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| Arriving, |
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| Enjoying the cake ............ |
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| Serving the cake.... |
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| Hand Print |
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| Celebrating Birthday! |
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| My New friend! |
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| Group Photos |
“Every time you come, you bring
surprises and joy to the children” this is what Mr. Soloman, the founder of
Batu Grace Orphanage home telling us when we were there for the birthday party!
Our connection with these under
privilege children started last year, when a group of (including myself) from
Asia Work’s graduates initiated Shoe box Christmas present project. For this project, we went to old folk home
and orphanage to distribute the presents and gifts donated by friends during
Christmas. This is how we landed in Batu
Grace home.
Then, we were informed by Mr.
Solaman that more than 40 children need to go to school and there urgently need
a van to send them to school. So, my another group of friends from MADE(Make a difference every day) decided to help them to
raise fund and manage to get them a second hand van worth RM18,000.
This Raya, QQ wanted to contribute
Raya Smile to all these children and also children who are undernourished by
collecting the donation in terms of money and goods. The objective is simple, we want to teach our
children to learn how to give and how to help others who are under privilege.
We are happy that this Raya smile
project was getting overwhelming support from our parents. We managed to
collect more than RM5000 in terms of cash and goods. Half of the cash were given to Batu Grace and
another 50% were donated to the nourishing the children initiative to help 38
children from dying of malnutrition for a month.
To make the event more meaningful,
QQ Kulim and Padang Serai organized a birthday party at Batu Grace home to
celebrate birthday together with the children.
Some parents even take leave to join us celebrating the birthday with
the children there. I was touched by our
QQ children when some of them donated their saving from their coin box , some passed me the pocket
money for the donation, the amount of the money is not important, the important
learning here is the act of willing to give, share and help others!
More than 100 children and parents
visited the home on 17.8.12(Friday). We
dance with the children and doing the Jalur Gemilang with the hand print from
all children. The most exciting moment
for the children is the birthday celebration as they have an opportunity to
taste different birthday cakes( total 27 cakes) and also “ice potong” specially
make for them.
It was a memorable event for most of
the children and we can see smile and gratitude on their faces. The most satisfying moment for me is that we
have made a difference in their life and we hope the children grow up happily
and healthily!
Lastly, I would like to express my
sincere gratitude to all the parents, teachers, children that has contributed
to this Raya smile project. This may be
5% of what we do, but it represents 95% of who we are!
for more information on Batu grace and nourishing the children initiative :
Batu Grace -http://bit.ly/SfveiD
http://bit.ly/NvZ3pL
Nourishing the children initiative : http://bit.ly/NWvikJ
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