Wednesday, June 23, 2010

1st Event- LAN community service


On the morning of 30Th January, everyone met in front of Taylor’s college and then we headed to Taman Megah Disabled Children’s Home in two cars. We prepared candies, jelly and boxed drinks since we are aware that those are the all time favorite of children. Then came the challenging part when we reached the home. Nothing much was expected but somehow the conditions of the children there gave us chills and most of us thought that it is going to be a tough ride dealing with them. Some were crying when they saw us, some were too used to this type of visits that they did whatever they were doing at that time and there was one who liked to shake hands so much with everyone of us. The supervisors greeted us with much welcome and briefed us on the children here. “The ones who are tied to the wall are actually very ‘violent’ in the sense of anyone passing by them would get hit” said one of the supervisor.

The level of blurriness in everyone of us showed quite obviously as we have never handled these type of children before and we were afraid that we might make mistakes in handling them because most of them are emotionally fragile. So came the consciousness in us that this is not just another project to be done, or recorded, but it is a human act which is the responsibility of us students to know and have the knowledge of it since we all live an easy live if compared to these children. We could only wish the children was as lucky as those normal teenagers out there who are given higher degree of education and in return those teenagers would learn more of the hardships in life out the without taking things for granted. Altogether, an experience to be remembered.


Community service group: Thomas, Marco, Guang Jian, Koay, Alan and me.



Quiggled by Maybelle Yeow at 9:48 PM
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