Unforgettable Visit

One day when I was in high school my teacher arranged a trip for our class to the retirement house in Alriyadh city in Saudi Arabia. Each student been asked to do a task including having lunch with the residences. The task was to find out the reason why the person is here, how do he feel, and an advice that will help me in my future. I was introduced to uncle Nasser Hassan he was 85 years old, he was a taxi driver. Uncle Nasser has three sons and two daughters, they send him to the retirement house after the death of his wife, because they think it's better for him. At the retirement house they will take care of him all the time, and he will find people like him self, so he can spend his time with them and never feel lonely. I asked uncle Nasser " how do you find it here uncle?", he said " it is nice, the nursing team they take care of me 24/7, and i have many friends here i set with and talk to them", I said "what do you talk about?", uncle Nasser said " different kind of things specially the old days stories". I said "what kind of stories?", uncle Nasser said "about our bast some funny stories, some sad stories, and so on". I asked him "can you tell me a story", "of course", uncle Nasser said.

Once upon a time, there was two brothers the older one called Hadi and the younger one called Mahdi, they lived in a small village called "Thahban" in the south of Saudi Arabia. Hadi and Mahdi they were farmers like there father was, they lived the simple life of the villagers. Their father teach them how take care of the farm and the crops, to help them to provide there needs of food. Hadi and Mahdi grow up working on there father's methods, until one day there father past a way leaving his sons behind. Hadi decided to sell his own share in the farm to travel Saudi Arabia, and Mahdi decided to keep his own share and continue his life as it is. In ten years of time Hadi return back to his village and start looking for his own brother that he missed so much. Finally Hadi met his younger brother Mahdi who still living the same life for ten years, they start exchanging stories about there lives in the past ten years. Mahdi asked his brother what did he accomplished in the ten years of traveling, "he said" in the west region he learned how to dig bigger well, in the east region he learned how to build better water channels, and in the north he learned how raise camels and sheep. The two brothers worked together they used Hadi's knowledge and Mahdi's land to improve their farm, their lives, and their children lives too.

At the end I asked uncle Nasser for an advice that will help me in the future. He said:

" don't forget who you are and where you came from, because that is your identity"

" to win something you have to sacrifice something else"

" if want to change something in the world start with your self"

" it is never to late to learn something"

and the last one was

"to be happy don't do whatever you like, like whatever you do".

That was my unforgettable visit to the retirement house.

More Than 2,500 Children are Dying each Day.

More than 2,500 children are dying every day in Africa, around one billion people in Africa they don't have enough clean water to provide their basic human needs. They are willing to take risk diseases by using water that may not be clean and healthy when they are desperately thirsty. This untrusted water sources can cause fatal diseases such as malaria, trypanosomiasis, intestinal worm infections, dengue and many different kinds of bacterias that cause deaths. This shortage of water also caused other serious cases one of it is starvation in different regions in Africa such as Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan also. We can feel sorry for them and stand here watch them suffering, but I don't think that will help. We still can help them, if every one of us donate at least $5 monthly, that is the right way if want to help them.