My Amal Journey

Fatima Batool
3 min readOct 17, 2020

A beautiful journey of Amal fellowship is going to end. It all started from a rapid fire conversation, I remember I was so nervous that how am I going to turn on the video, OMG my laptop’s camera is so bad, how am I going to talk to the unknown people, all these thoughts were in my mind and now when I am thinking about that time I am feeling like a Dumbo, now its not a big deal to turn on my camera and those people to whom I was feeling nervous to talk are now like a family, A family I can share anything with.

Zoom Online Sessions

Whenever, I’ll look at the video option on Zoom, it’ll remind me of AMAL sessions. Still looking at this picture makes me feel like I am in a session. 😂

In the start, everything was like a burden, doing Project Works, attending sessions, everything was like some impossible thing, I still remember that in 1st PW when I had to make a MVTP video, I cried whole night, I felt like its impossible, I cant do it, people will judge me, how am I going to post. But I did post by putting a stone on my heart and my video won the video award.

Respond with urgency

After winning this award I felt so happy and I got shocked, when sir Hamza announced my name, first I didn’t really believe but then when he sent this picture, I got really emotional.

After winning this award I felt really motivated, I was thinking that I can’t continue this fellowship, but this award was like an extra push that made me continue this fellowship.

I still remember the First week, when I was a leader of a learning group and I knew nothing about leader’s duties, I got panic that how I’ll handle this all but I think that leadership for 2 weeks played a big role in continuing and finishing this fellowship, after being assigned as a leader, I felt a sense of responsibility, I read whole PW doc twice then I explained that to my group members, completed my projects and learnt how to deal with different people.

Before joining AMAL, I never thought of taking leadership and risks but Amal made me feel like an important and talented person, if I will say that joining AMAL was one of the best decision I’ve ever made then it won’t be wrong.

Through AMAL I found myself, my likes, my dislikes, my interests.

I whole heartedly thank my best Friend “Noor ul Huda” for introducing this fellowship to me and making me join this fellowship.

After that, A big reminder will be my elder sister because every Sunday whenever she used to come, I was busy in sessions so she was always like, “tum to Amal ki hi ho k reh gai ho”, I am sure she is going to remind me of Amal, at least for a month on every Sunday. 😂

It was a great and a beautiful journey with Amal, full of learning and fun with great beautiful people, we all became a family, I will never forget my Amal Family.

Thank You Amal! for introducing such great folks to me and for adding beautiful people and making these 3 months of my life, beautiful and unforgettable.💜

visualizing my Amal experience

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