Hospis Malaysia Volunteer Introduction Section

Members of the Rotaract Club of Pudu and several interactors under the wing of the Rotary Club of Pudu attended a volunteer introductory session at Hospis Malaysia on Saturday the 19^th of September. The objective of the session was to know of Hospis Malaysia’s role and what palliative care is all about.

The briefing session was done by Dr Ednin Hamzah, the medical director of Hospis Malaysia. Hospis Malaysia is a non-profit organization that provides palliative care to patients diagnosed with terminal illness. According to Dr Ednin, apart from medicine to treat the underlying disease, something must be done to treat the emotional, social and spiritual aspects of suffering from a terminal illness. This is where palliative care comes in to improve patients’ quality of life. By providing palliative care, patients are able to prepare for the end by making decisions as well as receiving support from their own friends and family.

In addition to that, Hospis Malaysia is also running a petition to gather support to establish palliative care units in all hospitals in Malaysia. It is hoped that 10,000 signatures are achieved to send in the petition.

The hospice requires volunteers for events and also for certain patient care activities. To anyone who is interested, kindly contact Hospis Malaysia at 03-9133 3936 or email them at info@hospismalaysia.org for further details.

A Visit to Kidzania with the children of Epharatha Home

The Rotaract Club of Pudu kick started the new Rotary term of RY2014/2015 with it's first community service project of the term.  The activity which was held on the 5th of July 2014 was to bring children from an orphanage to Kidzania.  The main objective this meaningful event is to enlighten the minds of the children with ambitions which are on the outside world. The event was targeted encourage the children to have a goal to reach their ambition.  The event was participated by 29 children from Epharatha Home and 15 volunteers that were made up of members of the Rotaract Club of Pudu and their guest.

The event kick started at 8.30am when the volunteers arrived at Epharatha Home to pick the children up. The children were excited along with the volunteers.  The children were split into groups which were in charged by two volunteers each.

As everyone arrive at Kidzania, they were greeted by the Kidzania staff and registration is taken for each child and volunteer.  Everyone was then escorted into Kidzania.  The children were given some Kidzania money and they were taught to look for a job in Kidzania in order to make more money.  The money can then be used by the children to purchase souvenirs before they leave Kidzania.

Volunteers and children gather before being split all over Kidzania

Children participating in acting theatre

Volunteers and children along with President Daisy from the Rotary Club of Pudu

An experience as a newscaster

Firefighting

Awww.. Rtr Chestal with one of the children

After a tiring "working day" for the children and volunteers, everyone departed Kidzania back to the orphanage.  The children and volunteers both enjoyed themselves as the day ended with happiness and an eye opening experience for the children.

The Rotaract Club of Pudu would like to thank Kidzania for their kind assistance and sponsorship for the children on the meaningful day.  The club would also like to thank all volunteers that have come along with the club members to make this activity a success.

Zoo Negara, here we come!

Animals are the nature's ambassador. Rotaract Club of Pudu are happy to be involved in helping the country's National Zoo, zookeeper in getting the animal's static living place safe and hygienic.

Well, by first impression, we get a lot of jokes where participants ask if we will be scooping up poops and feeding animal, or even picking up tiger milk!

Indeed. They were all true. We did fed the wildlife, and nonetheless, picked up the poops.

We gathered around the vicinity at 8am in the morning on 28 October 2012 and we had a small briefing for safety for each volunteer. From RAC Pudu, we have total of 40 volunteers of Rotaract members from different club including Singapore and Taiwan, and guests.

I'm glad to know we have RAC Penang who are interested to join us, but its too much of a distance too. Perhaps, next time around. Just like how I'd love to join their activities all the way up north at Penang.

The briefing

 All of us are separated in groups and we are given rather different task.

 Some of us are brought to the animal show to help, my group are brought over to the wildlife to clean up their homes, and some were brought to kids section where they are given direct contact to the tamer animals.

President MoMo

Well, truly it is tiring. Gotto learn to appreciate the time the zookeeper spend with the animal in order to keep them healthy for the generation to get an upclose with the wildlife. 

During out breaktime, we took the opportunity to visit around too. Get more photos at Marcus' and credits to Timothy for the pictures uploaded here. 

The volunteer program is very essential for us to understand that all the work behind the scene are not always that beautiful as it appears to be. It takes a lot of effort and heart to keep the Zoo as Zoo you see as a visitor. 

I hope that it gives a good chance for all the volunteers a worthwhile experience in a lifetime. I thank everyone in joining us and also making this one of our successful events in this term. 

Cheers,

HuiJin Liew

Visitation to Jenjarom Old Folks Home.

Hey hey! Recently RAC Pudu together with Rotary Club of Pudu had organised a visitation to Old Folks Home at Jenjarom. For your information, we actually do go there annually.

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Momo, Samantha, Timothy

We always bear in mind to spare some time to go over and visit as this is a way we remind them that there are people who cares for them  and are willing to lend our helping hand.

 We are very fortunate to get sponsors for goodie bags for them. Like pants and shirts, for really practical use.

With sponsors from Rotarians, we manage to provide them food like Dim Sum, Yong Tau Foo and Siew Yoke (Roasted Pork). I heard they loved them! :P

All the happy faces.


p/s that is our lovely Siew Ping Jie. :D

The also have a little singer Lucas to sing for the folks there. 

One thing is always for sure, is we never forget fellowship among ourselves. We headed to Pulau Carey for lunch! 

Missing out some part of the news? Let me know.
Pictures credits to Timothy and PuiKuan.

I guess, it is true that it doesn't matter if whether or not I am physically there, cuz network makes everything happen. Look at me writing this update for you guys now. :D All I did, was just to ask.

Roshan Thiran from Leaderonomics said, "Ask, and you shall receive." 



Cheers,
HuiJin Liew

Jenjarom Visitation

On a beautiful Sunday morning, 14 August 2011, several members from the Rotaract Club of Pudu have visited the Old Folks Home located in Jenjarom which is organized by the Rotary Club of Pudu. Members from the Rotaract Club of Pudu that attended this event were Jitco, Edwin, Kwai Hong and myself, Chestal.

The Rotary Club of Pudu has been very supportive of this home since 1988. Each year, they will pay a visit to this home at least twice. On this particular visit, the Rotary Club of Pudu has donated RM3, 000, a DVD player and a refrigerator with the Rotary logo on it, to the home. Furthermore, the visitors also brought some items to be donated to the home such as toiletries, rice, shirts, etc.  Next, a few speeches were delivered by the caretakers of the home, Mr Chin and Mr Ang; Organizing Chairperson of this event, Rotarian Moksin; President of the Rotary Club of Pudu, Rotarian Steven Oon; lastly from the service director, Rotarian Daisy Chew.  With addition to that, goodie bags were also distributed to the old folks at the home.  We were informed that a new committee has been formed to assist the Home.

Before we gave away the dim sums, roasted pork and Chinese tea to the men from the Old Folks home, we all gathered for a photo taking session. All the occupants at the home enjoyed their day with the Rotarians, rotractors and guests.

 
 

The event ended at about 1pm and we all then adjourned to Carey Island for lunch and fellowship.

Movie Screening for orphans.

On 23rd July 2011, we had our community service project, a screening of Transformers 3 for the orphans. This was a joint project with RAC Subang and RAC Ampang. The venue for this project was held at Golden Screen Cinema, IOI Mall Puchong. The total participants for this project were 108 pax. We, from Rotaract Club of Pudu brought 25 orphans from Rumah Shalom. Among the 19 volunteers included were our members and guests. 

We were responsible to fetch and take good care of the orphans. The time of the movie screening was at 9.30am. So, on the day itself, volunteers of RAC Pudu reached Rumah Shalom at 8.45am. After allocating the kids to the cars driven by us, we depart to our destination. The kids were so excited for the movie and were talking about it in the car. Before we got into the theatre, everyone queued up to collect their free drink and popcorn. The kids were being assigned by our volunteers. The movie starts sharply at 10.00am. The Transformer 3 was screened in 3D, so each child was given a 3D glass. After the movie ended, each Rotaract club brought the kids to different places for lunch. For RAC Pudu, we brought the kids from Rumah Shalom for Mc Donald. During the lunch, all the children were happily talking about the movie. After that, we fetch them back to Rumah Shalom. The children reached home safely, they too were happy. Lastly, they thanked us for a memorable outing.