Project Sunshine

Every year, our NC here has an event called Project Sunshine, to visit the less privileged, old folks, or orphanage etc, to help spreading some sunshine to them.

This year, we had it at Thye Hua Kwan @ Eunos, which is a place for the people with some disabilities and needed assistance.

It was done this morning.

Jason and myself went to the CC to help pick up the gifts for the residents.
It's just some colour pencils, and drawing book. Bought from Popular by Ashikin, our constituency management executive.
She is very helpful.

So first thing we did is to put up the banner.
Had to figure out where to hang the banner, in the end, sling over some light feature on 2 of the beams, and Irwan came in time to help out.
It didn't turn out too bad.

Due to sensitivitiness of having the residents in the pictures, most pictures cannot be posted on the web.
The picture below is cropped to show only the faces of the volunteers. Hahaha.

 

The first part is to let them do some sand art.
Most of the residents are happy doing these kind of things apparently.
From what I can see, they really enjoy themselves doing the things.

Actually, they are all very welcoming for us to be there. Most of them when first see us there, walk up to each of us and shake our hands, asking us "How are you?".
Some of them have many questions. Asking where we come from, how many volunteers are there today etc.

Anyway, they played with the sand art, with volunteers around to help them along the way.
Some needed more help than others, but otherwise, everything seemed to be going well.

At the end of the session, some put their art work on a table, and here's a picture of what they have done with the sand art.
Some of the pieces were really nice. :)

Then it was time to give them their lunch.
They really can eat. Hehehe. And they liked the food. Cool.
We gave out the presents while they were about to finish lunch.

Then there was karaoke session for them.
Wow! Some of them really had fun.
Some of them just danced around to the music, very carefree to do what they felt like doing. That's nice.
Some of them keep hogging to the microphone, so that they can sing. They just trying to enjoy what they want to do.
One of them keep bugging me, and then I realised she wanted to sing.
But I cannot understand what song she wanted to sing. :(

After some time, I saw her getting the mic, and the music started play Wonder Girls' "Nobody".

Then you see a group of people prancing around near the karaoke system. Having loads of fun.

The chairman of the home also dropped by.
He said the residents simply loves it when there's karaoke like this. Cool.

It's yet another humble experience.
Many thanks to the many volunteers involved.
Next year, not sure where the sunshine will go to.
I think I will be there again.