Name : Liew Jin Long
Matrix number : CEB150072
There are a lot of activities that we can do to help people, but through what? Visiting old folks house? Sweep the street? Donate blood? These activities keep coming into our mind when we need to summit or proposal during Week 13 at the first semester. There are a ton of activities we choose. At last, we end up with Dapur Jalanan and Sekolah Bimbingan Jalinan Kasih.
I learnt a lot from these 2 activities. But before that, I want to thanks University Malaya for offering this course to let us feel what is the taste to help people. Secondly, I need to thanks to our supervisor, Dr. Zalfa Laili Hamzah for sacrificing her time to make sure that we done the job correctly. Afterthat, I want to give a credit to our group leader, Mohd Zafran Qayyum Bin Mohn Zaki and his asistant, Ambiga Krishnan that leading us to held the program that we already proposed. Next, I want to thank my group members for giving their 200% effort and very high commitment in doing their job. I also want to apology for the thing I did it wrong during the activities goes.
Volunteering, freely offer himself to do something can be a amazing experience. This is the experience that I can't learn from the book. Through these activities, what I learn the most is patient. By asking people to buy cupcake, helping the NGO to prepare the food to the urban poor, and taking care or even teaching the kid need a lot of patient. I used to a impatient person, after these activities, i learn that need to be calm when treating people.
Gift given to every student in the class.
This is the boy, which I am in-charge to guide him to draw during the drawing contest. He is too shy to draw and he said he want to draw fire-fighter's truck (due to the influence of the film show to them right before the drawing contest) but he don't have a clue to draw that. I showed him the way to draw the truck but he said it was too hard to draw. Under this circumstance, I draw a lot of things and asked him try to copy it. He's just smiling at me and doing nothing. I used up to 30 minutes and finally convince him to draw a house at the paper (which is show on the photo). The process teach me to calm down when dealing with people.
The next thing I learn is team work. The activities is impossible to conduct if there is only one person in-charge in everything. From the start, we conduct a meeting to determine the position, discuss the activities want to be held, fund raising until the end of the activities, we are all together. There is a bond among ourselves now. We design our own shirt to wear when the activities goes to show our unity. Everyone is helping each others and everyone is carrying each others. The efforts that given by all of the group members let the program run as planned.
Team members are preparing food.
The next value that I learnt from these activities is caring. There are still a lot of urban poor and even street kid that need our helping hand. As a human being, we tent to get emotional when watching film that talk about homeless and abandoned kid, but we don't do something to help them get out of the bad area that they are living now. Through these activities, at least I can help some of the people in difficulty and solve their problem. For instant, after the food distribution, the poor don't have to starve the whole night. I think that the whole communities have to take care of these poor people. Even animal can help each others, why human can't?
Moreover, the value I learnt is responsible. We have the responsible to do things and we have to responsible to the thing that we done. When a task is given, we have to make sure it is done before the due date given or else the proposal will be useless. Everybody in the team are being useful and each of the team members take their own responsibility. We are given a position in the group and we have our own task to do.
Position list of the group.
Last but not least, I'm feeling grateful for my life. After conducted the activities, I realize that I live in a good place and environment compare to the people there is not even have a bed to sleep. I am appreciate that I meet my group members and even meet Dr. Zalfa. Thank you for carrying me and you guys will be the person that I will never forget in my whole time.
Group photo after conduct second activity - Dapur Jalanan.
Group photo with the student of Pre-School in Sekolah Bimbingan Jalinan Kasih.
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