Imtiaz Sooliman – Best among people are those who benefit mankind

Imtiaz Sooliman
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The speaker discusses their experience as a gift-giving professional, including their experience working for a humanitarian organization focused on helping people with disabilities. They emphasize the importance of serving all cultures and industries, rather than just one area or group. The speaker also talks about their diverse projects and their success in helping people with disabilities achieve their goals.
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Dr India Suleiman, chairman and founder gift of the givers. I was

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a medical doctor. I practiced for eight and a half years. I met a

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spiritual teacher Istanbul in August 1992

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and it's there that I've got instruction to form gift of the

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givers. You said, My son, I'm not asking you, I'm instructing you to

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form an organization. You will serve all people of all races, of

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all religions. Serve people with love, kindness, compassion and

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mercy, but you will serve them unconditionally, you will not

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expect anything in return, not even a thank you. So I'm involved

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in this industry, 26 years with gift for the givers, or 28 years

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overall.

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Gift for the givers is a disaster relief agency. That's our

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specialty, a humanitarian organization. We get involved in

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all kind of crisis, be it earthquakes, hurricanes, floods,

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fires, war, anything to do with disaster. But over that period of

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time, we found that there are periods where there is no

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disaster, and we have all the infrastructure. We have the staff.

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So we have 21 different categories of projects.

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Anything that fits underwater. Best among people are those who

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benefit mankind, I should say mankind and creation. Because we

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have the animals, we have the bees, we have the birds, we have

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every type of creation on Earth.

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So the projects are very, very diverse. And of course, Manila Day

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is a big project for us. Last year, in three days, we did 12

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million Rand worth of projects in three days for Manila day, we get

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involved in those kind of things in the country, in the continent

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and throughout the world.

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Now, rather promise a little less and give more than what you

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promise, then promise too much and don't deliver. And whatever you do

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is done through you and not by you. If you understand there is no

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ego, there is no personal gain, and that's what drives me my work

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for the last 26 years, and what that people see, and that's what

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makes it so successful.

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You.

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