Why?

How can we expect to combat hunger? How can we educate the masses, eradicate disease, and protect the environment? How can we spread the message of peace and eliminate communal hatred, spread the message of empathy and wipe out callousness? How do we expect that in the face of such insurmountable odds, that so many before us have tried to overcome, social service can actually make a difference in the world?
We believe in the power of one, the helping hand of one individual today making a difference in millions of lives tomorrow, we believe in a society that recognizes that it needs to change, that needs to take care of its own people, and that only lacks the information and direction to do so. The alternative is too horrifying to fathom. Our premise is simple, if by doing good work we can made a difference even in just one individual's life, we have not failed. The notion of "I am but one person" needs to be dispelled.
Why are we doing this? Why do we keep banging our heads against the wall?
We do it because the satisfaction that we get from seeing just one smile on another person's face, that one solitary smile which breaks the barriers of language, dumbness, deafness, all physical and mental disabilities and ailments, is an indescribable burst of emotion that fills you, and in that moment, you forget about hatred, you forget about greed, you forget about all the bad emotions welled up inside you, and you're only thought is to how lucky you are to have been there to see this smile that has just lit up your world.
When someone asks me why I do it, why I devote my time to social service, I can only describe to him the uphoric sensation of that one smile. My selfishness drives me to benevolence. So why do we do it? Because, we believe in it, and because we love doing it. We want to make a difference, and we're trying our best.