YMCA Youth: Visit to Rumah Sayangan Orphanage during Chinese New Year ~ News Chaser

Rumah Sayangan's house.

YMCA youth paid a visit to Rumah Sayangan Orphanage during Chinese New Year. YMCA youth were working as a volunteer in YMCA. They were students from colleges and universities. One of the youth was even from Korea. The youth were constantly visiting orphanage house every month. They were compassionate, caring, willing to share their love and skills to others and loved to serve the community.

During this Chinese New year, they were having a potluck lunch here – Rumah Sayangan Orphanage. Potluck was an event that was especially for a large group where everybody brought various foods to be shared and played games at the same time.

Although it was usually quite acceptable to buy foods for potlucks, but the youth tend to cook as their contribution. It was a great way to share their loves and caring towards the kids. Perhaps they were proud of and enjoy making. The youth prepared various foods such as fried rice, fried mihun, nuggets, French fries, chicken wings, handmade breads and drinks.

The kids were waiting for the youth to start the games.

Once the YMCA youth reached the Rumah, the kids look so excited. They loved visitors. Before everything started, the youth leaders introduced themselves. Then, the event started by having an ice breaking session to know each and everyone in the Rumah.

The youth were demonstrating the steps to make ang pow tang lung.

Then, making ang pow tang lung sessions started. The group was too big, so they were separated into few groups. For the younger kids, they were separated to a group that was learning how to make small decorations using ang pow. For the elder ones, they had to share out the work and cooperate with one another by making the ang pow tang lung.

Of course, before they knew how to make by themselves, the youth were here to demonstrate and guide the kid step by step. After all, everyone was so concentrated on doing their work. Although not every kid was Chinese, there were some Indians too, and yet, they were learning together. This was considered as 1 Malaysia too. The kids were learning some extra skills which they did not learn before.

Esther was feeding the kid, Susan. "Yummy yummy.."

After about an hour, they finished their ang pow tang lung. By that time, it was already lunch hour, some of the youth distributed the foods into plates and some were still playing and communicate with the kids. In only a few short hours, the youth already mixed well with the kids in the Rumah. When the youth wanted to leave, some kids even cried.

When the youth was about to leave, the dean orphanage, Susan told that she hoped that more volunteers and manpower to join hands in helping the children through giving tuition, encouraging them, showing that they were loved and not unwanted, guiding the kids on enhancing their self-confidence and learning skills but not only playing games and having fun.

To those who are interested on doing volunteers, kindly contact the person-in-charge, Charissa Giam at 03-91314339 for further enquiries. The address of Rumah Sayangan is 14-16, Jalan Siput 3, Taman Billion, Cheras, 56000 Kuala Lumpur.