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A YOUNG, PASSIONATE RESEARCHER : DUHA SHELLAH
What is your Standing Committee responsible for?
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What are the main goals SCORP plans to achieve this term?
What are the biggest projects you completed/plan to complete this term?
I’ll stray away from the casual, usual, yet so corporate definition of our responsibilities and instead try to talk about us through the words of a SCORPion. SCORP is where we stand side by side with the weak to empower them, the injured to nurse them, the unconfident to motivate them, the voiceless to be their voice. Most importantly, those in the darkness; to be their light. Since the inception of SCORP; we’ve worked endlessly, tirelessly and relentlessly to provide a platform for everyone to channel the humanitarian inside of them. We provide all sorts of human rights-related activities on a local, national, regional, international and all scales imaginable. From empowering debates that discuss all sorts of human rights and worldwide issues to empathizing campaigns that help those in need from all spectrums, ages and generations. Furthermore, we are also known for our unique human rights, disaster medicine and medical practitioners’ trainings, workshops and mass/worldwide- events that host such trainings/workshops, as well as a full-fledged human rights-oriented exchange program endorsed by NMOs worldwide!
Generally speaking, I’d like to emphasize on the points I mentioned in the beginning; by planning to be the light in the darkness and the collective voice of the voiceless who are in need. But since SCORP is a Standing Committee that hosts the most relentless and passionate members in the NMO, if not the entire organization; I’d say our goal is to stand out as the brightest Standing Committee, carry on with the legacy of our ancestors, add the taste of a new era, and raise the flag of the Green Kingdom high for everyone to see!
We've recently completed the Winter Campaigns project. I’m looking forward to completing the Children Health Awareness Campaigns, in addition to many more upcoming projects/activities this term, so stay tuned!
In your opinion, why should students be educated on human rights’ issues?
Finally, what are the biggest lessons you learned from your experience with SCORP from being a volunteer to a National Officer on Human Rights and Peace?
Rhetorically speaking, you can’t be a doctor if you’re not a human. By that, I mean that medicine is the only field where the sense of humanity comes before knowledge. Many doctors out there are known for their extensive knowledge. Not all of them can be called “humane doctors”, though. From a medical perspective, we believe that learning about human rights’ issues will not only awaken the humanitarian sense in all future medical practitioners, but will also give them a good view of the proper care of human beings in need, worldwide, that medicine could provide. We all know that a lot of countries worldwide are suffering financially, especially with the current pandemic, for example. Such struggles come with the dire need of their population for medical attention, proper equipment, performing procedures, and even vaccines. If students are taught and educated well about human rights, if a few of them gather and come up with great applicable ideas to satisfy said needs, and if global organizations collaborate with them; then we are guaranteed a much better world than the one we’re currently living in... That’s what SCORP is all about!
Man... I’ll say this and I’m being the most sincere I’ve ever been. SCORP has saved my life, made me the man that I am, and has turned me into a better person.
Plain and simple.
I can’t begin to describe the lessons I’ve learned with SCORP, but this place really changed me to the better. If there’s one lesson though... I’d say that... Everybody has a good side inside of them. No matter how evil they may seem, there’s always a good ray of light in them. It just needs to be switched on. SCORP, not only did it turn the switch on for me, but it taught me to go out there and turn it on for everyone around me in every activity I participated in... I just can’t be more thankful for being a proud citizen of the Green Kingdom!
