AIESEC TUC recently celebrated the 1st anniversary of their own Project Based on Exchange (PBoX), ‘TOMORROW’ on 3rd July 2009 at Lecture Theatre 4, Taylor’s University College . TOMORROW is a child’s rights community based project at a local orphanage, Pusat Penjagaan Kanak-kanak Cacat Taman Megah. TOMORROW aims to develop the orphan children into high achieving and self-motivated individuals. International volunteers from various countries participate in this project by conducting daily tutoring sessions with the children and facilitate in educational activities.
TOMORROW’s 1st anniversary was supported by Ms Angela Pok, Senior Manager of Student Affairs of Taylor’s University College, Mr Cheah Siong Nyin, Trustee of PPKKCTM and Mr Richard Tong, TOMORROW’s learning partner and other 45 stakeholders. This event highlighted various passed event such as story telling competition, motivational camp and other achievements to the new stakeholder, besides recognizing the effort of the team who worked and organized those events. For one year, TOMORROW had done a tremendous job in developing the children both academically and emotionally. Many events were organised to motivate and encourage the children to better individuals. One of the events organised was story telling competition which aims to improve the communication and linguistic skills of the children. Apart from that, inline with our vision to develop children into high achieving individuals, a motivational camp was held at Berjaya Hills Gold and Country Club, Bukit Tinggi. The motivational camp was the main event of TOMORROW 2008 and we are extremely grateful the motivational camp instilled positive characteristics in the children. The children not only experienced a new and better learning environment but also were even more motivated to strive for excellence in their life.
“TOMORROW had definitely made a big impact in the children’s lives, in academic and discipline”. As told by Mr Cheah Siong Nyin, Trustee of PPKKCTM, the children improved wholly especially in their academic performances since TOMORROW started. The children received ample attention and guidance from the international volunteers to produce good grades in school. With the love and passion showered to them by the international volunteers, the children felt more secure and belonged thus allowing them to express and show their true potential openly.
The backbone of the TOMORROW is the international volunteers. The international volunteers’ commitment and dedication towards TOMORROW has ensured the project to be a huge success. The current international volunteers find it extremely rewarding to tutor the children and make changes to their lives. They felt humbled watching the children’s happiness despite the fact the children are alone and parentless. The international volunteers chose to be part on the main project mainly to be in close contact with children to help them improve themselves.
Gulchera from Kazakhstan has been actively involved in charity and fund raising events for children in her country. Her passion for children was the main driver for her to participate in TOMORROW. Other international volunteer like Emily from Hong Kong loves to be surrounded by children due to their contentment and laughter. An aspiring teacher from United Kingdon, Gideon hopes TOMORROW is able to provide him with strong teaching skills before he begins his career as a teacher soon.
We hope with endless support from the team, international volunteers, AIESEC and the public, project TOMORROW will continue to grow to become a bigger and more notable community service project. Together we hope to build “A Colourful TOMORROW for The Children of Today.
