Happy Tuesday ka.
Learn Plern Plern this month is on, 'Happiness' ka. I'd like to share with you what we'll post next week na ka.
Our guest speaker is Tam--Dr. Sutayut Osornprasop, Senior Human Development Specialist at the World Bank ka. I asked him to share his perspective on Happiness working across three world continents ka.
When I asked how he's become a 'true believer' of the World Bank's vision and missions (To create a world free of poverty on a livable planet and its mission is to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity.), he shared these two stories ka.
One was from his very first mission to go help Myanmar during Cyclone Nargis when the country was under dictatorship rule. His direct experience of seeing people's hardship even before and during Nargis hit him hard. He learned how to survive with much lower than standard health and sanitation.
I noticed his much softer voice when talking about it as if the impacts of the situation on him happened not long ago.
The second story was recent when he got food poisoning in Madagascar. Luckily his colleague took him to the hospital in the middle of the night to the emergency department. Even it is the largest public hospital, it was not ready to respond to emergency cases. His friend had to go to a pharmacy nearby for the saline infusion process. The staff there had to use the phone's flashlight and what was more awful was that the person couldn't find the right veins for the IV line after having tried over 10 times (OMG!) It was so painful that he decided to go back to rest at the hotel. Luckily, he became better ka.
The effects from the two learning experiences showed how he has become increasingly committed to the vision and missions of his organization, realizing how he could serve as a bridge to convince global policy makers to take actions to help alleviate poverty and to help those suffering from natural disasters. His happiness sure comes from the impacts he can make ka!
I learned from his sharing how natural disasters could be so destructive and add on to the seriousness of people's poor livelihoods and how other countries and organizations must cooperate to help out. I also empathize with the least developed countries that have been so distant from quality of life ka. We can't take it for granted that being the largest public hospital should be the best place to go as well. Most importantly, direct exposures could strongly strike our hearts and influence our thoughts and actions.
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