Friends of Kapar

What a memorable day … thanks to Shell Malaysia

Admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:33:13 +0000

The theme for Shell Downstream IT Away Day this year is Giving Back To The Community, and this is done via three Good Deeds with the Kapar community.

One of the Good Deed was done last Sat, 24 July, whereby a team of 31 Shell staff brought excitement, joy and laughter to 102 underprivileged children in SJKT Ladang Bt Cheraka. The children received school essentials like shoes, socks, track pants and t-shirts, pencil case set and goodie bags of tidbits and packet drinks. The school teachers and staff organized a Telematch for Shell staff and students, which brought back fond memories of school days for the Shell staff. There were lots of prizes for the students for the telematch games. A&W lunch boxes and root beer drinks were handed out for lunch. But the “thing” that caused the biggest riot (and loudest cheering) was the appearance of the A&W mascot. The children was ECSTATIC … they have NEVER eaten A&W food/drinks in their entire life, let alone have the chance to play and mingle with the mascot. It really made their day … and apart from having fun, I am sure the Shell staff felt REALLY REALLY GOOD after spending their entire Saturday morning with the children.

And of course, as the project leader for this event, I was overjoyed … the event was a HUGE SUCCESS and everyone had a GOOD TIME!!!

Thank you Shell, for your generous sponsorship of this event. And thanks to the Milo sampling team too for your support at the event.

Here are some pictures from the event.

Kim and her “Happy Kids”…

Jubilant Shell crowd …

Shell Manager decked in songket shawl and colourful garland giving a speech…

Teachers running the games …

The kids engrossed in one of the games…

Shell staff trying hard to keep the little pillows on her head …

Milo sampling team in action

The girls enjoying their breakfast of cream bun and Milo …

New look for CNC Library … thanks to GAB

Admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:30:33 +0000

The GAB HR dept chose to refurbish our little library at the CNC as an activity for their community day program. The team of 8 came to the centre last Friday (23 July), with shelves, books, rugs, curtains, cushions, kiddie table and stools, posters, radio, and other knick knacks to do up the library. They spent about 3 hours and the outcome was fantastic. The library is warm and cosy, and definitely more conducive for our Kapar kids to read and browse the books.

Thank you GAB for this kind and generous gesture!

Elizabeth, our Librarian and Kim

Cute little shelves with new books (including Enid Blytons … how I used to devour those books during my younger days)

A table and stools for the little ones …

And our new curtains …

Health checks for Kapar residents

Admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:17:53 +0000

Lions/Ti-Ratana Mobile Clinic conducted a medical camp for the residents of Sg Kapar Indah and its surrounding area on Sunday, 4th July 2010. The Headmaster of SJKT Ladang Vallambrosa was kind enough to lend us his school premises to run the medical camp. Volunteer doctors, nurses, pharmacists and allied medical personnel, as well as the organisers, members of Apex club and Leo Club arrived as early as 8am to set up the camp. There were 9 stations – Dental, Women’s clinic, Children’s clinic, Pharmacy, Audio check, Glucose check, BP check, BMI check, and General medical consultation.

It was a slow start, as residents had to make their way to the medical camp site on foot, and to make it worst, it rained cats and dogs soon after we started the clinic. Fortunately, the rain subsided by mid-morning and the crowd came in bigger numbers. In total, 248 residents participated, comprising 92 adult females, 38 adult males and 118 children. This was very close to our target of 250.

We provided cream buns and cream crackers (sponsored by Julie’s) and nescafe (sponsored by Nestle) for breakfast and snacks. But the BEST meal for the day was of course the lunch served by volunteers from the Ti-Ratana Meals on Wheels.

Slightly more than a week after the medical camp, the organizer called with the list of cases for follow-up. A total of 32 residents required follow-up check-ups in Klang GH and Kapar Clinic. The organizer was so kind as to help us make appointments for all those requiring specialists’ follow-up visits at Klang GH … the organizer really went the EXTRA MILE to do this.

The residents from Kapar would like to thank everyone involved in making this mobile medical camp a SUCCESS!!!

Here are some pictures taken from the event.

Meals on Wheels volunteers serving lunch…

Doesn’t this look yummy?

The kids enjoying their lunch…

A caring elderly mum feeding her mentally retarded son…

Registration

General medical consultation

Pharmacy

Audio check

BP check

Glucose check

BMI check

Dental

Children’s clinic

Breakfast in Bed!

Admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:34:46 +0000

Life has been difficult since we moved to this abandoned house. I really don’t understand what happened and why we had to move to this house. The house is almost bare except for a few pieces of chairs and table recently donated by some generous folks.

This is where we all sleep – my parents, my siblings and myself. I am used to this, perhaps because I have not experienced sleeping in a nicer bedroom.

The visits from Friends of Kapar do brighten our days a little. Last Sat morning, I woke up just in time to have chocolate cream bun for breakfast. Breakfast in Bed … what a TREAT!!!

The GOOD NEWS is last Sunday, a very generous and kind donor donated some stuff to us – furniture and food stuff. Check out this blog for pictures of my “newly redecorated” house:)

Kapar Kidz are Volunteers in Feeding Program

Admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:10:22 +0000

It was a different scene at the Jun Monthly Family Feeding program … 4 of our Kapar Kidz helped with the distribution of the grocery items. For them, it was like a special outing, instead of spending an ordinary Saturday at home. They were happily mingling and chatting with some of their friends, tuition classmates and schoolmates they met during the feeding. They were a big help as we had several extra items to distribute, including a carton of instant maggi noodles per family.

Getting the kids to help out is a way for us to get them involved in community work and instill some sense of responsibility. And they also had FUN as can be seen from some of the pictures taken!!!

This is the vehicle they travelled in during the feeding, definitely not a comfortable ride but it didn’t matter to them.

The weather was so hot that Yoges had to use the box as a head cover … next month I will buy caps for them.

Mohan presenting a mother with a grocery bag. Check out his hairdo … apparently he combed his hair in the van before having his pic taken:)

Yoges carrying a bag of 5kg rice.

Lingeswary delighting a little girl with a cream bun.

Sonia with bread and meehoon for distribution.

Having a break at the playground with some of the Children from a Family in the Feeding program.