Tamachi: a cobbler at Arts Faulty By: Sindhu Mallah

Edited by Ayaz Ahmed Laghari

 Javed Tamachi: a cobbler at Arts Faulty

A common but uncommon 

By: Sindhu  Mallah

There are many humble and useful jobs that people have to do for their livelihood, despite liked by them or not. All of them play an important role in society with their efforts. For instance a street sweeper's work is very humble, yet the city would be a dirty place if the sweepers were not there.  So we should not despise him on account of his job but at least do not show a hatred behaviour to them. A cobbler also does a humble job. He makes an honest living by mending shoes. In the course of his work, his hands become dirty and black due to shoe polish, so we should not ignore them as unimportant persons of the society but take appreciate their hard work that they do for earnings.

Here I am writing something about Javed  Tamachi a cobbler at Arts Faulty, University of Sindh. He is 23 years old and lives at Shora Village, Jamshoro. Javed usually earns rupees 200 a day. He comes at 7:30am daily and starts his work on roof with some useful tools and a woody box.   He closes his shoes mending stall at 2: pm. Many students also give him some extra money, for his hard work.

He further told that their family migrated from Bahawalpur to Sindh for the sake of money. Though the income is less but his family is happy with this amount. Javed told that they do not depend on others, they are ten family members and it is really difficult to survive and its share of 200 rupees is fewer shares for supporting the family but still his mother is happy with him with thanking god for monetary he earns and others earn.

Javed further mentioned that one of his elder brothers and father are also cobblers and this is his family profession. Even Sunday is not holiday for him and if University is off he goes to other places and start cobbler's work there because if he earns daily his family lives happily.

 Javed said a certain dignity can be found in all kinds of honest labour with hard work. We would not look down upon anyone because someone does a humble job. Each labour has his own dignity and we should respect the dignity of each human being. No man loses his dignity because he happens to do a poorly paid job.

Javed gives his message that all of us must learn to respect the dignity of labour. We should not be ashamed to do any kind of job even the job that let sit you down on the roof but it should be done with honesty. Children must learn to respect every labour. Our country will be prosperous only when we have a right sense of values and no false pride. 

 October 4, 2012 

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