The rubric of active youth is the space in which we present the most valuable scholarship holders of our Foundation every month. Those are the ones who, day after day, strive to invest their time and energy in higher goals and thus improve themselves and their society. RAM (working memory) is a part of the computer without which its operation cannot be imagined. In the same way are our scholarship holders who in addition to volunteer activism within the Foundation, work extremely diligently in their local communities, a part without which our work would certainly not be the same. RAM is a column dedicated to those who actively work every day to improve their society and improve themselves, therefore it is our pleasure to talk about one of them every month, and this time that honor went to Izudin Beganović.
Izudin Beganović is a student of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sarajevo and is currently attending the latter, i.e. sixth year of study. He has been a scholarship holder of the Hastor Foundation for one year and has been a member of the administrative team of the Hastor Foundation since this academic year.
Volunteering at the Hastor Foundation is not Izudin’s first experience in volunteering. During his high school education, he was a member of the Izvor nade Foundation, where he gained his first volunteer experiences both with the younger population and in the local community. Izudin reluctantly admits that after entering the Faculty of Medicine, he had to devote his time to his academic career as much as possible and was forced to reduce the scope of his volunteer activities. Now, in the final years of his studies, when his duties at the university are less, he has an ideal opportunity to revive his previous experience and love for volunteering through activities at the Hastor Foundation.
Although I moved very quickly to the administrative team, I had wonderful experiences volunteering in the field with the students. I always tried to convey to them at least a part of my love for volunteering and I always reminded them of the most important thing: one good turn deserves another. This year I want to have a new experience, to meet new people and I hope that with my work I will help both mentors and all students who need it.
Lately, as he points out, Izudin tries to focus his work on volunteering and deepening his practical knowledge. The latest activity of this kind is volunteering in the Emergency Department. In this way, he tries to contribute to our community in his free time, and at the same time to upgrade and improve his knowledge, which many students, unfortunately, were deprived of during the period of the COVID 19 virus pandemic.
He believes that young people are the foundation of every society and that their activities directly influence what kind of future awaits us. Sometimes all it takes is one little nudge or one idea to encourage young people to do better for themselves and for their society.
Being a scholarship holder of the Hastor Foundation is a great honor and pleasure for me. Financial support is only one segment of many things that it has made possible for me. The most important thing that the Hastor Foundation has done for me is that it has opened new perspectives on how much an individual can contribute to society. The experience of bringing together people from different fields and sciences, while everyone has only one goal – the selfless sharing of experience and knowledge so that everyone can progress together and improve our community – can only be experienced within the framework of the Hastor Foundation.
Izudin states that in addition to all of the above mentioned, the Hastor Foundation also enabled him to perfect certain skills that he would have been able to perfect without its support. Thanks to the scholarship, he was able to pass several levels of the German language, attend various seminars and congresses in the field of medicine, and participate in various courses that improved his practical skills in the field of medicine, all with the goal that, when he becomes a doctor, he will continue selflessly and as successfully as possible to help people .
He believes that the time organization is the basis of life success. With good organization, it is possible to find time for additional activities and hobbies without harming academic success.
My message to scholarship holders is to always look to use their time for good purposes. We can buy everything in the world except the time spent, it has no price and can never be returned. That’s why it’s necessary to create memories and experiences because that will be our only reminder that we didn’t spend the years in vain.
Writing and reading the inspiring stories of our scholarship holders that teach us how to help and the great importance of daily work on ourselves are our step towards our planned goals. It is a true wealth to have countless such stories under the cover of just one community – our Hastor Foundation.
Prepared by: Nedžma Latić
Translated by: Semra Islamović
