2010 MY Reading Program Nationwide - Kuching, Sarawak! Sponsored by CIMB

On 02 October 2010, our first mission accomplished at the very first destination - Kuching, Sarawak of the "2010 HOPE worldwide MY Reading Program Nationwide Project"!

We stopped by Sekolah Kebangsaan Serian, which is estimated 50 kilometres away from Kuching town. The school is located at a greenery place, with all the natures surrounding - trees, hills, flowers and of course, fresh air, which are things that we could hardly get in KL.

So, I love this place, and I love the kids there too.

Most of the kids are from the rural community. Learning English seems very hard for them, but never stop their eagerness and passion. We had great fun there!

This is how it goes. The kids were first, very shy and insecure. But when the songs start, they started to sing along, and picking up really fast with all the gestures we taught them, songs like "BINGO", "Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes"and many more!

Then, we had our classics - STORY TELLING ! This time, we had our time favorites since my childhood - Snow White. As the story started, we introduce the Snow White of the day - Du Lin, one of the Volunteer Facilitator for our Reading Program, and we have the rest of the volunteers to play the act as well - The Wicked Stepmother and the Seven Dwarfs!

The kids were just so overwhelmed with all of us! And finally we reached the climax of the story - our prince! Well this time, is not the volunteer to be the Prince Charming, but one of the kids in the Reading Program! His name is Marc Beckham! Woww, what a fancy name he had! So, in the end, Prince Marc Beckham wake the princess up with a blow of Flying Kiss!

Eventually, here we started our Break Out Activities - The Reading Session lead by respective volunteers and the "Learning Alphabets with Play Dough" activities specially designed for kids who have Dyslexia, objective is to help them to progress in recognizing and write the 26 alphabets. Basically, this age range for this group of children is around 5 to 7 years old.

And then, during our game session, we have memory games! We have some flash cards, which contains pictures of different animals on each card. Before the game start, we have a round of studies on every animal that appeared on each card. After that, we shall have a round of tests on the children, see how many of them can able to catch up by telling the name of that particular animal every time we show the card. Then, the game started! We divided the children into two groups, each group of them will have one empty plastic cup which always will be hold by the first person in the group. At th same time, all of the flash cards will be placed randomly on the floor. Once the game start, the facilitator will call one of the name of the animals, eg: snake, then the first person of the group who is holding the cup, shall place the cup on that particular flash card which have the picture of "snake" on it. Who will be the first one who place the cup on the card correctly, will be the winner.

After a round of excitements, now it's time for everybody to sit down and have some snacks and packet drink - cakes, biscuits and milo. Before the snack is served, we trained the children to wash their hands, to emphasize the hand cleanliness before having meal.

Let's call it a day! After the snacks time, will be time to go home! Since this is our very first Reading Program, so, we have a round of photo snapping session! What a great time we have had together!

So, let's check out the pictures

MY Reading Program's classic - STORY TELLING "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"

Game time!

Volunteers preparing the snacks

Jiva, one of our volunteer is, a teacher of SK Serian. He discipline the children so well! As he used to be very serious and stern during the school, now, finally the kids can see his smiling in this Reading Program on Saturday!

Above all, we HOPE worldwide Malaysia with the children of MY Reading Program, would like to express our deepest gratitude to CIMB Bank, for funding us, in order to expand MY Reading Program to Nationwide!

More cities we are heading on our way! Stay tune with us, with more updates on MY Reading Program, sponsored by CIMB!

See you soon!

Good Job for Blood Donation Campaign 2010

With total of 55 people attended this Blood Donation Campaign and ALL qualified as donors! Basically we have exceed the goal of the blood bank - their target is to achieve 50 donors.

Here, we would like to thank to our great sponsors - CNI and Yeos Drinks!

Some snaps of pictures to share as follow...

Thanks to Kee Soon and Crystal for being our photographer !

See you again next year!

Well Again Healthcare Sdn Bhd @ 2010 HOPE worldwide Blood Donation Campaign!

Hi guys,

Here's some updates with our coming blood donation campaign on 24/10/2010:

Well Again Healthcare Sdn Bhd, a centre that provide holistic health care services, they will be with us again for this blood donation campaign! This time, they gonna bring more programs which is very useful for me and you, especially for those who has been very concern and conscious about health issues! Follow as a summary of the health programs that they are gonna organize on that day:

1. Lungs Toxin - have you ever think of, that our lungs will contains toxin? In this check up, you will get to know the rate on how high is the toxin inside your lungs, and preventive action we need to do in order to improve our lungs condition

2. V.S.T - this is specially for FEMALE ONLY. A check up of bacteria in the vagina

3. Oxymatrial - a check up for the oxygen level inside our body

4. Urine Test - a check up on on our Kidney's functions

I am so excited to have such fruitful programs as above during our coming Blood Donation Campaign! You should not miss this I am very sure!

So, what are you waiting for? The moment you donate your blood, in return you gonna have a fruitful experience and information with the above health programs!

Want to know more about Well Again Healthcare Sdn Bhd, do log on to

www.wellagainhealthcare.com

Be healthy, and stay happily, so to BE WELL AGAIN! :)

2010 HOPE worldwide + UM Blood Bank Blood Donation Campaign

Guess what? Our Blood Donation Campaign for year 2010 is just around the corner! Details as follow:

Date : 24 October 2010

Time : 1:00pm to 4:30pm

Venue : Global Business Park, Level 4, Section 19, Petaling Jaya

(Actual address: Global Business Park, 8, Jalan 19/1, 46300 Petaling Jaya)

Do refer to the attached poster for more info!

Here's a little favor to ask from you who is reading this blog:) Do help us to spread this news to your friends who are keen in this. Despite all this, if you are in good condition to do so, I would encourage you to come! Your action might save a life! But right before that, we have to go through some statements below to ENSURE that we are eligible to donate blood:

1. Healthy today

2. 18 -65 years old

3. Weight 45 kg or more

4. More than 5 hours sleep

5. Breakfast or lunch before donation (within 4 hours)

6. 3 months or more after last blood donation

7. No medical problems (discuss with Medical Officers)

8. Not on any medication (discuss with Medical Officers)

9. Not having menses for the past 3 days

10. Not pregnant/ breast feeding (within the past 6 months)

11. Not a drug abuser

12. Not a homosexual (Men having sex with another man)

13. Do not have multiple sexual partners (more than one partner within 6 months)

14. Do not have sex with prostitutes

15. No tattoos, ear/body piercing or acupuncture within 12 months

16. Not stayed in UK and Europe during 1980 - 1996

That's all for the moment! We shall catch up with more updates regarding to this event then!

Hope to see you there!

By Caesar Teh

14/10/2010, Thursday

Crocs Warehouse Sales! Giving back to the community!

Special thanks to Crocs! For generously giving away more than 50 pairs of shoes for the kids from HOPE worldwide!

Really early in the morning, as early as 7:00am, the kids had all gathered in front of the our Free Clinic in Sentul. They were all very excited!

About 8:00am, we reached Crocs outlet at Ikano Power Centre. Right before the warehouse sales started for the public, the kids have had the privilege to choose they own shoes! Its all fresh, new shoes, tidily displayed at the shelves and racks. The kids were so excited which I can see through their sparkling eyes! The volunteers were there to help them to choose the suitable ones.

This is truly a blast! That Crocs were doing this warehouse sales, at the same time, they had a though to contribute back to the community. The shoes were selling as low as RM 60.00 a pair, talking about original price is RM 100++. For us, this is a greatest deal ever! But for the under privileged children, RM 60.00 for one pair of shoes, it's really impossible to afford. So, Crocs had definitely done a great thing for the kids! As once every kid had chosen their shoes, they were so excited to have a group photo, a precious moment to be captured!

Once again, a BIG Thank to Crocs!

A happy Boy with His brand new Crocs :)

Cheque presentation!

By Caesar Teh

13/10/2010

HOPE worldwide's CEO in Malaysia!

During the last 29 August to 01 September, we were so privileged to have the CEO of HOPE worldwide, Randy Jordan and his wife Jan Jordan all the way from Philadelphia to come to Malaysia to visit us - Persatuan Kebajikan HOPE worldwide Kuala Lumpur!

On the 30 August, Randy and Jan's arrival to our office located at Fahrenheit Plaza (formerly known as KL Plaza). We prepared some snacks to welcome both of them. We bought the finest egg tarts and "Siew Pau" in town which were very impressive for them as believed to be their first time tasting the Malaysian's local snacks! Not forgetting a cup of warm Ipoh White Coffee prepared by our expert Coffee Brewer Katy!

Subsequently, our director Darick to do a presentation with our works and programs throughout these years. Randy was indeed very impressed with our works, as we were within a limited budget, doing unlimited things for the poor and needy. He also shared with us his past experiences in managing the HOPE worldwide in Philadelphia. He's been through a lot of challenges too, especially in managing the financial problems.

Right after that, we've lunch at Madam Kwan's, Pavilion. The next itinerary will be visiting a few beneficial families of HOPE worldwide KL at Sentul. Randy and Jan got a chance to distribute food and communicate with them. That was a really great experience that Randy even posted the picture of him during visiting one of our beneficial family on ICOC Hot News!

On the very next day, greater itinerary! That's be with the kids of HOPE worldwide KL at our Free Clinic in Sentul. 31 August itself is Malaysian's historical independence Day, at the same time, historical moment also happen in HOPE worldwide KL's centre in Sentul! We form a group of 25 children choir, and together, they sang "Heal The World" beautifully with gestures just to warmly welcome both Randy and Jan Jordan! We, the volunteer teachers with the children together, had prepared a BIG card for their remembrance too! On that day, Randy and Jan got a chance to involve in our MY Reading Program, where we sing along some nursery rhymes, and even the story telling session by our awesome volunteer teacher Choong!

Randy and Jan was very moved, not only by the programs we're doing, but by the passion and love towards people, especially from the volunteers!

Randy's visits to HOPE worldwide KL's office, having interaction with both Country Director Mr. Darick Wong and Assistant Country Director, Ms. Katy Lee.

Randy and Jan Jordan, a lovely couple :)

Group photo with the staff of HOPE worldwide Kuala Lumpur at our office!

The historical moment on 31 August 2010: Kids of HOPE worldwide KL, taking picture with Randy and Jan Jordan, together with our always passionate and loving volunteers!

Here, a remembrance for Randy and Jan Jordan! Thank you so much for coming here, just to be with us! We hope to see you guys again!

By Caesar Teh

Introducing MY Reading Program to East Malaysia

Finally, MY Reading Program is prepared to expand it's inspiration to the beautiful East Malaysia! That was a great experience! We've been to both Kota Kinabalu and Kuching within 17 to 19 August 2010 to do some survey on places and at the same time, to introduce the MY Reading Program as well.

When we were in Kota Kinabalu, we went to a school named Sekolah Kebangsaan Likas Kota Kinabalu. There were around 1,000 students, majority of them came from below average family background. We managed to meet a teacher, who is in charge of afternoon session students affair, and she was impressed with the program that we're introducing to her.

Katy, myself and one of the volunteer, Karen, who's helping us to develop the MY Reading Program in Kota Kinabalu

Introduction of the MY Reading Program and presentation of works in HOPE worldwide Malaysia.

A place that we spotted which is very suitable to become the location for MY Reading Program

We manage to meet another group of volunteers who were very interested with our program

Well, on the 19 August, our mission had brought to Kuching, Sarawak. Now, we met Stephen, who is our volunteer that station in Kuching, he brought us to a school located at rural area - SK Melansai at Serian.

The students here were all from the rural community. They did not have much concentration given from parents on their academic development, as their parents were very busy to work and earn to support the living.

We had a meeting with the headmaster and a few teachers, they believe that this program is helpful both the teachers and the students, not only in improving the students' English, most importantly, the teachers too will get to learn something on how to encourage the students to learn and appreciate the language.

The entrance of SK Melansai

Rural area where have fresh air and surrounded by green sceneries

Meeting with headmaster and teachers

Students from primary one

Lukas, one of the students who is having dyslexia, was there yearning for help and guidance. Even he is just being quiet, but we can sense his helplessness. We believe that MY Reading Program shall help him to take a step forward, to overcome this obstacles that stopping him to learn and express himself.

MY Reading Program also will be developed to Johor Bahru and Seremban. Shall update more in this blog! Catch up with us!

For those who were interested to join us as a volunteer facilitator for MY Reading Program, do email your profile to us at caesarteh@hopeww.org.my

Caesar Teh