We should believe in ourselves and have faith that everything will work out in time. We should always push ourselves to get out of the comfort zone because it will help us to grow and evolve. We can not grow in one day. It a long process and it takes time so we should develop some hobbies that will help us in growing and evolving. We should also make use of every opportunity that we get and should never be ashamed about asking people for help. Also, we should be confident enough to be competent that our body shows that I know what’s happening and I got this.

I think that all these 5 tips are very useful and honestly, I won’t mind applying them all in my daily life. The most favorite tips till now are self-talk and get out of your comfort zone.

I have already started implementing on the above-mentioned two tips in my daily life.

In order to develop a growth mindset first, we should have to be patient. Secondly, We should have an open mindset. Thirdly, we should not get fixed on one thought that only I am right, everyone else is wrong. The truth is we can also be wrong and there is no point to get defensive when others are giving us feedback or correcting us.

these are my reflection on Amal tips. hope you enjoyed reading them.

Thank you for your time. ❤
Poverty – – – a Major Problem in Our Country
By: Noor Un Nisa
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Amalkindness

Poverty in Pakistan has reached to a dangerous level. Joblessness is also rising with the passage of time. Every third person is not even able to earn enough money to bring and eat three times per day. People are living their lives hand to mouth. In result, begging is also a common issue seen in our country. BUT, there are also some people who do not beg for money or food in front of anyone. They only eat one time per day hardly. Also there are are some families who have only one person who is earning and meeting the needs of 8–10 family members…and due to any illness or some genuine reason, he is also not able to earn and they are living in pitiable situation.

Whenever I see such people, my heart feels the pain of them and I want to do something for them.

So, I decided to take a small initiative for them. I am thinking about making a small charitable organization in which we will ask for funds from affordable families of the society. From the money we will collect through funding, we will be able to buy a cart (vegetable cart, or fruit cart) to one member of deserving family. On this cart we will also arrange vegetables of a handome amount so that he can start earning by selling vegetables walking theough streets and roads and may be able to meet the basic necessities of life like food, clothes and shelter etc

My problem statement

Poverty is increasing in our country day by day. In result if that most of the people are not able to meet their basic needs like food etc. So I want to make a charitable organization in which through funding, we will buy vegetable carts to the deserving families so that they cam earn and meet their needs of living

Firstly we will set a target that we will buy at least three carts per month. In this way, we will be able to meet the needs pf three families. In this way, we also can help people to eat at least two times a day. It can bring no big difference but it can create a little positive change.

But with the passage of time, and depending on the funding that we will be collecting, we can increase the amount of buying vegetable carts for families. In sha Allah

When I was thinking about my plan, I felt really satisfied that I am going to serve the society. As we all know, what Allah gives us, it is not totally ours, It also contains the part of poors around us. We have responsibilty of others on us. So I am hoping that I might be able to implement my planing in future and serve the poor people of society. In sha Allah
The Problem I Care About
By: Sheraz Nadeem
Tags: Cold War, Blogging, Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Blog

The world-facing many problems like health, education, businesses, etc. Every country faces its own issue like most African countries faces poverty issues, most country faces Education issues. But the world scenario has been changed because every country wants to work with first world countries, third world countries people want to go to these countries and looking for a job.

Today High ranked countries fight with technology, not weapons. this war is called the Cold War. Nowadays the world looking to a very famous dialogue war it's totally based on Technology between China and the USA.

Cold War ”China and USA”

Now I discuss the problem I care about, the problem is totally related before I discuss it. I hope you understand what problem I want to discuss. Yes, Exactly you are right, I care about the Technology of Pakistan.

Today many countries being very speedy innovation in technology and being very super achievements in world business markets. I want to deliver a message to my Pakistani Youth please don't focus only on book knowledge. I know book knowledge is a trend in Pakistani Institutes. But now it's time to change and look toward the world and technology. A big example of China, China is my neighbor country, and it's independent after our independence. But now china is nearly becoming a superpower. China makes innovations and gives skillfully knowledge of youth.

Pakistani Youth is a very talented youth but I want to tell our youth to change their mindsets and become more comfortable with tech knowledge. Technology is a new world power, not a weapon.

GOP (Ministry of IT)

China builds a very famous company of online business named Alibaba.com. This is a big e-commerce company, running a business all over the world. This is a one-click company that delivers all kinds of shipments all over the world.

Technology is all based on skill and practice learning. Our Pakistani youth had a passion to work. Pakistani youth are very hard worker youth. Now we just show them the right path to Our Pakistani Youth.

Through Seminars, Webinars, Online classes, YouTube sessions, FaceBook, etc we can deliver the knowledge to youth.

Now My request to IT Experts of Pakistan to deliver more knowledge and motivate them and Youth also give them.

Software Houses

Thank you so much for reading my blog, I hope you enjoying it and give me feedback……!!!!!!
Gender Equality
By: Maryam Zulfiqar
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Megaprojects

We live in a society where we are treated based on our genders where we were to be treated as humans.Gender is something on which none of us has control.Then why are we made inferior or superior based on the gender which we have no control over? Here my problem of concern is about transgender. It is such a major issue which very few talks about.They are being treated brutally by the society and even their very own family(beaten with sticks, tied with ropes, harassed).Their family abandons them which as a result ruins their life. Nobody wants a life of harassment, insults, nonacceptance, mocking, abundance. Nobody with their choice chooses to work as a toy for others. They deserve a life where they can earn in a respectable manner.

Following photos are taken from google

They should be treated as Humans too.

Don’t hate them on something which they didn’t decided to be.

They have a right to live a normal life.

We are all well aware of the fact that an empty stomach makes you do things that you never imagined you could and that’s what exactly makes them do things which they don’t want to.So, Our goal for this project is to provide job opportunities to transgender by making them learn different skills and by using those skills to make different products and sale them.While searching on this issue I came up with the Center in Lahore named as “THE GENDER GUARDIAN” established by a group of friends in which transgenders are made learn various skills and are also provided with jobs.So, In order to solve this issue we can reach out to the transgenders who are often seem begging at various places and can aware them of the opportunity that they can avail and also help them sale their products. Beside providing the job opportunities one main thing that we all need to practice is acceptance. If only we can show acceptance none of the transgender will be abandoned from their houses, none of them will have to beg or get Involve in various unwanted activities. The problem only starts with nonacceptance nature that creates massive lifelong problems for transgenders that we may our-self be not aware of.Instead of just treating someone based on their genders lets just be Humans, show humanity and treat as humans.
Reflection on Amal Totka
By: Muhammad Arslan
Tags: Amal Fellowship

Amal Totka are the footstep for any success like if you want to gain success in any field first you should ask yourself in order to find your “WHY’s”.

Then you must take step out of your comfort zone. comfort zone to step in area where first you feel shyness due to lack of confidence.

Then try to adopt new habits which demand your passion from you.

Then you also need to ask people if you feel any difficulty about any matter.

Last but not the least is that you must stuck with your “WHY’s” in every situation if you actually want to complete it otherwise you will not be able to chase your passion.

Takeaways for these Amal Totka are just like the footsteps of stair mean first Totka first step then go on. My favorite Totka is “ FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT” because I think this is the most crucial part and without this there is no advantage of above tips. From the Amal Totka I work on first Totka (SELF TALK) regularly and I hope I will follow these very soon. They can help in developing Growth mindset because they force us to come out of our comfort zone and try to think innovatively.
Getting Closer to Mega project Problem
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy

Getting closer to mega project problem

Hello folks!

We humans are busy doing different tasks everyday and looking for opportunities which benefit us. And i believe thats this Amal fellowship is one of those opportunities one can look for. After learning amal values and its time to pratice them and this opportunity comes in the form of mega projects. Two month long time period where we will be writing 2 blogs and giving final presentation. But before that we need to decide what to do. The subject of Mega project may be either social welfare based or something related to enterpreneurship. So what touched me more was a social welfare.

Problem statement:

Subject: Quality Education (SDGs)

In this world of technological advancements our education system has become mechanic. Self-discovery through love for nature, art, social work, country and Islam have gone to extinct and are superficial. Schools, colleges and universities have devised curriculum which is insufficient for professional and personal development. So in this very time we need to work individually and as a team to bring back life to youth by empowerment through knowledge and not with mere data and information.

Self discovery

Theory of Change:

If we want to bring back life to our youth we need to give them platform and personal trainings on individual basis to better understand and reflect than to cram and vomit and getting straight out of the academic institutions. Change is only possible if we come out of the way and spend some time by reflection through our journeys.

Theory of change

Key partners: Non- profit organizations, schools, colleges, universities, volunteers

Government High School, dera ghazi khan

Ghazi university, dera ghazi khan

2. Key activities: Self-discovery, love for nature, art, social work, country and Islam through in person sessions, trainings, online resource.

Nature

3. Value proposition: Business — Customer: Exchanging values and gaining happiness

Happiness

4. Customer segment: Social handles i.e. fb, email etc.

social media

5. Revenue stream: As its mainly financing time but still it can be self finance and collaborations with government and public funded programs

finance

Well, its been a great experience brainstorming about social issues and the things which i felt a connection too. But unfotunately i could not visit schools or other academic institutions due to covid. Futhermore I belive that my idea is quite diverse but its the need of hour and i would definately like to work on it in future as well. And i want it to be more specific with plan to action, strategic approach towards solving the problem with defined milestones in near future along my circles. But Ek ar Ek arr gayara.

If i defined my project in a single word i can say its about Khudi. We are living like robots without self reflections.

A journey to self discovery

I wish that i am able to pursue it in future and Allah almighty helps me take this initiative.
A hint of MEGA PROJECT Problem in AMAL Fellowship
By: Engr Shayan Ahmad
Tags: Startup, Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Covid 19, Entrepreneurship

In our 3rd project work, we are assigned to bring solutions to some societies problems or gaps that we think we can solve them with our creativity. Some of my solutions to problems are as under.

1. Home Kitchen

Problem Statement I have observed professional people and students living in hostels (away from their home and family), often have to compromise on home-made.

Origin of Idea: Many of people who have lived a life in hostel can relate to it. One of my friend told me a story about how they hired an AUNT (commonly Aunti) living near their hostel to cook for them in exchange of money. So both parties were quite happy. My friends were enjoying home-made delicious food and Aunti was earning money by working from home.

Solution: We can create an online platform by making home-based housewives to cook for hostel-based professionals and students and deliver them these delicious homemade food items. Our items will be cost effective and hygienic and fresh too.

Discussion: I have discussed my idea with many relatable people and they have share the following views on this.

Food panda is already doing it. How will housewives will agree to cook? The idea is amazing if it starts functioning What will be the quality check? How much capital will be required for this setup?

2. Freelance Outsource Site

Problem Statement: Many of successful freelancers of Pakistan who are earning quite successfully through sites like Fiverr and Upwork, likes to outsource their orders to others freelancers at lesser rates through Facebook or Whatsapp groups.

Solution: We can create a site for such tasks and mainstream all these buying and selling of tasks and works.

Discussion: I have discussed my idea with many relatable people and they have share the following views on this.
Reflection on Amal Totkay
By: Shehryar Ahmad
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy

Amal Academy proposes five simple but quite useful totkay. Totkay means “quick tricks or manners.” These approaches are going to help a lot in our future.

1- Self Talk: Self help starts with self talk. If you want to help yourself, first be clear what your mind requires from you. Before understanding and communicating with others, understanding and communicating with yourself is important. As it will gives you clear agenda to talk and communicate with others. Indeed, self talk leads to self reflection.

2- Get Out of Your Comfort Zone: When in your comfort zone, your brain doesn’t want anything to change. … Getting out of your comfort zone from time to time creates just enough good stress to ramp up your focus, creativity, pace, and drive, and it helps you respond to life stress when unexpected things happen.

3- Create New Habits: Not only are habits important. They grow stronger and stronger over time and become more and more automatic. So make sure you have the right ones! Habits are so powerful because they create neurological cravings: A certain behavior is rewarded by the release of “pleasure” chemicals in the brain. That is why creating new habits is so much important.

4- Ask People Help: Asking for help allows us to surround ourselves with people who can make us feel good and facilitate further development. These people create optimism and hope that we are able to deal with challenging situations, which improves our resilience. In this way asking people for help is good for us.

5- Fake It Till You Make It: While we’re all green at some point in our careers or life, there’s something to be said for faking it till you make it. Imitating knowledge, experience, confidence, and savvy can actually change your real-life behavior in a positive way. Pretend you know more than you do, and eventually you will. This is how “fake it till you make it” strategy works.
AMAL TOTKAY FOR LIFE
By: Saleeha Afzal
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Amal Totkay

I'm very excited to share amal totkay as my motto is also related to this in life

SELF-TALK

change your thoughts and you will change the world

its important that we should talk to ourselves standing in front of the mirror and start talking so that we should eliminate negative thoughts and have our mind filled with positive vibes

2. GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

challenges often bring out the best abilities within you. to grow we have to face the problems and expand our mind’s universe

3. CREATE NEW HABITS

learn till your death means learn something new everyday adding new skills and habits in your life is making you strong in professional as well as personal life

4. ASK PEOPLE HELP

there is no shame in asking help from other people as both the person asking and helping will learn something new. A person should have enough courage to ask help through that development can be started

5. FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT

it is most important because if you are achieving something and somehow you didn't it will feel bad and discouraged for you. As they say work hard in quietness tell the world with success.

my favorite tip is no 5. because it is a personal tip for me I used to do this a lot in my life but as I started implementing the Amal fellowship trust me my this habit started to decreased and due to this I'm getting very positive aura around me thank you Amal
“It is a disorder, not a decision”.
By: Alishba Tahir
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Spread Positivity

Today, I have come up with something so close to my heart. I have always thought of doing something for welfare but was not able to initiate anything. I’m so glad that I enrolled in Amal fellowship program that is making all my goals and dreams come true.

The problem which I have observed so scrupulously in our society is related to mental illness. And no, I am not addressing adults here. I am solely talking about children. Among all children, 6.8% have attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). 3.5% have oppositional defiance disorder and conduct disorder. 3% have depression. Yes, you read it right. Children are depressed too. 2.1% have anxiety disorder. 1.1% have autism spectrum disorder and the list goes on. And the irony is that , 79% of children with mental health disorders DON’T RECEIVE TREATMENT.
My Reflection On Amal’s 5 TotkaYS
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Amal Totkay

My Reflection On Amal’s 5 TotkaYS

Totakys are the very old traditional ways to find out solution for problems and have widely been used and are still in practice in South Asian Countries. These are the tricks that are used to come up with things in a easier way.

Amals tokays are really important when applied in life, they are helpful and may lead us to have an understanding and dealing difficult situations.

How I found Amal Totkays and My Fav Amal totka

Although all of the the Amal totkays are very important in our lives but I feel they all begin to work when we start to develop a growth mindset, a growth mind is very important to bring positivity in our lives. A growth mind not only help us tackle problems but also keep us motivated in hard situations, it helps us come out of our growth zone, helps us create new healthy habits, makes us challenging, gives us to have courage to ask and question and helps us achieve all in our lives.

The Take away from Amal Totkays

The Amal totkays are very important in our daily lives, they help us understand the necessities of staying positive , having the growth mind in our lives, pushing our selves out of our comfort towards learning and growth zone where majority of us fear facing problems. They help us change our mindset about dealing situations and reinforce new and better habits doing tasks that we feel uncomfortable with, help us take suggestions, guidance when in trouble, let us believe on our credentials and capabilities that we own encouraging us towards task in our lives.

What Amal totkay I have started implementing in my life today?

Although all of the Amal totkays are important but since I believe a growth mind is all that is necessary to lead our selves into a successful carrier. I have been pushing myself towards positivity , started learning more by putting myself into tougher equations.

By pushing myself out of my comfort zone, staying positive, believing myself I can lead towards a growth zone from today.
Social Entrepreneurship-Mega Project
By: Muhammad Uzair
Tags: Ideasworthsharing, Soical Entrepreneurship, Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Megaprojects

Not having access to the marketplace Artisans from local communities are deprived form a basic source of income and are forced to live substandard in spite of possessing skills.

Pakistan is such a country where the national poverty ratio, which was 31.3% in June 2018, had jumped to over 40% by June 2020 this percentage does include such families who have skilled full peoples deprived of opportunities and are forced to live below the line.

My idea is about creating an online selling platform where artwork and other stuff made by the people in the marginalized communities of Pakistan would be procured and sold at a profit and a major portion of the profit to be shared with them to support sustainability and provide encouragement regarding artwork and enhanced use of skills.

A sample of the local artwork

Handicrafts of Pakistan are very well recognized because of the wonderful visuals and excellent textures. Some of these products include Carpets, Earthen Pots, Tiles, Khussa, Woodcarvings, etc.

Mesmerizing art Work

Pandemic, Present Scenario and Challenges:

The pandemic situation has led to several challenges to the idea as the travel restrictions and economic crises remain. This idea requires a great deal of travelling in order to reach such individuals who have artwork skills and are encouraged to avail the opportunity. Following that the goods have to be procured from them or to be made available at the online market plat from. On the other hand, the overall economic conditions remain uncertain which leaves a question mark on the success of this idea.
Smart technology will help PAKISTANIS
By: Muhammad Bilal
Tags: Amal Fellowship

Due to lack of SMART technology we are facing problems in power sectors,high cost effect the poor, they can not afford electricity and high cost of electricity high price bills.

By doing activity of getting closer to your mega project help me in finding gapes in the society and it gives as the essence of the life of poor, we experienced the issue of poor society and there problems.

Basically Pakistanis are the SMART people and they just need hands and motivations. We are in the country where 70% people are in the boarder of the poverty, a little problem make them poor.

If we talk about remaining 30%, they are already poor, they can not even get there food how will they afford high bills of electricity. We need to think out of the box for them, we have to provide them free electricity ab means of renewable technology.

Due to above problems of poor they face many difficulties some are in the pictures below.

No electricity NO education

I visited one of the village in Karachi where this man was studying in dark because they cant afford high bills of electricity and if they pay them even then 18 hours of load shedding makes them unhappy.

sindh village

This village is situated in the main sindh. They do not have electricity and with the help of 60 watt solar panel this home can feel happiness.

High Bills

Due to lack of the use of Smart technology we face many problems like getting high bills of lac million rupees for no reason and many time we just waste electricity

SMART POWER SYSTEM

With the help of IoT we can make our load management much better with the help of IoT we can just need to CODE some Micro controllers (Arduino) and this controller will decide which appliances need to operate on priority basis.

Smart metering is another solution of the power sector problem. SIM base prepaid system should be introduce in Pakistan just need to scratch card and buy units.

My experience with this activity was brilliant and i have my clear vision with what i have to do for this country and what this country is facing.
Youth Empowerment Forum; Getting Closer to Mega Project
By: Muhammad Jamal Asghar
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Youth Development, Counseling, Megaprojects

As for the Amal Mega Project, we have to think of an interesting and impactful project, so I came up with the idea of “Youth Empowerment Forum” I also call it as “Youth Entrepreneurship Forum”.

Before going into the details of WHY I want to work on this let’s have a problem statement.

Due to lack of proper counselling bodies, rapid development and change in dynamics of the world and the existing generation gap, students especially of universities are facing many problems related to career choices, skills development (personal and interpersonal) and getting close to their passion. This is creating hopelessness, stress accumulation, anxiety and depression among the youth. I want to make a forum or platform where youth can openly discuss their problems and get real time solution from the professionals and also from fellow youth. This idea can be incorporated both as Non-Profit Social Welfare or Entrepreneur Business Idea and can be mixture of both. The motto is “WORKING FOR THE SOCIETY”.

This Youth Empowerment Forum can work on these areas while incorporating professionals of the relevant fields:

Counselling (career + Psychological) Skills Development (Professional + Interpersonal) Awareness Campaigns (Mental Health, Animal Violence, Child Abuse, etc.)

Keeping this idea in mind I have conducted a survey on Facebook and I received an enormous response showing that there is a dire need for this platform and youth want these issues to be addressed with immediate effect as they are suffering from stress and anxiety because of these issues.

Following questions (See Figure 01) were asked on the Survey:

Figure 01. Survey on Understanding Youth Issues.

I received many feedbacks all of these are very difficult to share but I am sharing here some of the responses and the rest of the responses are shared on the drive whose link I have shared in case someone wants to have a look.
AMAL Totkay:
By: Taqwa Ahmad
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy

Being a Pakistani, we all know the meaning of totkay. Totkay is the pure URDU language work that’s mean tricks, ways or foible to understand anything about which we concern.

I feel excited to write something about AMAL Totkay in this blog.

AMAL focuses on a growth mindset, staying positive, work together, and never hesitate to ask questions.

To do something or to learn something we all need to take steps. Small steps lead us towards our destination. We all are at AMAL and want to learn something.

LET STEP INSIDE TO AMAL TOTKAY

AMAL totkay includes a lot but here we specified some of them to get to know about them. And discuss my takeaways.

1. Self-Talk

2. Get out of your comfort zone.

3. Ask people for help.

4. Just start.

5. Positivity

Self-talk is simply your self-reflection. From AMAL I learned that how you reflect on your life and think about it that what you have learned any new or productive thing in that specific day or week. I tried my best sometimes by writing or sometimes only by thinking I reflect my all-day activities.

Get out of your comfort zone is a key to success. Before knowing Amal’s toolkit, I was the kind of person who does not want to move out of her comfort zone. I was really eager to read books and at this time I am reading a book and really enjoyed it this leads me toward creating new habits.

Ask for help: I am a little overthinker and think a lot about this if I ask a question then what will they think about me but from Amal, I recognize that by asking questions mostly no one can think about you but they definitely think about solving your problem.

Just start an activity helping me to think about not be worried about success or failure and just start my journey. It is helpful, and I am wanting to apply this in every step of my life.

Positivity is the last but not the least AMAL tootka I think if you think positively then you can talk positively that leads you to do your work positively. The main thing of positivity that attracts me during the one-month journey is taking your feedback as a gift. And all of Amal totkye is the result of positivity.

BEST OF LUCK,
Reflection on Amal Totkay
By: Muhammad Rafay
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Amal Totkay

My favorite tip from Amal’s totkay is getting out of my comfort zone as it will make us test our abilities which otherwise will not be possible. GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE’ sounds like an easy phrase to throw around, but sometimes advice is easier to give than to take.

What I have learned is that freedom comes from trying something new and from getting out of your box. It may seem uncomfortable at first but it definitely brings joy and excitement later.

Also, fake it till you make it. Putting a smile on your face and pretending that you are happy when you are not will make you forget that you were feeling low and eventually you will start feeling better if not completely fine.
Project 1: Getting closer to your Mega project problem
By: Hafiz Awais Rasool
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy

Project 1: Getting closer to your Mega project problem

Goal; I want to work on the education of children who are not able to get education due to financial problems. It is feared that without education they can take criminal action

I have visited such an area of Faisalabad. I have interacted with people. Where people live whose monthly income is 20,000 to 25,000. In this they barely survive, 75% of this income goes to bills and other things like Rashan etc. They send their children to school or college somehow but after that they cannot find any good tuition center because they cannot afford high fees. They are forced to work to fulfill the expenses of their home.

This is the big issue in our country where there are very good educational institutes and children are getting education in these reputed institutes and on the other hand there are many children who are unable to get education because they do not have enough source of income to go to school. if they are able to go to school after that they have to do part time job. They are unable to concentrate on their studies.

The power of education is undeniable all across the world, both socially and personally, in both developing and developed countries. It has even been referred to by the U.N. as the universal “passport to human development.” With that in mind, here are some of the most thought-provoking and inspiring quotes on education, from several well-known and important figures across time,

“So let us wage a global struggle against illiteracy, poverty, and terrorism, and let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons.”

– Malala Yousafzai It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

– Maya Angelou

We have to take steps to progress our country and community. States with higher levels of educational attainment also have crime rates lower than the national average.

So I Will build a tuition center and i will attach the educated People with me so that that can carry this work forward with me. I will convince those people who are financially strong to support those students who are good in studies but do not have the money. I am working on a smaller scale but I want to take it on a larger scale.

In Sha ALLAH 💝
The Issue of Traffic in Pakistan
By: Muaaz Saeed
Tags: Traffic, Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Traffic Issues, Pakistan

This major issue is caused by lack of public transportation and people not following traffic rules. Drivers drive recklessly. The traffic police mostly disappear, the roads are left abandoned where the police are utmost needed, or do not bother to monitor about the ruthless drivers as they put lives of the passengers at risk. This is due to a lack of civic sense in people which results in violation of traffic rules and laws. There is an ignorance of the traffic signs like Zebra Crossing, One-way, Stop, Parking, etc. Ambulances are not given space to go through the way, and it is risky for the serious patients inside the ambulance, drivers must reach hospital as quick as possible to save patients’ life. The number of road accidents is also growing apart from pedestrians facing a lot of inconvenience while crossing a road. The number of increasing trucks is also playing its part in this disastrous issue. Dishonesty of traffic police& avoidance of taxes by the general public are also the reasons of this poor system of traffic in Pakistan.

from @samaa.tv

from @samaa.tv

The issue of lack of public transport can be solve by government. Government of Pakistan should take this issue seriously and start projects like orange line train in Lahore in other cities too. Government should also restore goods trains, which will eventually decrease the number of trucks on roads, which are the one major cause of traffic jams. The people who also think that travelling by car can increase their respect in the society, should also change their mentality. Travelling by bicycle is more beneficial for health and for the environment. If you are only travelling for 2–3 km, you don’t need car, you can travel through bicycle or if public transport available in the area.

from @bbc.com

What we can do is that we can spread awareness in people for driving carefully and change the status co mentality, which thinks that respect is only for cars. We can arrange webinars with the help of traffic police and ask the government of Pakistan to make public transport more feasible.
Provide alternative ways, flexible education and training services to develop new and rapidly…
By: Syed Qulzam Abbas
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, 164, Amal Mega Project

Provide alternative ways, flexible education and training services to develop new and rapidly changing skills needed for the 4th Industrial Revolution’s affected jobless employees.

Problem statement

In advancement of technologies, there are a vast amount of employees and worker are being jobless due to implementing the new technologies in industries and organizations. So there is need to find an alternative ways to give jobs to worker in spite to fire them and we should make a proper way to give proper counseling to workers to develop new and rapidly changing skills so they can engage with organizations and industries.

From first industrial revolution to now on 4th industrial revolution, Human force are reducing his potential to work in industries because their jobs is replaced with machines. So we have build a mechanism in which we can fit these fired labors.

There are a lot of examples in which we can see that a lot of workers are fired because their places are taken by machines and technologies. For example in Amazon, while implementing Artificial Intelligence Machines a huge amount of worker are fired but these are not provided with alternative job. A big strike is given by workers but did not given then importance.

If we look at services like uber or careem. However they have lot of benefits for us but on the hand this is also causes a trouble for normal car and riksha driver who are not aware of such technologies. So,there are lot of example in which by coming technology, causing unemployment of workers.

So, We have to figure out proper solution in which we can make a proper alternative for unemployed workers effected by technology and we also figure out how we can make proper guideline for counseling, educating and training services to develop new and rapidly changing skills needed for the 4th Industrial Revolution so they can get job back.

My Amal fellows Problem statements:
Mega Project Problem
By: Shanzay Babar
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Megaprojects

The Coronavirus outbreak is shaking up the global economy on a massive scale and low cost-business ideas are the new talk of the town. The world is scrambling hard to combat the current and upcoming economic consequences of this black swan event, but this could be an exciting opportunity to contemplate a business idea from the home. As this global economic crisis continues, it is expected that businesses will not return to normal for a long time. Due to the situation hesitation among consumers to go out and shop will be visibly seen, impacting the overall seller-buyer conventional journey. With almost every business being transitioned to the online platform, and most professional working directly from home, on-demand home service businesses are seeing a big rise in demand. For the enthusiastic souls, who are willing to be a part of the business world, they can enter through this channel with minimum investments.

The Problem Statement of the idea sponsored is to deliver the hygiene food including cooked and baked items from home safely to the people as they hesitate to shop from out as due to pandemic. I decided to work it out by having fresh products made at home and creating some innovative ideas having customer attraction.

The process of baking and cooking seems to be very easy and full of pleasure but eventually it took much time to proceed with different food items and then providing it with best quality costs somehow much as due to pandemic the product and prices are increasing day-by-day. As sometimes also there is shortage of raw materials being used. So, this seems to be like providing best with much effort. The benefit of having this home service business is that I can be flexible around the hours I have to work. Avoidance of the distractions and noise of the workplace. The major thing is that taking less of a risk with a new business as less start-up money is required.
“Getting closer to your Mega Project”
By: Waleed Ali
Tags: Self-awareness, Self Improvement, Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Megaprojects

The concept of dualism :):

dark-bright, negative-positive

The way we don’t know ourselves completely, we don’t know the strength inside us, and we also don’t know about how many people are connected to us?

So in that regard, I will help others and provide this type of knowledge related to Self-esteem and self reflection.

Asking your self?

For this type of knowledge I talking to people like Intellectual, Open minded & Growth minded according to them, there is no such tradition in this society yet, So first of all we have to get people’s believes right They have to be given the right knowledge They have to be given the right knowledge.
Reflection on Amal Totkay
By: Muhammad Shiraz
Tags: Amal Fellowship

All the Five Tips for the growth mindset are truly important to take a good decision in practical life. These tips are Self Talking, get out of the comfort zone, create new habits/germinate different ideas, concern with other people for help, and Fake it till we make it. All these tips and factors make our life creative and well organized.

In all the Tips, I really like “Self Talking” because we are able to make good decisions through this tip. Self Talking is basically very necessary for the optimistic and growth mindset to achieve the goals of life. Self Talking makes us able to reduce the risk of problems.

All these tips play a vital role to release us from the fixed mindset and make our life very effective with a growth mindset. Mainly, people who believe their talents can be developed (through hard work, good strategies, and input from others) have a growth mindset.

With the Growth Mindset, we are usually able to achieve our goals right away because Growth Mindset provides us different opportunities towards achieving our life goals. Basically, this growth mindset is based on the belief that our basic qualities are things we can cultivate through our good efforts.

People with a growth mindset believe abilities like talent and intelligence can be developed through dedication and hard work. They’re more likely to enjoy learning, seek out situations to experiment, and see failure as an opportunity to grow.
Amal Totkay
By: Sheraz Nadeem
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amalawards, Amal Totkay, Amal Academy, Sheraz

Developing a Growth Mindset

PC:(Google) “Power of Mindsets!”

Mindset is a way of thinking. Mindset is totally showing your ability of how to want, how to work, what you want, Mindset also shows with your actions. Mindset helps you change your life and show your work potential. Mindset shows you that I am a growing or fixed mindset person.

Mindsets are not just learning new skills, they can affect the way that we think about everything.

“The mind is just like a muscle — the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.” Idowu Koyenikan.

You not only thinking we start doing with initial steps……

Mindset Example ”Rabbit and Turtle Story”

Now I tell about 5 totkay of successful and growing your mind and very helpful for Entrepreneur. This totkay is used to achieve your goals and fight with circumstances.

#1 SELF-TALK

“Self-Talk”

Self-talk is the main thing so most people which not focus on self-talk.

Self-talk helps people to throw out negative thinking and negative perception which is traveling all the time in mindset.

Self-talk help to know about emotions & thinking.

#2 Get out of Comfort Zone

“out of comfort zone”

Many people stay in a comfort zone and want to succeed and achieve new things so that they don't want to hard work they only want success but this is wrong thinking waste your hardworking and time.

In your professional and personal life, you will find that the more you get out of your comfort zone, the more opportunities you will find.

#3 Create New Habits

Create new Habits is a very helpful and key factor of any success. Read ourselves and fin out your bad habits and create new habits who develop new things and better things which help for success.

“New habits”

Creating new things on daily basis and change yourself day by day. It's not about a one-day habit. create a new habit on a daily basis which helps you to develop you and your qualities on daily basis.

start with little things and change day by day…….!!!!!

Habits change into character. -Ovid Drop by drop is the water pot filled. -Buddha

#4 Ask People Help

“Ask Help People”

Ask for Help people is normally very uncomfortable and shy for most people. But this is a very great thing to build and helping your entrepreneur Ideas.

Ask for help is very useless for some kind of people because they think this is “swallow their pride”.

“Help”

Ask helping People is a Great opportunity to build a strong relationship with people. Ask help your friend and sibling is too much creative and helpful for closeness.

#5 Fake It Till You Make It

Fake it till you make it simply means that if you know someone deeply but it shows to don't know deeply and don't do this completely. Another meaning if you don't have something but “act like I already have it” it's fine for personal but if you act this in entrepreneur so this could be problematic.

In simple words, you show them fake by outer side if you don't have in reality.

I hope guys you are enjoying it while Reading ..Growing Mindset!!!!
Amal Academy One Step Closer To the Mega Project
By: Nasir Ali
Tags: Amal Fellowship, My Village, Village Life, Amal Academy, Mega Project

Helping children of my Village and enable them to get an education as well as make their families living better (Just taking 1st step from my own Village)

Pakistan has over 80 million children and is suffering to fulfill their needs. Children in Pakistan are vulnerable to several development challenges impacting their safeguarding including quality of education, prevention of sexual exploitation of children, child trafficking, marriage, and labor.

Only 20.88% of children live in urban areas and have access to fundamental needs. Furthermore, 24% of the entire Pakistani population lives below the poverty line, which mainly affects rural areas. In the country, the state of the global markets is exacerbating an already very difficult economic reality. So, the rest of the children who live in rural areas are usually deprived of various resources such as clean water and food, education, and health services.

The hope for betterment

This week Amal Academy assigned us with this project in which we have to come up with the ideas for our mega project, so I thought about different plans but come up with the most familiar problem in our society, i.e the poor child labor and lake of education.

The children already doing labor have no rights. They got no health security , living style and even do not get the food for two times. I taught about taking some steps to enable these children to gain education as well as progress to developed some own business or little way of livelihood where they will not work under any authority. They will be masters of themselves.

‘’you don’t need a lot of capital to start a small business’’
Getting Closer To Your Mega Project Problem
By: Sanwal Akram
Tags: Amal Fellowship, Amal Academy, Megaprojects

Problem Statement

N owadays, everyone is busy in their life and want everything at home in a quick time, in addition, COVID19 plays a vital role in this scenario. There is a prominent gap in different sections but I want to cover Fruit and Vegetable’s sector.

I talked to some men and women about this issue and unfortunately, I was unable to take photos, they were quite concerned about this they said it’ll be feasible for them if they get fresh fruits and vegetables at their doorstep and definitely we’ll charge for our services.

Furthermore, we can expand our circle to hotels, marriage halls, and restaurants. Diet plans are also on the cards alongside fruit baskets for different events.

I’m quite positive about this and looking forward to work on it.