Social Awareness Project
Over the last few weeks i was involoved in doing a project for an NGO. The objective was to prepare a profile of truckers residing and working in the area where the NGO operates. An interesting project which taught me the following things:
1) Sex is an elementary need of life.
Whether one is betraying his/her spouse depends on many factors. A trucker uses the service of a sex worker not because he wants to betray his wife but because the distances makes it impossible for him to survive with using such a service. I also wonder how the poor wife must be surviving.
2) Selling is a very difficult job.
Try selling an interview survey to poor and low educated truckers you will understand how difficult it is to win the trust of someone who has never met u before in his/her life. Now think about the more educated people. They are more critical, more suspicious, to sell them will be more difficult.
3) Better not be a trucker.
All in all a very good experience. Its amazing to know that there are many problems in this life which you have never faced and were unable to imagine unless you have met a person facing those problems. Liked the work and would try to continue helping in someway or the other.
1) Sex is an elementary need of life.
Whether one is betraying his/her spouse depends on many factors. A trucker uses the service of a sex worker not because he wants to betray his wife but because the distances makes it impossible for him to survive with using such a service. I also wonder how the poor wife must be surviving.
2) Selling is a very difficult job.
Try selling an interview survey to poor and low educated truckers you will understand how difficult it is to win the trust of someone who has never met u before in his/her life. Now think about the more educated people. They are more critical, more suspicious, to sell them will be more difficult.
3) Better not be a trucker.
All in all a very good experience. Its amazing to know that there are many problems in this life which you have never faced and were unable to imagine unless you have met a person facing those problems. Liked the work and would try to continue helping in someway or the other.
posted by journeyman at 2:38 PM
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