Episode Transcript
Hello, my name is Aziz, and I'm the son of a divorced mother.
She is really my superhero.
That's why it's important for me to support women to share their uniqueness, their personalities,
perspectives, and emotions about this world.
In these difficult times in human history, we need to bring the people of the world together.
And when we listen to the voices of women, when we hear real lives of women from other
countries, we connect our cultures without differences or stereotypes, and we get inspired
by their stories to live a better life.
That's what this podcast is all about.
My guest today is Malohat Rahimshoevna.
Malohat is from Khorog, Tajikistan, currently studying to be a doctor, faculty of general
medicine at ATSMU.
Malohat is a state volunteer currently working in private and public clinics with the Goa
School of Delving Deeper into the World of Medicine.
For one and a half years, she served as a leader of volunteers in Nora, Tajikistan,
and in 2022 became a certified leader by IFMSA, the International Federation of Medical Students
Association in India.
She considers her family, her education, and, of course, volunteering to be the main components
of her life.
Her favorite creation of nature is people, and she is affected by the problems of low
income people.
The results obtained and the work done in the field of volunteering and medicine encourage
her to continue to be who she is now.
Her recent conclusion is, if there is no strength left, you can just take a break and stay in
place for a while, but you can't go back and give up.
Malohat, how are you today?
Hello, and thank you again for such amazing opportunity, and I'm good now.
Thank you very much, and I hope you are doing well too.
I'm feeling lucky, honored, and privileged to have you here.
We will explore volunteering, who you are, everything that is important to you, and I'll
begin with this nice first question.
If your friends, the people who know you best, could describe your personality, what would
they say about you?
Okay, thank you for this question, and I don't know, but I guess that the first thing that
they will say about me, it will be about multifunctional, multifunctional, and I think that I'm really
responsible.
Oh my God, and I have a sense of humor.
I think that's enough.
That's really, really cool and interesting, and I'm curious about the importance of volunteering
in your life.
What was the story or the moment that you discovered volunteering, that you fell in
love with it?
Tell me how that happened.
So I think that volunteering is going to be the most important part of my life forever,
and there's very big importance of volunteering in my life.
It's just because my first reason is that because I love people very much, and I can
say that I love people or rather I began to love them when I began to understand them
and learn to put myself in their place, at least for a moment.
Then I realized that, hey, there are others besides me for whom I should try, and fortunately
my profession is in power to help me get them out of health-related problems.
I mean, and being a medical student, I always think that everything is not enough for me
because day after day, I feel even more responsibility, and I think that even when you do a little
something that is very little, I mean very tiny for someone, it can be a whole world.
It can, and because of this tiny thing, someone can survive, and there were many moments and
there were a lot of, I got a lot of results, which are because of which I just, I'm just
continuing to stay a volunteer, and if, for example, someone asked me about volunteering,
I'm so, it so motivates me, and I'm so emotional that I can't just explain everything that
I feel, and it's, and right now it's so difficult for me to describe everything and to explain
everything that I feel, and I think about volunteering, and be true, be honest right
now, I'm so worried, and I'm so emotional, but I hope that after a minute or five, it'll
be better to say, tell you my thoughts, and so thank you very much for understanding,
and thank you very much for others, if someone will listen to me, I'm so emotional, thank
you.
You are welcome, I'm proud of you, and I really value the importance you have for helping
people.
Yes, you as a medical student and a medical professional can truly save lives.
At the same time, you mentioned in your introduction that the pain and the struggle of low-income
people is very important for you.
Can you tell me a bit more about that, why is it important, what do you see is a big
problem, and how can people help?
So that's a very good question, and my profession is very closed to people, and our work and
our profession is all about people, and I just can bring here one example from my experience.
For example, in our association, I have mentioned in my biography, I mean, there was Tajik Medical
Association students, so this association for some years, it served for people, and
we were as a group of volunteers, and we helped people, poor people, people with disadvantages,
and so on.
So when our association was closed, people whom we helped before, when they asked us,
for example, for help, and they know that we will help them, but when we weren't able
to help them, it affected me so much, because, for example, there was one boy who was four-aged,
who was four-aged, and he had a heart operation, and our association had to give to his family
some money, but because of lack of support from our university, our association was closed
and we couldn't help them, and that was trouble, and unfortunately, this child couldn't survive.
Maybe it's not the reason we're not we, but just I think that every time I blame myself
and I blame my association, because we couldn't help them, even if the reason we weren't the
reason, that's why I'm so affected, and I think that everyone, if you, for example,
if you have just one ceremony or just a piece of bread, you should share it with others,
and if you also need help, it's not, for example, it's not something for be ashamed, yes, for
be ashamed, and you just have to ask someone for help.
Maybe there is someone who is always ready to help you, and I think that it's very important
that, again, I mentioned this part, that it's very important to help someone, it doesn't
matter how, you can help them mentally, you can, for example, someone is very upset, and
you can just say one, for example, inspirational word, I don't know, you just say something
and they'll survive, it can be a whole world for them, and so you can help them, and you
can help them mentally, you can give them something, and I think that it's very important
to share with everything that you have, it doesn't matter, it's knowledge, it's money,
it's something for eat, it doesn't matter, we should help each other because we depend
on each other, I think.
SHYAM GOLLAKOTA That is truly good and inspirational, I thank
you for sharing this, and I encourage everyone to volunteer, to support volunteers, because
like you said, you can change a person's world with something that is very small to you.
And to ask you even more, you're a Pamirian girl, maybe many people in the world don't
know who are the Pamirian people, what is the culture, how is the attitude, can you
share a bit more about Pamirian people, who they are, and what is their culture today?
TATIANA So, about Pamir and its culture and its people,
this is also one of the exciting questions, Pamir is such a versatile land, I don't
know which part to describe, let's start from a moral point of view, there's such
a thing as a moral culture, we are supported by this culture in the first place, I mean,
this culture includes equality, understanding, indifference, hospitality, kindness, and so
on.
Further, we have very beautiful national cloths and red skullcap, so you can, for example,
someone is interested in Rhea Gulls podcast, in this account there are a lot of Pamirian
girls with our national addresses, it's represented, I mean, Pamirian girls and Pamirian culture,
and Pamir is a mountainous region in Tajikistan, and many tourists come to Tajikistan just
to see the Pamirian mountains and nature, where we have springs, where we have the most
delicious water, and the kindest people, and the freshest air, and I think that if I talk
about the Pamirs, it will take a lot of time, so if anyone wants to explore, or if they
are someone who are interested, they can search on the internet, or they can just read the
Wikipedia, or just tell me, just text me and I'll tell you a lot for hours.
Thank you so much, that's absolutely interesting.
And to understand even more, what are your future dreams and goals in the medical field?
What do you want to do?
What kind of specific patients do you want to help, is it children, is it women, is it
all people?
Tell me more about your vision when you finish your education for your career in the medical
sphere.
My plan for future, of course, I want to become the best specialist in my field, and be able
to help people, people who really need it.
If everything goes according, I mean, if everything goes according to plan, and if I can, then
somehow I will finally make some change to the formations of our state, I mean, formations
of education of our state, because there is a lack of practice and many barriers stop
us.
Of course, there are many positive aspects, but we need to move on, and I really want
to convey to everyone that helping is so easy, and it's so pleasant, we all need each other
– not knowing something is not a problem, asking for help is not scary, it's okay.
And I want to help people in such a way that it's not that they just have to be full
and eat, or they just be warm, no, I just want to help them so that they have a reliable
and chance to live their own life, and I would like to encourage everyone to join in a good
deed, be indifferent to others, and believe that the boomerang will definitely return.
And for our own and for personal, I would like to say that sometimes it's very important
to just come to the border of your own understanding, listen to yourself, give yourself time and
allow yourself to be ill or sad if it's necessary, but after it that you need to wipe up your
tears and just get up, learn more, educate yourself, educate others, help others, be
a volunteer, and everything will be okay.
If every of us, for example, if every of us tries, it'll be the best result, I think,
we will get the best result.
Thank you, Malohat.
It was my privilege and my honor to include you in this project, you.
I wish you success.
I wish you to help all the people in the world and to change all the things that you believe
should improve in Tajikistan and for everyone else.
Thank you again for participating.
Thank you so much towards the very end, very good, towards the best interview ever for
this month, for this year.
Thank you very much for this opportunity.
And I am very thankful and I am really happy that my voice can be heard.
Even if, for example, 10 or 20 new people just can hear me, that will be enough and
that will make me very happy.
Thank you very much for this opportunity.
Thank you very much and good luck to you too.
Thank you.
