Hello Hive.
With a heart filled with joy, I feel honored and privileged to be trusted with the obligation of putting smiles on the faces of this kids in my neighborhood.
Its Christmas season and these presents came through right to them right from a benevolent heart via an airdrop from their discord link
Am not surprised if this responsibility fell in my hands, I have been longing to serve others and reach out to people in need and even though the resources been given out today is not coming from me directly I feel a sense of fulfilling purpose and this can also determine how well I will perform when I finally launch to give back to my society the abundance I have received
In every little way I have helped people in need and judging from some positive feedback in my weekend engagement post here I am glad that my dreams of living to help, serve and impact lives is yielding a positive result.
This journey began about 11 days ago when @blezyn came across this contest and tagged me to come check out what is going on in the discord account of this post link to the post as written by @psyberx herein, I accepted the invite and tag 4 other hivers inclusive of @adeife2.
Adeife logged into their discord and stayed connected even before myself and about 8days into the contest she got like 7hive in her airdrop wallet balance and at that time I went visiting in her house where she asked about my progress on the discord and airdrop as well
She was excited personally been new on the Blockchain (barely a month) and her post haven't gotten the desired attention yet 7 hive was a huge one and her first income on the Blockchain, this amounts to over 7k depending on the price of hive at that moment converting this to our local currency, this is good enough to buy something tangible.
Deciding to also participate and see how far I can go, she gave me the guidelines and just then I had some challenges, I wasn't able to enter any of the airdrop before but i was advised to update my discord app(am so bad at updating apps,rarely do so unless an app starts malfunctioning).
This was fixed and am good to go.
In the Early hours of yesterday about 4am been awake I checked in the discord to claim some airdrop and while a conversation was going on, @psyberx wanted to know if this airdrop made any impact at all? And in his words this question was put across
"I want to be clear. If these airdrops are putting food on your table. I will triple the amount we drop"
To be honest, with the current price of hive just 2hive was enough to put a meal on my table, 2hive was about 2000 naira at the time and with this I can buy a plate of rice and chicken with soft drinks to go with it. 😊😊
Without hesitation he paid for my breakfast that morning 29th Nov with 2hive straight to my wallet. Am thankful for that 🙏
To take this further he decided to help my communities by sending some giveaway hive that i could use to buy things for people in my community. This would be Christmas gift for my neighborhood as 25hive can go along way to touch lives here.
Receiving some 25hive personally along side @p.mgbaji on discord we ventured individually into this common task at our different location to help people in our neighborhood.
After giving this a good thought, I went for the children, these very ones who have no shoes and barely a change of cloth, they are truly in need.
Some go to the local community schools here barefooted.
This gesture was carried out just this afternoon and since the children are in school I came all the to meet them in their location.
Deciding not to buy consumables that they will eat and forget soon enough these shoes will last in the sole of their feet and protect their legs for a long time.
After trading the 25hive on a exchange it was converted to our local currency and received through P2P about 30,000 naira, that was huge enough to go a long way. Needing extra hands, I invited @jearyjoe a fellow hiver and we went shopping for this gift items, listing out our budget and the number of children this can cover.
We also bought some refreshments some drinks and snacks to please them, they are happy to receive new shoes for free.
Point of purchase
Boarding a tricycle to the school with the gift items, I had to stop by my place and make a change of clothes as I passed the night in a hospital and went shopping straight hence.
The selection process
The selection process wasn't based on merit or the most brilliant student or pupils but based on need.
I had them all assembled and made a list of the bare footed ones among them.
Judging from the environment of the school, this is a remote village school and the classrooms uncompleted bbuilding carrying about 50 and above students.
Children from my neighborhood attend this school, some without uniforms, sandals or writing materials, this is how they struggle through school and just like them I studied in this environment.
The selection process was over and each pupils and students received their gifts.
We bought shoes and sandals according to need and these wears can be worn either to school or as Christmas shoes for fashion.
Some pairs of the footwear's didn't fit into the size of the categories of children in need, I placed a call across to the seller who has promised to swap these ones to the size needed by the children.
This other child caught my attention, he has no school uniform nor sandal, he couldn't afford the schools fee or other materials.
And was left roaming about the compound, his father is the chairman of the school and yet they could not afford these thing, this was touching.
I took a budget of his needs and I wouldn't be needing more than 8hive to meet this purpose, offering to help, we scheduled a date for me to stop by again to clear his bills as 8hive wouldn't be over bearing.
Refreshments was served in the midst of the term examination and these snacks and drinks will be distributed to the other students who couldn't get a thing from us today. We didn't come with enough to go round.
These lessons i have learnt from today's event.
- You don't need much to be a giver.
Am willing to continue with this, bearing in mind that if I can keep a budget of jus 1hive weekly and if I get to sell this a reasonable rate I could reach out to the needy in my community and this wouldn't end here. There has to be a continuity and will be my responsibility hence unless I have willing partners.
The principal gave a vote of thanks and I was quite shy when the pupils went on their needs in thanksgiving.
This isn't a punishment and they need not do that, but it was just how grateful they were.
The pupils were having exams and we took pictures while others ran along to catch up with their papers in various classes.
- The joy of a giver can never be quantified.
I felt this joy maybe partial because the resources weren't coming directly from me but trust me, I was melted with genuine happiness and contentment to be in a position to impact life.
This gesture can never be forgotten in a hurry and as little as 1hive that was given at that airdrop can go along way to feed one hungry mouth around here.
This is in Ilorin area, kwara state Nigeria and the name of the School is called Tepatan.
Here is right in front of the principal office and a notice of covid-19 warning.
Who could have thought that I will be awake at that time of the night to visit a discord link with an airdrop going on, the truth is that I was awake all night as my sister was meet with the pangs of childbirth, we went to the hospital at midnight and I was sitting right beside her in the labor ward, the only way I could ease the tension we were both feeling was to check out my hive blog or a discord for some distracting comfort.
Right there and then the opportunity came up and not minding the current situation I was in I took up the challenge
Been unable to visit the shopping place yesterday I had it shifted till today and now the good deed has been done.
Whatever you give out of a pure heart can never be too small
On behalf of my self and my community and all of this children we send our warmest thanksgiving to @psyberx for trusting me with this task and putting smile in the faces of these young ones.
Thanks you for coming around taking your time and patience to read this lengthy post, you can invite other friends you feel might benefit from this airdrop to join this discord link about, get connected and make more friend.
Wow, @monica-ene😍
This is beautiful. I am so glad you fulfilled your promise and lived up to expectations. I commend your kind heart.
Kudos to @psyberx for showing love and his act of kindness. You are blessing to humanity
Much love😍
Thanks friend ❤
It is a pleasure to see Hive having such a positive impact in the lives of people all around the world.
Merry Christmas to all of you!
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Thanks alot. I love it.
@monica you have done a great job on this your story. Keep it up . You are blessed
Thanks, its a privileged to serve
Wow! Babygirl you did great. You can't possibly tell how much this means to those kids.
Thanks to JBOSS for helping to make this possible!
Thanks sis. ❤💖❤
Nice putting smiles of this kids faces. Great act from you and jboss @psyberx for making this possible
Thanks alot, much appreciated.
This is so heart warming!!
Generosity is not just about giving out of the abundance of your riches, but it is much more when one who has little give abundantly out of the little he or she has.
Indeed, only those who have good hearts can truly be generous!
Having a human heart is indeed unique and rare in this present world.
Thumbs up @monica-ene and special thanks to @psyberx and the Psyberx team.
Thanks dear, am glad you get the idea surrounding giving.
We need more people to come to this light and help others in desperate need.
True true
You are amazing
Well done @monica-ene, this is great and thanks to @psyberx he's such a generous fellow
😂😂😂
Thanks sis
Thanks for sharing your story Monica-ene about how the Hive community helped you, and how you are using what you learn here to help others!
Thanks alot for the kind words.
This is really amazing for real. Christmas is all about giving and helping others. It's not even christmas yet but gifts came in already for them. I can just imagine how happy they all would feel.
I'm glad you were among the lucky ones Selected to bless these children. You'll have your hardwork pay..amen..
Thanks a great much @psyberx for extending an helping hand
Thanks for the kind words dear
You're welcome dear
Thank you so much for what you did. This means a lot to them and am glad they were happy. God will bless you for your selfless service
Its a Privileged to serve, thank you
This is awesome!!! I love that you did this. Maybe the funds came from the airdrop but the idea and time and energy to help came from you! <3
I love the money going directly to you to help your community because then you know how best to spend it and how much things cost (and give income to the shoe seller, as well). Years ago I gave to a group that was trying to buy shoes for kids in schools who didn't have any ...I don't remember exactly where, Uganda maybe? Anyway, they asked for $15-20 US for each pair of shoes, which is what a pair of inexpensive shoes will cost you in the US so I didn't think about it much, but now I see that you can buy SEVERAL shoes with that and are helping more people. Mutual aid FTW (for the win)!
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Wow, am glad that you appreciate my effort. Thank you your large heart and for giving to those in need. Well as little as $10 can buy some quality inexpensive shoes for people around here.. I guess cost of living differs and a little USD can mean alot of our currency here.
Thanks alot for the tip.
Am so sorry for late reply.
Am involved in alot here and sincerely wish to reply in time.
You're welcome and no worries! We reply when we get to it, we're all busy and in different time zones anyway. :)
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