Greetings, this is Haris Adli from DC9 group 1, together with my other 8 friends of Taylor's University, we had to study a module called Community Service Initiative this semester (5). The name of the module kind of explains what's the module is about. Basically we have to voluntarily work intended to help people in a particular area, or even animals, like going to the orphanage or the animal shelter. my group and I decided to choose orphanage as they like kids. They've tried to contact many orphan's houses, some of them rejected, some of them are fully booked, until they found 1 orphan's house called Pusat Jagaan Rumah Juara located in Jalan 1/5 Petaling Jaya.
This is my first ever visit to the orphans, and by this visit, I discovered a new piece of information about that type of institution in my country (Malaysia). Quite a trip, actually. Enough to make me wanting to write about it besides that I had to. I'm typing this on 3/15/16, so for the time being, we have visited them 3 times and there's 1 more to go. On the first visit, where we first met them, there are bunch of kids probably from 3 to 12 years old and most of them are Indians. As what I've observed, their guardian is very strict but for me personally it's something that they had to do in order to put some attitude and behavior in those kids as the kids are very playful and all, but then again, it's a kid thing, that's what kids do, they play and do not care.
The first week of our project we've done colouring. We printed out sets of 2 different colouring paper and brought colouring pencils where they had to share the colouring pencil, well, this would teach them the value of sharing, I guess. As we interacted with them over time, we get to see their differences in term of personality, some of them are very quiet, some are not, one like to bully and the other just dont really care but what they have in common is that they're friendly.
On the second visit, we did'nt really do much, we brought coloured paper and teach them how to make origami. The kids that sat with me did'nt really get what I teach, but what do I expect? they're like 5, and there's also someone who didnt even bother to try folding the paper. simplest folding is to make airplanes. Once the folding is done, you dont know how's the mess there is in the room. Funny thing about that day is one of the kid asked me to fold a boat for him and I tends to forgot how to fold it, so I asked a friend of mine to fold it for the kid but she also didnt know it either. We didnt spent much time with the kids on that day as they need to have their lunch by that time.
We still remembered that on the first visit, we brought meals for the kids, a complete meals of carbs, protein, minerals and so on that has been cooked by my friends, but the guardians told us that the kids will have their lunch on 12pm everyday. That is the time that we usually come and visit the orphans, so the guardians told us maybe we could bring something lighter next time like having a high tea. So on our third visit, we decided to share some of the culinary knowledge and experience that we had. My friends make a doughnut dough and we brought it together with a portable stove to the orphans and teach them how to knead, roll and shape the dough before frying it and in the end, they get to eat their own product. They seems like they had a lot of fun that day. I think that is their first time dealing with doughnuts and frying, so it's a new experience for them.
That's all for the first 3 visit. Looking forward for more :)
-Haris Adli
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