Raya Groceries Program (PPR Kg Muhibbah Puchong) - July 2016

2016/11 - We came here in 2013 and this would be our second visit.  It would have been another event, nothing new for the team. But as Murphy’s Law says, if things are going to go wrong, it will. So our adventure begin in the morning, started with the lorry arriving late, loading take sometime and as we ready to leave Klang, we were told that the tyre has punctured!

So, we were stuck in Klang, while the rest of team at location. Clock is ticking and we called up backup lorry to help out while first lorry was trying to fix the tyre. Meanwhile, at a balai raya far far away, the team decided to inform the recipients that the group will disperse and come back in the evening to pick up the groceries, which lucky there were stuff being transported by volunteers.

We waited quiet a while before we were told the lorry got stopped by highway police. After all the mess had been sorted out, unloading and loading of 80 bags of rice (actually 160 bags!) to second lorry was a breeze and we depart for location. 

Finally, we arrived at location 3 hours late.. and unload the rice and eggs to the centre, for 5pm distribution. Many thanks to all the volunteers who man the fort while waiting for lorry to arrived. See you in our next event!

80 bags in lorry 1... 

Happening la!!!! Tyre burst! Too heavy and I am not even in the lorry!

Back to back transfer.. 80x2 = 160 bags of rice again! 

Meanwhile... at the PPR....

The anxious crowd....

Additional items that was sponsored and grateful that at least the recipients get something

Announcement....

Arrival at the PPR

Volunteers @Work

Yeah..all unloaded

Visit to Pusat Kebajikan Ci Hang Chempaka Selangor

2016/10 - The first visit was initiate by Dr Azma and Roshidah earlier by dropping some necessary items at the home, and we agreed that it would be one of 1M1c destination. Our planned visit finally fall into place on 19 June 2016. We had a lot of contributors for the event. Lunch was catered, cooked by Kembara Kitchen, and were glad that they like the food very much. We took some time to chit chat with the old folks, which I think its important to listen to them of their vast experience. Some of the ladies are 78-80yrs old and still looking like they are 60s! For the very first time, we had karaoke at an event and they also have a very good singer! So, dont under estimate them! Our volunteer singer had problem letting go of the microphone and I would like to emphasis that the heavy rain in the evening had nothing to do with the singing. Thank you to the volunteers who came and help to get the grocery items, and also sponsors additional items e.g. Tupperware cookies and chrysanthemum drinks. See you in our next event!

A bit on Ci-Hang Chempaka home - it was established in 1986 as a registered welfare organization providing services to the poor, abandoned, aged, physically challenged individuals, and those who are being put the most unfortunate living situations. It also provide physiotherapy and stroke rehabilitataion to stroke patience, financial assistance to the poor and free tuition classes to the needy students. 

The home is supported through public donations. If you like to donate to the home directly, you can donate through here. 

http://www.persatuankebajikancihang.org.my/cihang_donations.htm

The magnificent view

Grocery for the Needies @Kg Seri Puchong - May 2016

2016/9 - Our usual Grocery for the Needy program bring us to Kg Seri Puchong for 80 needy families. As usual, we work with the village committee to identify the needy families, and also those old folks that need additional items like diapers and milk powder. Thank you Dr Azma and Roshida for the help to put this event together ;)

80 bags of rice....load and unload TWICE coz of RM1

Security check

Crowd waiting for the team...

Event start

Looks like a party!

1st station.. plastic bag station... 

Stacking up and ready....

Additional items sponsored.. TQ!

Delivery service...

1M1c The Next Gen

Happy recipients

I have to apologise for the long wait to the recipients and also volunteers at the Dewan on that day. While we try to do our best, due to unforeseen logistics issue, we were delayed and made everyone to wait for us.. ;( We also like to thank additional items sponsored which means the recipients get more than the original grocery pack. So TQVM! Till our next event.. ;)

Rice Project for 160 Needy Families @Bukit Merah, Ipoh - April 2016

2016/8 - For April 2016, we work with Living Hope Global (LHG) to reach out to the 160 students from 8 Chinese primary schools. LHG's program provide school meals to the poor and needy students. 20 poor families per school are selected for this program. Each meal is budgeted at RM2 for 20 days x 20 students x 10 months, which comes about RM8k per year. The event is for the cheque presentation to the individual schools.

Our original program was to provide 5kg of rice to all the children. As this is our first time venturing a remote place, we requested from Living Hope’s coordinator, Mr Wong to help us to coordinate which was quickly done. With our generous sponsors, Chua and Leong family, we managed to top up to 10kg! :) Some teachers were surprised to see the bags of rice as its the first time rice were donated. 

The background of the family are single parent/dad/mom. Most of them are casual workers where average salary is about RM700. For Bukit Merah, there are a lot of shoe factories in that area and families are doing part time work for income. They have better income during festive seasons due to additional work while the rest of the year would be basic pay. Some families send their children to work for RM5 a day. For smaller towns are outskirt of Ipoh, so prices of things are pricey as it follow the town price. A bit tough to survive with the type of salary. With current economy situations, we know price of everything has gone up and every little dollar counts. 

As we were about to leave, we managed to talked to the one school teacher, who explained that one of her student is very happy as the rice at home just finished 2 days back. :( I think it must be hard for children to even talk about not having rice at home, coz I KNOW most of our kids wont even know if there is no more rice at home. After all, their First World problem is iPad ran out of battery! 

My appreciation to all the headmasters and teachers of the 8 schools, who have gone beyond their call of duty as educators, just to ensure the children does not go back hungry, and LHG for having this program! And not forgetting our all 1M1c sponsors (yes, all of you!), the Chua family, Leong family and Moh Marketing Sdn Bhd…and off course Sanddie Cheong​ for inviting us...TQVM.

https://www.facebook.com/LivingHopeGlobal/?fref=ts

Lunch @ Pusat Jagaan Anbe Sivam Klang - April 2016

2016/7 - We had earlier planned lunch for the home in order to give them a change of taste. After some menu hunting, we had our menu - meatball chicken, fried cabbage, sweet sour fish and jelly. The children had a wonderful lunch today and thank you to sponsor! Not forgetting sponsors for biscuits, bread, milk powder, soya sauce and oyster sauce for their daily needs. I went over to Kembara Kitchen earlier to sneak at the cook-in-command on his cooking... Needless to say, fish and chicken meal balls are popular with the kids and volunteers... ok, we did taste a BIT only la..