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Cause beyond causes | Ravi Singh | TEDxChandigarh


in 1999 I was in London we were getting

ready for another another intercede

celebration where thousands of 10th

Street processions and limitless food

abundance of food at the same time in

the wall about 1500 miles away in Europe

and those people from Kosovo believing

as refugees Albania it made me think

that as a humanitarian as a seat as a

person as a human being how can we

accept such suffering only two hours

right away yet we are filling our

bellies and we don’t think of other

people is it because they were different

faith because these people were Muslim

is it because we’ve forgotten which way

we’re going at gurus teachings I’m a

very proud seat I’m very proud when

jumping but I’m even proud of human

being

so I questioned myself what does her

washed-up Allah which in English mean

well we know for me so I said to my

friends let’s do something let’s taste

the food where it’s needed we’re very

proud of the longer concept in psyche

which is the community kitchen for all

but we couldn’t take that concept to

people who needed it I grew up in a

village for 150 kilometres of it and

that village in the 70s and early 80s

was a one unit full of humanities with

full of love when our crops fail we

helped each other where we are

difficulties we help each other I’m very

sad to say it’s another Punjab today I

remember 2530 years ago so as a MSI

materials

I want people like yourselves the

youngsters to take a message back off

the Rockapella don’t judge people by

their religion don’t judge people by

their face when they are suffering don’t

want people don’t go

be unconditional as you can be to help

so in 1999 5000 for first mission to

Kosovo Albanians border in Europe and

I’m so proud to say not a single person

a community said these are movement

refugees normal help them everybody

donated every single person to make a

what you see on photo media the workers

the volunteers reducing delivering aid

how do you deliver aid in such a

dangerous area

what do we go through our struggles who

is an aid worker for me my definition

later workers the very person water i’m

they won’t go where you go one side of

politicians the other side you’ve got

the army generals in the middle you got

the right masters with entities where

they’re struggling in the wall a normal

ordinary family stranded in a refugee

camp some retightening goes along to

help them as an aid worker we go in as

people I grew up in such a rich faith

but I’m so sad to say I’ve been

programmed to follow the Guardians the

custodians of our religious institutions

who cannot think below past filling the

bank accounts we will be happily

awaiting to build a new religious

building which may cost a million or ten

million or twenty million dollars but

will not give anything for Humanity so

I’m challenging our thinking remain

within the four walls of the secret door

of which of the temples we couldn’t get

past to think and let’s take a food the

refugee camp the struggle in doing so

when Carson performed the struggle have

invests personal struggles I think what

you guys see reminiscing in the refugee

camp I think about my family all the

time I think our mother who thinks about

might not come back

I think about the kids think about the

lies every humanitarian every able a God

I respect on the bottom of my heart

I don’t care which organization they

work for they’re doing an amazing job in

very very difficult circumstances around

the world so we choose our struggles we

do sometimes stick in this is only job

where you do the work and use this in

the hotels it’s someone’s story and you

think what am i doing it does somebody

is very awesome does anybody actually

care why I’m here you know what I’m very

proud to say in 1718 years in the last

13 18 years our community has responded

absolutely fantastically to every

disaster as the other six that comes

back to me as a struggle for me is to

get the message across to the public

generally to the Indian public today I’m

in Punjab in Chandigarh

you know we’re you know in a country

that is meant to be the hardest

spiritual for equality love so many

races so many colors so many religions

yes there is so much poverty yet there

is so much suffering because we don’t

want to leave our comforts we forget

we’re a full others come from so the

inspiration behind false I why do we do

what we do is because we have suffered I

am a Sikh final minority we are suffered

genocide

we have suffered stroke we have

struggled we have managed is just parts

of oil other people but we do not been

in haste we don’t live in hate we still

want to multiply the hate with is it

what destroys not just the people of

hurt an individual but the people around

us it affects us at every level so my

biggest challenge is not a steering aid

to refugee camp our biggest challenge is

to get you guys to get the rest of the

world involved to say the people and the

other end who need help who need a and

just like us they may be different in

color it may be different in religion

they may be different in language but

when you have seen these people in

refugee camps you will see there’s no

difference in our families and their

families what they want back is to go

back to their homes have been with

dignity have self-respect and to do that

and he does and it ain’t worthless as a

tea cake worker as a Sikh humanitarian

with identity like they warehousing

people like this family here in

Netherland the one before disease and

these are the city elders with myself in

the near on the VG judgments for me the

first thing they said we never had a

Sikh in this country before this isn’t

ordinary off and I can know but first he

came here 500 years ago who knows daily

and we are now reading these messages

about the power to help your people and

I’m sure your greater ancestor Muslim at

our booth odd and we bring his love we

bring his blessings to help and we don’t

have any conditions we respect you who

you are

we never know I never know who the CDs

were until that day I know these guys

between half years and they become like

family so what does what’s the biggest

inspiration for somebody like me I got a

lot of these questions maybe things

Wi-Fi as you when you walk into a

refugee camp when you deliver that

message that we have to help you and

you’re from a different part of the

world you bring we do something that

really lifts them then lifts the spirit

is called home when you are now oh I can

guarantee you it may help some people

sitting here but I can guarantee you if

the refugee camp in Iraq and Syria were

poor or if the refugee camp a full

people called Singh Sharma little gray

walls come on you will be open up for or

you’ll be open honest you will you’ll be

catching the first I can offer you will

feel the pain because you will

Association as our own why are these no

people are on why we won we left them to

[Applause]

and when you treat these people

differently

that’s where we start separating our

humanity from ourselves in our humanity

we all have we’re all humanitarian I

want people like you to be inspired to

do something it’s become so passionate

applying passion and drive in business

that you won’t get other people to see

what you see and what do I see I don’t

know why religion you are I don’t know

what religion you are I don’t know what

cause you are nor cos you up and I don’t

really care I don’t want to know what I

want to know is what’s inside your heart

why are we struggling to just get past

that simple thing because we cannot

serve humanity until you have a clean

heart to have a clean heart you have to

think as a human being to think of the

human being you’re going to step outside

a little bit of your daily life which is

like a rat race we’re changing well

taking promotions chasing ambitious I’m

not saying that you give up everything

you have no you need to be successful

you need you work hard for what you have

what you do need to do is have little

things what am i doing for the people in

this state in the neighboring villages

where we are today for the refugees or

different to us take care for with you

be human it’s not difficult it breaks my

heart when I go to these cameras some of

you find the daughters are still held as

sex slaves

it breaks my heart that nobody cares in

the world whose easy these are and you

know what what breaks my heart all that

when I raise issues about the genocide

in 94 in Delhi I got called also some

names instead of vomiting you’re right

we have failed the whole generation of

so my body word is it doesn’t matter

what linking you up you’ve got to

respect all religions people will pick

folks and everything do not fall for

fault finding

for football finding you will use

yourself solutions are very easy

solutions are that 100 rupees can change

somebody’s life today you can give up

some food in the village you can test

out the Ruby pen your multiple villages

not through ups you can do it directly

so much can be done just have the

willpower every single one of you is a

regular thing but you don’t realize it

thank you very much [Applause]

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