Our Tamil School Charity Plan – The Story

As promised, we have successfully executed our charity activity on the 9th of July 2009. To be frank, this would be the second charity activity that I have been involved after being hooked up with another charity a few weeks back, which was the “Sri Lankan War Victims Charity Car Wash“.

Well, basically, everything was well-planned and we are glad that we never went through any “downs” compared to the “ups” that we gained throughout the execution. Anyway, the school that we visited was SJK(T) Pulau Carey Selatan (Banting) and believe it or not, the total students in that school were only 44+ students. Brother Durai had explained pretty well on what happened during our journey to that school thus I won’t be touching that part in detail.

The moment we reached that school, we were like “So, where’s the other buildings?”. Well, it seems that the school is just fit enough to cater all those 44+ students with their moderate-conditioned classrooms, a small HM room and a mini-library. The school toilet were demolished recently and it seemed that they rebuilt it on a separate ground and I’m not sure about the water supply over there as the moment we had a peek inside, there was no water!
 

Leaving that aside, we quickly gathered at what-seemed-to-be their ‘canteen’ and there was Mr. Satish, the person in charge (since the HM was not around). He was a very nice man and he acknowledged our visit to that school and even asked our whereabouts and exchanged some questions amongst each other. He was very delighted with our motive to help that school in a way that we could and thanked us in advance. Without hesitation, he quickly asked all the students to gather at the ‘canteen’ and believe me, all the students were very well-mannered and disciplined. It was quite usual for those students to chit-chat with one another at first and there was another lady teacher who came forward and warned them to remain silent. Well, that won’t be something new to us though.

Then, we started serving the Mee Hoon followed by KFC (3 buckets that have been bought earlier) to all those kids one by one. They seemed to be so happy and amused knowing the fact that they are being served KFC, Mee Hoon along with some soft drinks. Before they started to eat, Mr. Satish gave a short speech and even asked the students to thank us for our motive, as how you could see in the video above. Well, frankly speaking, their ‘thanks’ should go to all our donators and contributors especially for making this charity plan a big success.

While we were filming and chit-chatting with some of those kids while they were busy eating, we were being bombarded with tons of requests for “Chilly sauce”. It seems that the chilly sauce packets were not sufficient for them and we had one last packet, which we have no choice but to let it being shared by 3 kids. Then, came one of the teachers demanding for a packet of Chilly sauce as well! Oh my, we had a hard time saying that we don’t have any chilly sauce packets left to all of them.



Later on, it was time for them to go back to class. While were we talking at the front door of one of the classes, we noticed that the ‘canteen’ table was so clean and tidy. That was amazing to see how fast they managed to clean everything up by themselves. Then, we visited each and every classes to donate all the stuffs that we bought for them. The stuffs include:

• 1 full stationery set

• Extra Pencils
• 5 exercise books
• A box of color pencils

Out of those 44+ students, 10 students were identified as ‘extremely poor’ and we’ve decided to hand over some special ‘gifts’ to them, which includes:

• A school bag

• A full set uniform (Pants, Shirts, Skirts)
• A pair of shoes
• 3 pairs of stockings

Wait, there’s more! We even gave away a full set of exercise books to all those Standard 6 students as it would be very useful for them to revise for their upcoming examinations. There were some other stationeries that were meant for two other schools that we were *supposed* to visit, which were SJKT Pulau Carey Timur and SJKT Pulau Carey Barat but we handed it over to Mr.Satish as he told us that he would give them on behalf of us. We then left the school around 12pm and at the front gate, brother Durai gave RM10 to the school’s guard as a token of appreciation.

Throughout the day, it was really an enjoying moment for all of us and we were glad that we enjoyed each and every second we spent in that school. I take this opportunity to thank all our donators and contributors regardless of the amount that you donated and special thanks goes to those who took their time to spread the word about our charity plan to others although some of you couldn’t afford to donate.
 

Brother Lizard: RM 50
Sashi : RM 50
Thilaga : RM 50
Viji (vijayasengodan.blogspot.com) : RM 50
Renuga Devi(Cameron Highland) : RM 100
Vinodthren (Sungai Buloh) : RM 30
Sasi (Sungai Buloh): RM 30
Sri and Friends : RM 100
Priti (Eds) : RM 50
Gowri Narayanan ( Ipoh, Perak) : RM 50
Veni Paramalingam (Kepong) : RM 30
Suren KL( Sri Nageswary Amman Urumee Melam,Sg.Besi): RM 200
Dharshini (Kepong) : RM 100
Nithz (www.nithzroaming.blogspot.com) : RM 100
Kamini (subang) : RM 50
Malathi (batu caves) : RM 50
Linda Schiavi : RM 175.10
Umayal : 500 pencil
Ilayaraja : 800 notebooks
Nicholas : 50 notebooks

 

Without you people, our charity plan would be a total failure. By now, the kids would be enjoying carrying around their stationery sets and their colors pencils and showing off to each other their skills in drawing and coloring and not forgetting, those ‘special’ kids who got a new bag, new set of uniform and new pair of shoes. YOU, our donators/contributors, are the reason for putting a smile on their face and hopefully, that smile would remain forever.

Kindly apologise us if there are any flaws in our plan and if you are not satisfied about something or wish to get some clarification from us, you are free to contact us or leave your comment in this post. We have even put up a proof (breakdown of the things that we have purchased with YOUR MONEY) and this is also to ensure that we’ve NEVER misused any of your money for our own things. Refer HERE

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Thank you all! May god bless all of you for making our plan a big success! Valge M1.

For the other version of the story of our charity activity, visit RagedIndian.com.