After holding a few
charity events in many other schools, it was time for me to travel all the way
to SJK(T) Methodist which is located at Kapar, Selangor.
It was planned a few months ago. My team comprised of both my parents, my
sister, her bf and my gf. Before we moved there, all of us gathered at my house
in Setia Alam whereby we had our homemade breakfast as well as doing some last
minute preparations and arrangements.
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| School Entrance |
We took off in two cars with each of the car carrying their own
stuffs ranging from A4 papers, story books and stationeries. It took us half an
hour to reach the school and thank god the traffic wasn’t bad at that time.
Upon reaching there, we
were greeted by the senior assistant (student affairs) Pn. Mangai. All of us were
taken around the school to have a glimpse at the school’s environment and to be
frank, the school is much more different from the previous schools that we had
visited. The school basically consists of two triple storeys long block which
houses the classrooms, teachers’ room, library, office, TV room, science lab
and canteen. The school had around 1200 students with more than 60 teachers stationed
over there. There are a total of 64 classrooms with every standard having 6
classes each.
Around the school
After walking around and
noticing that we were running out of time, we quickly unloaded the items that
were crammed in both the cars to be brought over to the office.
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| Donated items |
It took us a while to transport the stuffs to the office since it
was located on the second floor. Each of us had our own task during this period
of time. One can be seen walking up and down with the teachers transporting the
items, the others were busy setting up the items in the office. I was busy
snapping my best shots around the school. It was a great teamwork I would say
by all of them!
We were then invited to the TV room/multimedia room to distribute
the items to the students. Since it was a public holiday, the school only
managed to gather around 20 kids to receive the items and all of them seemed to
be very excited.
Later on, the senior
assistant gave his welcoming speech. In his speech, he told us about the history
of the school and the achievement of the students in the school. Than it was
time for the goodies-giving ‘ceremony’. Each of the kids came up to me to
receive the story books which are donated for the library. ‘Nandri anne. Nandri uncle. ‘.
These would be the sentences that I could hear from those kids continuously and
of course, I could only utter ‘Nalla
padingge thambi/thangachi‘ to all those kids like an
automated Sri Rasi Silk Store mannequin’s robotic voice. Finally, I handed over
a box of A4 papers (total 14 boxes) to the teacher. Basically the schools need
around 1000 papers a month for various usages such as printing letters, exam
papers, work sheets and many more. The school also presented me with a token of
appreciation.
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| Distributing The Items To The Kids and Teacher |
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| Receiving the token of appreciation |
Then came the most
surprising moment of my life. My sister and I were asked to give a short
motivating speech to the students. Since it was a Tamil school, I needed to
speak in Tamil but my Tamil is very poor. I decided to talk in English and some
Malay. I told them how my parents brought me up till how successful I am today.
My sister who is a doctor also talked on the same matter and added a few
points. From the faces of the students, they looked very motivated and eager to
work hard.
The Hindu Sangam of Kapar
also organizes religious classes for the surrounding Indian community there.
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| Religious Classes For The Kids |
After that, all of us headed over to the canteen to
have some refreshments prepared by the school. The kids can be seen smiling
throughout the whole day and they seemed to be enjoying our presence there. We
even took some time chatting with them, interviewing as well as took some
photography session with them. I’m not sure if those kids enjoyed their day to
the max but we did, definitely! Throughout the day, it
was really an enjoying moment for all of us and we were glad that we enjoyed
each and every second we spent in that school. I take this opportunity to thank
all our donators and contributors regardless of the amount that you donated and
special thanks goes to those who took their time to spread the word about our
charity plan to others although some of you couldn’t afford to donate.
Finally, it was time for us to say goodbye to all those kids and
teachers. We packed our stuffs, had a last chat with the teachers and not forgetting,
and took some photographs again before leaving the school compound. Although we
were tired, but we definitely were delighted to see the smiles on each of the
kids face. All these were made possible by our donators and contributors (of
course, to our supporters and well-wishers as well). Without you, we are
nothing.
We bid farewell to the
teachers and kids and left the school around 12.30pm. We did it once again and
remember, we will always do it BECAUSE EVERY CHILD COUNTS. 