The WEF 2010 Countdown: Mousa’s biggest inspiration (10)

Friday, 15 January 2010 | posted by Matt_BC
Global Youth Summit 2009, WEF Davos 2010

I'd like to start by mentioning this is the first ever blog I write, so if there are any guidelines which I broke, let me have it.

When I started my activism I was twelve and I worked on web awareness about Darfur; then, after Obama mentioned it, everyone got on message. So there wasn’t much to make people aware of other than the fact that there was a full-on genocide, yet Mr. Barack Obama was kind enough to clear that one up for us again. From there I found activism to be fun and an overall good thing to be involved in, and I had help, since two members of my family were already activists. I found my greatest inspiration that led me to discover a world full of opportunities, which was of course our local NGO. 

In the NGO we are basically a top floor office in Baghdad on the Tigris (am not just in it for the view... but it helps!). We work mainly with health but that also takes in supplying health manuals and resources for medical schools in Iraq, so we branch out and gravitate around the "spreading love and a helping hand..." (I want to keep this blog energetic, you know?) in our health projects. The first such project was my project ( I OWN!) Later we were boosting on giving nurses' training to widows as a part of the Widows For Peace project. We also supplied medicine resources for many universities throughout Iraq, not only Baghdad.

We also had plenty of work not associated with health: for example the School of Light project (my CAP) was initially supplied with the braile typewriters and the braile paper. That project is still in action as I’m going to visit disability centers around Iraq to see what the national needs are that have to be attended to. We also were asked to run awareness campaigns for elections, teaching students how the elections work and how important the students' votes will be.

The NGO has done different kinds of project and we still are doing so it has been a great honor to be a part of it and it helped me become the activist I am. Iraq Health Aid Organization has been the greatest activism inspiration I have and the overall one of the greatest of my life (after TUPAC SHAKUR -- yes, I did just say that out loud), so when you hear someone yelling "Dude, SOS", You know who to call.

Thanks everyone - I hope my blog ignorance didn’t offend anyone, and good night from Jordan... It's morning here