Back-To-School Program for Pusat Jagaan Beribuan Kasih

26 November 2011  -  Today, we bring with us the charitable spirit of our friends and kind benefactors to this Home in Kajang.  Even though they were not there in person to hand-over their gifts and contributions but their generosity and kindness is deeply felt and appreciated by the Caretaker, Miss Kavitha and her kids.  I have taken the initiative to tag each gift and contribution with the respective “Uncles” and “Aunties” names so that the kids may thank them personally in their hearts and prayers.  Strangers they may be to each other and physically apart but their love and kindness made them all “family” in heart.  These kids’ plight have touched the hearts of these kind donors, who contributed in one form or another, big or small, to ensure that their schooling needs for 2012 are fulfilled.  
 
Our initial intention was to source for sponsorship of uniforms and shoes only, but as word got around among friends, gifts in form of stationery started pouring in too.  Apart from ourselves, the following persons have generously contributed towards the uniforms for the 14 kids.  A Big THANK YOU is not even enough to express our appreciation and gratitude to them;  Mrs. Tong, Mr. Ravi, Encik Masran & Friends, Mr. Alex Teng, Madam Lee Seok Fong. 

Mr. Woo, is another Good Samaritan, who big-heartedly contributed 14 BATA vouchers for the school shoes.  My dear sister, even though a bit financially tight, also put in her contribution in form of school socks. 

The gifts of stationery were caring thoughts from Encik Zaidi, who sponsored a whole bag of stationery goodies, Encik Aliakbar who approached Hubby with a stack of colour pencils for the kids and again Mr. Alex Teng, who apart from sponsoring 3 sets of uniforms also bought each kid a pencil case with stationery.

From Uncle Zaidi with Love

From Uncle Aliakbar with Love

From Uncle Alex with Love

The tender side of Hubby

Musical Chairs 

The kids’ elated faces on seeing these goodies are priceless.  They are such appreciative dears, simple things can bring so much joy to them.  Maybe it just goes to show how sadly lacking their lives are.  They not only hunger for food but also for love and warmth.  And dear Hubby, acknowledging this fact, took time to interact with them.  The kids were joyous to be showered attention upon and were seen happily chatting away with Hubby.  A few of them proudly showed him their trophy, a symbol of their achievement in school. 

While Hubby and kids sportingly obliged the kids with a game of Musical Chairs, I took this moment to talk to some of the dear old folks.  On our last trip, one of the them told us how sad she was to lose her rosary, so we presented her with a new one which Hubby’s friend obtained from his Church.  Upon seeing this, an old uncle shyly asked if he could have a Buddha pendant and another asked for Mantra bead bracelet.  This will definitely be on our list when we visit them next.



By the way, cooking in this Home will no longer pose a danger as Hubby bought them a brand-new gas stove to replace the broken one and also thoughtfully got them a bigger Wok to cater to the large quantity of cooking done.

The rain that pour upon us as we left this Home could not cool off the warmth in our hearts, put there by the lovely kids and our good friends charitable deeds.  These kids can now look forward to going to school with pride in their new uniforms and white shoes and new stationery.  They may be deprived of their natural parents' love and care but the caring uncles' and aunties' kind generosity saw to it that they can also start school just like other kids.