Imtiaz Sooliman – In Depth Interview of The Gift of the Givers
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The speaker discusses the benefits of working in a medical office, including saving lives and reducing costs. They also mention the importance of transparency and being watched in the office. The speaker emphasizes the need for people to follow the process and not give anyone too much information.
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Why would a doctor leave a successful career behind and go
into humanitarian work?
My father asked me the same question. He said, Are you sure
you're doing the right thing? Why did you study for seven years? You
know what's wrong with you? And then several years later, he said,
you know, what, if only I had half the faith that you had. You know
what? I felt much better that time. But I truly endorse totally
what you've done. It wasn't my decision. It was a spiritual
instruction from a spiritual, spiritual master in Istanbul, and
my heart said yes. It was something on the spur of the
moment. You know? It was just my heart said yes, and we have a
teaching. Listen to your heart. The heart says, Yes, you follow
it. And I have no regrets, because I've seen in medicine, I can see
maybe 3040, patients a day. And then, then to you can't be
properly so many patients in a day. And in this we can virtually
benefit, without exaggeration, millions of people at any one time
in different parts of the world, because the way we set up our
offices all over the world, amount of people we reach. So we actually
can serve 1000s of people in one day, which is far more beneficial
than seeing 40 patients in research. Follow me, these are
different warehouses. On the on the top is our offices. It's the
second office. The head office still is in town, but everything
runs from here. The whole all the staff have been moved here. Only a
small contingent is left at the head office building. Our system
is changing as all our offices now have warehouses, because that's
the best way to function. We go now to the first big warehouse,
where we call this warehouse is where we organize all the stuff,
where all the packing is done for the food parcels, the hygiene
packs, everything that comes is sorted out in this office in this
warehouse, and then taken to where it needs to be organized and sent
out. I'll just give you a brief look at the inside area of the
first warehouse. Our job is not to outdo government. We are not there
to make government look bad. Our job, from a spiritual point of
view, is to save people all religion tells you that that he
who saves one man, one person, saved all of mankind. And by God's
own definition, you saved mankind 1000s of times over, because, by
His grace, He has permitted us to serve his own people.
You
so this is food items and rice, other containers left few days
ago. Already, six containers have been sent last year for Yemen and
Somalia. We sent out 101 containers of food aid. In fact.
Now to save cost, all the rice is bought in India. Instead of
bringing it back to South Africa and bang it and take it back out
to Somalia and to Yemen, we just buy the rice in India, and from
India, it's dispatched directly to Yemen and to Somalia. It's a major
cost saving, and that money can then be used to benefit more
people. When my team's got I must give compliments to my staff and
my teams and my project managers and research industry teams and
the medical teams and everybody work with us. When did I the last
few missions? I stopped coming. I normally did the teams. I've
stopped doing that because I'm not going to live forever. It's time
you people start learning to carry on the process. And when they go
across, they ask me, What must we do? I tell them one line, what
will you do if your wife and child are in trouble? What will you do
if you know what to do, then you know what to do now. And I leave
that to them, and they work with absolute position, and they love
to save people's lives, and they do everything necessary to look
after what I said in the beginning that the dignity of people and to
serve them with love, kindness, compassion and mercy, and that's
what I need to
do here.
These items are leaving for India soon, these oxygen concentrators,
as you know, India's biggest problem is two. One is they don't
have oxygen and two, they don't have oxygen delivery machines. You
often say, we do things straight. What does that mean?
Everything has to be transparent. That's why, you know there's no
la, there's no and in India to say, latas, there's no latas job.
Everything is done properly, because you're not dealing with
some inanimate object. You're dealing with human life, human
suffering, human dignity and human emotions. They can't be expired
medicines. They can't be blown up tenfold, things that the teachings
tell you, what you yourself will not use. You can't give to
somebody else. You can't give torn clothes. You can't give slapdash
treatment. You can't throw things at people like they don't care,
they don't matter, like they have no feeling. So when we do things,
we do it properly. Everything. When we cook for water, we make
sure the hydrologists are there, the lab tests are done. What is
drinkable? We drink that water first before we give it to
everybody. And that's why the media traveled us. Where will we
go? We want the world to see that we are being watched, that in
everything that we do, we are being watched. And you can see
what we're doing so you can see it's transparent. There's no
second and job here. There's no.