Hi…Yeah, it’s me Danson Lee! Our Tautan
Kasih project has just come into the end officially last Saturday on 16th
May 2015. It seems like everything just come and go so fast that now is almost
the end of the second semester. I would like to take the opportunity here to
thank all my Tautan Kasih project members for their responsibility and
commitment for the past two months. Not to forget our supervisors, Dr. Anisah
and Dr. Siti Suzlin for their kind guidance on the project flow.
I have been assigned to lead the
team for this Tautan Kasih project right from the first week the idea is
discussed and presented. Right at that time, we focus our target to be orphans
or kindergarten kids who are keen looking for schooling experience. With the
thinking that we, as university students should and have the ability to give
better experience to them especially in early mathematical abilities. After
searching and contacting with some organisations, finally we fixed our target
to kids from Pusat Aktiviti Kanak-kanak (PAKK), Chow Kit.
For
the very first week we went to PAKK, things seems going to be very tough for us
where we are facing 60 over kids age ranging from 5-12 years old. 14 of us are
going to take care 60 over of them. Ohhh…sounds like mission impossible! But we
did it in the end, how I feel about that? Hmmm…I think I have to describe it
this way------SUPER DUPER TIRED! I have to say, it is really a brand new
experience to me as a university student. For years I did volunteer service
under Ops Selamat during festival seasons, but this volunteer service to engage
and to take care of kids are really my first try.
The
second visit to PAKK brought a different feel. Why I say so? This time we have
had a chance to do a “not so formal” interview with some of the teachers there.
From there, we get a better glance of the history of Yayasan Chow Kit and some relevant
information. In general, Yayasan Chow Kit provides shelter to the homelessness
and education support to those who are not able to go into government school.
From what we observed, the kids there are coming from various background having
their not so happy story behind. All these can be observed along the way to
PAKK where the whole Chow Kit Street are full of foreigners from Bangladesh,
Indonesia etc. The surrounding environment is just not conducive for a child.
Take a visit to Chow Kit Street via PWTC LRT service station then surely you
will agree with me. Why there is no one who sounds and raise up the issue?
Activities
at PAKK go on as usual for few weeks until a big carnival at Kelab Sultan
Sulaiman on 25th April 2015. We been responsible for the game slot
with parents during that day. We are well-planned for that but due to some
delay with the ceremony, our game slot is postponed to one hours later. The
games are carried out so efficiently and we also get a lot of support from the
parents which motivate us under the hot and sunny day. Overall is fun and quite
a success event but the lesson learnt is that we shall be more prepared in term
of item preparation although other party has taken charge for the preparation
of item as they may not know what exactly we wanted to do.
At
the end of this project, I learnt to appreciate the things that are given to us.
As we are from a better family I suppose, that formal education isn’t a big
deal for most of us, we tends to take it as granted, not going to care about
that. But to some of them outside, they are struggling and urgently looking for
a place for their children’s’ education. Who knows whether they are having some
financial problem or not able to obtain the pass to go into government school.
So, we should feel lucky that basic necessities are provided to us as we live
in a stable and developing country.
Besides, I also
learnt to be more patient and thinking at different viewpoints. Try to think
from a different angle and understand how ones feel about a certain issue, put yourself
in their place, then you are able to better understand them. A better
understanding gives an idea of what should be done to have something improved.
As a team leader, I am now better able to distribute tasks and have all my
members participate actively as a team. Together we are StatPower!
Thank you so much
for reading.
Lee Kain Sheng
Director
Director
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