On 1st of August 2009, Leo Club of Penang (City) had successfully jointly organised a Cross Region Community Service Project with SMJK Pei Yuan Kampar and SMK Methodist ACS Kampar ar Beautiful Gate Home for Disabled, Kampar. The whole journey from Penang to Kampar took us about 3 hours. It was a great journey as we had successfully move out of Penang Island to some other place for service. The Organizing Chairperson, Leo Teoh Him Keat said that, this was a great experience as sharing and caring for the needy ones have no boundaries at all. (extracted from DC Alan's blog) I agreed that too. There shouldn't be any boundary to serve the needy but it would be more meaningful if we get the local leos to join us as well. This is what we did for this project... It will be more and more so if you are interested to have one with us, contact our President Stanley. I was told that the next station will be Kedah!!!!
By the way, there are a total of 7 Penang City members namely PP Kok Sheng, PP Fiona, President Stanley Saw, Secretary Roxanne, OC Him Keat, Jameson and Fa Liang. The Lions present in this project were the Cabinet Officers and of course is none other than our very own Region 1 Chairperson, Zone 1 Chairperson, DC-Leo Lion Alan Thoo and RCC-Leo Lion Ong Lai Peng. We were glad to have so many Lions visited this project and thanks for their generousity donation of RM 500+. As a whole, we used the donation to buy some daily necessities (approx.RM240) and cash donation of RM300 to the home. Althought it is not much but it is really fantastic to have every visting lions to suppor this meaningful project! Once again, thank you very much for the support!
After all the visiting Lions gone back, we started our program for the day. What we did? Very simple... we started to understand thme more thru our conversation with the disabled. Myself, I like to start my conversation with "about the home". This is what I do in order for myself to understand the home so that I can talk more related topic with them. There are many branches in Malaysia and Kampar branch plays the role of education. The home provides educational opportunity for those marginalized disabled people especially those who have been deprived of an opportunity to education, and those of the younger age group. If I'm not mistaken, there are 16 persons in the home. There are some volunteers teaching in the home. For more information about the home, you may log on to their website. I see the joy that they have while talking with us, playing table tennis, playing Jenga (not jango ah, ah cheong lol), monopoly deal, paper folding etc.
The project ended with a group photo + donations. Oh ya, i was told that they will be coming to Penang for 1 week for Undang so they need our help on accomodation + transportation. erm... Thinking where can they stay right now... Will discuss further to get some members help... If you are interested to give your helping hands to the needy... do let me know. She will contact me for further arrangement. I will be looking for $ from Lion to provide them free accomodation perhaps.... So lions who are reading this.... please sek chou abit ah :) Oh ya, not to forget to say thanks to Leos from PJI, Anderson Ipoh, Sam Tet, Methodist ACS and Pei Yuan Kampar for joining us the whole afternon :)
(we're in Jalan-Jalan with Zenny Episod 4)
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