Wall of Kindness

Wall of Kindness (Persian: دیوار مهربانی‎‎ and Urdu: دیوار مہربانی‎ dīvār-e mehrabānī) is a phenomenal charity work and a kind of welfare, usually done by attaching cloth hangers from outside of houses; those encourage people to donate miscellaneous useful things such as winter clothing. It was introduced by an anonymous Iranian,^[1] and the practice quickly spread throughout the country. The motto of the movement are two sentences which appear on these walls, "leave if you do not need" (نیاز نداری بگذار) and "take [it] if you need" (نیاز داری بردار).^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

The idea spread fast via social media to Pakistan and even China, where general public started creating spaces in public for this cause.

Description

Initially started for the homeless people of the capital of Iran, Tehran, this act serves a purpose to support the people in need. Other cities in the region such as Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi in Pakistan have witnessed similar walls where people are leaving clothes and other essential items for the poor.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]} In response to social media, large numbers of people are taking part as a campaign and it has helped many homeless or otherwise destitute people during the cold winter weather.,.^[15][16]

A similar initiative, but with open fridges, spread from Tehran to other cities.^[2][17] Bookshelves are also being added to the Walls of Kindness in order to donate books specially for poor children^[18]

A Wall of Kindness was seen in Pakistan's Karachi on 15 January 2016^[19] and another one in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on 29 January 2016.^[20][21]

Background

Picture of a public place in Iran

The economy of Iran was largely been hit when sanction was imposed by the western world.Economic condition goes down in uncomfortable level.As the situation become worse with aggregates of unemployed people those couldn't luxury a houseful of cloth.In fact thee inflation made a serious trouble and put a deadweight to these people in need.In the winter of 2015, The noble idea of this work initially brought in by group of Iranian youth in a place; called Sajjad Boulevard in Mashhad.The main theme of the idea was to meet the demand of resources which may come from charity and offering to the affected people.For the first time, a wall symbolizes a unity but not a separation and the community has been asked to donate voluntarily.As soon as the attempt came under light of various social and mass media, it was supported and praised by citizens as well as netizens.

The young community of Iran took this chance to make the brethren stronger in society and to provide a way of solution. The witnesses of these event shows that the campaign was going smoothly although there was a risk of misuse and lose of resources.People were responsive and well aware of the fact that, most vulnerable should get priority.

Cold winter season in Iran, 2015

Winter clothing disbursed among mass number of people as a welfare was seen before,^[22] but this idea was a innovative work and showed much intelligence also.

Impacts

The sharing works of charity had a great impacts of religious point of view regarding Islamic prefecture like Iran. Like any other religion this charitable works considered virtue in Islam and this has driven people to do more for humanity.

See also

References

External links

• "Iranians set up ‘wall of kindness’ to help homeless in winter", in Daily Times