The Most Meaningful Day in 2009

24th July 2009, Friday. It was a meaningful day for me. This was the first time I became a volunteer. I have decided to become a volunteer for PKK11 Home, Wilayah Kuala Lumpur & Selangor. PKK11 is a home that provides help and home for children who suffer from brain injury, autism, Asperger's syndrome, learning disorder, sensorimotor disorder, slow learning, behavioural problem, down’s syndrome & cerebral palsy. Besides, they also provide treatment for the children, special education etc. PKK11 is led by Dr Teo and helped by few committee members. My colleague, Joo Yee is one of the committee members. She’s the one who introduced me becoming a volunteer to help them raising fund for the children. This is a very meaningful job. I truly respect all of the committee members. Joo Yee told me during the first year they built this home, every month they had to contribute money to the home as their financial was not stable; not much people know about their existence. Besides, the committee themselves had to take care of the children every day as they did not afford to hire any staffs. Now PKK11 is considered financially stable and they have hired some people to take care of the children. They even support 2 orphanage homes.

Every year, PKK11 will organize an annual dinner to raise fund which usually will be held at the end of the year. As for this year, the dinner will be held on 21st November 2009. I hope that I can help them out during the dinner and help them selling the dinner tickets to all my pals..:-) RM50 per ticket!

Besides the annual dinner, PKK11’s volunteers will raise fund through various types of activities such as dinners at temples, concerts, blood donation etc. Every year, they will help out at Susie So’s concert. Susie So is a singer from China. They have agreement with her. They will help out during the concert and PKK11 will entitle commission from the wines, beer etc sales. That’s why I was there to help out at Menara PGRM, Cheras. I helped them selling wines from table to table. Besides that, I brought a child (I think he’s the slow learning child) to the audience seats to raise fund. It was not an easy job as some of the people were just too bad. But cannot be denied that there were people who were very nice and generous to donate $. Thanks to all of them!

The concert was ended at 11++. We were there until 12am. We managed to take pictures with the singer, Susie So and also an invited guest, 2008’s Astro Old Folk’s Singing Competition. It was a bit tiring helping out after work. However, after all, it’s worth as I could help to raise fund for the children.



Susie So, the singer