House Of Joy.

House Of Joy. It's a house (duh, as said by the name of it), is a non-profit  home that provides shelter and care to children that are less fortunate, neglected, abused, and abandoned. The house have been established since 1st August 1992 by Rev Tang Chee Sing and his wife Lee Ching Mun. Apart from it being a children's home, shelter and care are provided to underprivileged old folks as well.

In a nut shell, House of Joy aims to reach out to these needy people, as well as to cultivate an in-depth worth of change for them. Therefore, love, education, counselling and transformation are thrust among the children and teenagers as so that, they will be nurtured to useful adults and ready to take up life hardships.

So far, interns from China have been to House Of Joy to bring up the children there by educating them as well as being a pillar of support for them emotionally and physically.

So. What's next in store for House Of Joy? Stay tuned to find out!

PS: Roses, Camp..children, oh yes, CHILDREN will be involved :D

Thank You for reading this post!! Here is a little something to treat yourself.
Double Vision Square Dance by Taylor's University Executive Board Team.
Enjoy!!

Rumah Shalom.

The house is located at Puchong, a 20 minutes drive from Talylor's Lakeside University. 

Dating back to 1997, it was set up then to provide shelter for children. The children there came from all walks of life, mainly those who were raised by single mother's and came from broken homes. The children there are as young as 4 years old and the shelter will accommodate them till the age of 19.
Reverend S. Arulandu, or better known as Pastor Arul brought up Rumah Shelter. The intuition that initiated him to start up the shelter was a flashback of the time when he met some children that were mischievous and up to no good, some that were into petty crimes. Most of the people he knew gave up hope on those kids and couldn't be bothered much about the kids.

However. Pastor Arul sees them in a different light. 

He actually talks to them and tries to understand them. He believes that there is something good beneath every single child, it's just that they were brought up in a harsh and different environment, which is the reason why they were brought up and act differently from other kids. Basically, they were just misunderstood by the society and hence, they were not given the opportunity to prove themselves that they are better than what people percepts them to be.

Naturally, Pastor Arul have a passion for children, to educate them regardless of where they came from, so that they can grow up to be better people. So that is how the home was set up and it's already been providing the children care as well as education, to teach them self-worth and to be better citizens.  

Recently, a few of the Project Management team members visited the shelter. Most of the older children there were really friendly and introduce themselves, while the younger ones were quite shy and look timidly at us. We manage to warm things up by talking to them and playing Uno cards. 

Then, we met up with Pastor Arul and chit chat with him about Rumah Shalom while he goes through the Memorandum of Understanding. There is a certain light that ignite in him when he talks about the children and one can see from there how much is his love for them, especially when he talks about how he brings them up. It sure did made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :)

As we were leaving the place and saying bye to the children, I can't help but feel happy that I made someone's day that day just by making them smile and laugh when we played Uno :)

To anybody that is reading this post now, if you have any enquiries, fret not to ask us Project Management team about it.
You can also contact Pastor Arul by 012-2965979.

If you want to drop a visit to the shelter, the address is :No, 1, Jalan Tiong 5,
Bandar Puchong Jaya,
47100 Puchong, Selangor
Malaysia .

Cultural Day

On 2nd of August, the children in PPKKCTM have just experienced different culture and custom of several countries in a day! This day, the children went Kazakhstan, United Kingdom, United Stated of America, Hong Kong and Taiwan without leaving Malaysia, and this day is known as cultural day.

In the afternoon, the international volunteers have display their country related item, such as flag, country’s background, tourist attraction spot and more through presentation form and also display physical goods. When the children visited their station, the volunteers will explained in detail to the children to allow them to understand country beyond Malaysia. They shared their country’s food with the children so that the children can have a taste of it instead of showing them pictures. They also display some of the traditional costume and the miniature of their traditional house.

Through the cultural day, the children in PPKKCTM not only able to expand their geographical knowledge beyond the horizon, but to expose different tradition and culture that displayed by these international volunteers. Not only that, these international volunteers also able to sharpen their presentation and communication skills. Cultural day is definitely a meaningful event that benefits everyone!

The volunteer explained the country details to the children.

The volunteer shows his country flag to the children

Volunteers explained the characteristic of the historical building through post card.

The children "visiting" the country!!

Story Telling Competition

25th July 2009 is the day for the children in PPKKCTM to shine!! This day, these children are prepared to show their talent in front of all the audience because it is story telling competition! The objective of the story telling competition is to build up the confidence for the children by standing in front of the crowd and tell a story. Besides, the children able to sharpen their presentation skills and not to forget their ability to write a story on their own to show their creativity!

For the past few weeks, the international volunteers have put in lots of effort in teaching and assisting the children in English subjects. Throughout the past few weeks, many exercises have been done. From these practices, the children learned new vocabularies and correct grammars and with their utmost creativity, they prepared their own speeches.

After the well preparation and guidance from the international volunteers, it is the time for the children to share their story. Every participant has given out the best of themselves and they received the warm appreciation from the crowd. The winners of story competition have received prizes to serve as the motivation and encouragement. It was a great learning experience for the children, as they learn and grow. The judges, who consist of PPKKCTM’s learning advisors and visitors, were impressed with the learning progression of these children. Quoted from one judge, Mr Morhan “they have improved drastically since the last time I saw them” and the director of PPKKCTM, Mr Cheah also regard TOMORROW as the project that maximize the children’s capability and improvement.

The story competition was a success event, as we witness the children’s development in all area such as personal development and their English command. It was a great pleasure to know that TOMORROW assist the children in these essential areas as we serve back to TOMORROW’s mission of creating “A Colourful TOMORROW for the Children of Today”!

The participant is telling her story.

The audiences are giving their full attention to the participant.

The judges are having hard tine to give marks because all participants is equally good!

Story Telling Invitation

Story telling competition aims to increase the children self-confidence through speaking in front of public, improve their English language and to show their creativity as these stories wrote by the children themselves.

Lets support and vitness the growth of these children!

Day: Saturday
Date: 25th July 2009
Time: 1p.m – 3 p.m
Venue: PPKKCTM

Flow of Event
10.00 a.m Introduction of event by MC
10.10 a.m Story telling session
11.20 a.m Counting of marks by judges
11.30 Winner announcement and award giving ceremony

Judging criteria
1. Creativeness
2. Deliverability
3. Vocal
4. Completeness

TOMORROW 1st Anniversary

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.

TOMORROW 1st Anniversary Invitation

Kindly RSVP your attendance here!

TOMORROW Never Dies

TOMORROW Never Dies!

TOMORROW back in action! Such meaningful event should never ever be stop. From James Bond 007 to Casino Royale, this series has been continuously produced in Hollywood! Similarly, TOMORROW will keep moving on! The flame of the passion from the team will definitely keep the fire burning and shine these children!

After couples of month, I am back here at TOMORROW team again. Yes, again. I was the Director of Sponsorship last year, and the experience accumulated has impacted me a lot. I am inspired, and here I am, together with other teammates who shared the same passion in helping these children and contributing back to the society. We gathered together to make an impact to these future leader of TOMORROW!

We are the agent behind the scene!

Agent 001 Lim Hwee Hwee & Agent 002 Yap Seong Ling
Both agents liaise with international agency and provide them additional training which able to assist them in executing the mission!

Agent 003 Nurul Nadia & Agent 004 Fifi Phang Tze Hui & Agent 005 Maggie Kok
Both agents are to plan various functions and events that international agents need to carry out for the children.

Agent 006 Wong Ching Yee, Michelle
Working at the head quarter, liaising with all agents.

When there are agents who work behind the scene, we couldn’t make it a success if without the other volunteered international agents, who also have the burning passion drive in them to execute this project!

These agents flew all the way from the other side of the Earth, from North, South, East West, everywhere! All the way to Malaysia, to be part of the agents who make an impact for future leaders!

Introducing our agents who are currently on their mission…

Introducing our agents on mission…

From June until August

Joy
Taiwan
20 years old

Gideon
UK
21 years old

Shivan
USA
19 years old

Amy
Hong Kong
20 years old

Emily
Hong Kong
20 years old

Gulchera
Kazakhstan
20 years old

Yung Ta (Ronald)
Taiwan
20 years old

Vladimir
Kazakhstan
20 years old

Sponsors 2009

Gold Sponsor:
Adgress Engineering Sdn. Bhd.

In-Kind Sponsors:
T-Shirt Sponsor

Libertech Sdn. Bhd.

Pouch Sponsor
Memory Lane

Learning Partners 2009

Mr. Richard Thong

Ms. Anne

About TOMORROW

Quote from Malaysia’s Vision 2020:
“… every child born should be brought up in a healthy environment, provided with all necessary protection against diseases, receive proper nurturing, care and affection, receive general and higher education as far as possible, receive appropriate skills in necessary fields, imbued with cultural and human values”.

According to Ministry of Education, Malaysia cited by UNICEF Malaysia, two of the many issues concerning children are listed below:

(a) Low school achievement rates.
(b) Shortage of parental time for child-rearing and care of young children which lead to the lack of quality services for early childhood care and development.

The issues addressed above are issues ordinary children in Malaysia would face. However, these problems are far more significant among orphans who do not receive guidance from their parents.

Yes, we are very concerned with the current facts and feel an urgency to bring changes to the lives of these children. Aren’t you? Let us work together to building a colourful ‘TOMORROW’ for the children of today.


Vision
Developing orphan children into high achieving and self-motivated individuals through the improvement of their academic results, time management and communication skills, and better self-confidence in achieving as much as their peers if not more and be brave in facing the society for a colourful ‘TOMORROW’.


Objectives
•To increase the number of high achievers among orphans through discipline, positive thinking and encouragement.
•To improve the academic results of the orphan children
•To provide equal attention, support, love, and opportunities to these orphan children by treating them like any other children

How we do it
1.International Exchange Program
•Volunteers for TOMORROW are international students from foreign countries with diverse backgrounds. Through TOMORROW, they are provided with intensive AIESEC learning experience.

2.Educational program for orphan children
•We have daily tutorial activities and educational activities such as Educational Adventure Treasure Hunt and Inter Home Academic Competition for different levels of orphan children.

About House of Joy

About AIESEC

About AIESEC
AIESEC is the world's largest student-run organization. Spanning across 107 countries and territories and over 1700 universities worldwide, AIESEC provides an international platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential for them to have a positive impact to the society.

AIESEC encourages young individuals to take an active role in learning. Through developing self-awareness and personal visions, young individuals increases their capacity to achieve personal goals. AIESEC provides opportunities for young people to build a strong network across the globe and to have a holistic view of the world.

AIESEC platforms to develop young individuals and to embrace cultural diversity are made possible through strong support and confidence from partners in various sectors around the globe.

- Over 5,500 International Internships through Global Exchange Program
- More than 470 conferences at international, regional and national level
- Learning Networks throuhg virtual platforms and conferences
- Leadership and team experiences.

For more information, visit AIESEC MALAYSIA

AIESEC in Taylor’s University College

(formerly known as AIESEC in Taylor’s Business School)

Founded in year 2004 with a pro-tem status. In year 2006, AIESEC in Taylor’s University College became the first private institution in Malaysia to be granted a full status Local Committee. Holding true to our promise of “Commitment towards Excellence”, AIESEC in Taylor’s University College emerged as the ‘Most Progressive Local Committee of Year 2007 during AIESEC Malaysia’s Awards Night in October last year. Consequently, AIESEC TUC also obtained the "Best Talent Management Team" and "Best Finance and Administration Team" in the same event in 2008.

For more information, visit

AIESEC TUC

AIESEC TUC Blog

Learning Partners - 2008

Press 2 Print

Villamaria Good Shepherd Kindergarten & Nursery (Theresa Symons)

Dr. Adnan Omar

Germaine Ng Siew Teng

Tay Siok Eian

Sponsors - 2008

Platinum Sponsor:
Libertech Sdn. Bhd.

Silver Sponsors:
Adgress Engineering Sdn. Bhd.
Asia Bolts and Nuts Sdn. Bhd.
Lee Ho Construction & Development Sdn. Bhd.
Solid Milk Industries Sdn. Bhd.

In-Kind Sponsor

Motivational Camp's Venue Sponsor
Berjaya Corporation Bhd.
Berjaya Hills Bhd.

Hair-Cut
Wella Professionals

Stationery
Pilot Pen (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd.
Sasbadi Sdn. Bhd.
Idea Bookstore (SS15)

Snack

Nestlé (Malaysia) Berhad

Opening Ceremony

July 4th is a historical day for AIESEC TUC as it is the birth of our first PboX. It was named Tomorrow which symbolizes the mission and vision it carries; for a better future for the children of today. It represents hope. A hope for every child and a chance for each one of them to develop themselves into self motivated individuals.

It started out with a welcome speech from the emcees Ms. Cecilia Woon and Ms. Julie Kuan. Of course with more speeches from the Provost of Taylor’s University College, Mr. Lim Tou Boon followed by Mr. Andrew Lee the Advisor of AIESEC in TUC as well as Ms. Tan Sook Theng our Local Committee President and of course Ms. Angelina Ha the Organising Committee President.

  

All of us are thrilled and excited that the project we have been working on for months is finally kick starting. It was indeed for a good cause and also a time for us to give back to the society. This project has taught us the values of being sensitive to our surroundings as well as to highlight the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

The interns or what we called them our Angels was present on the memorable evening. Each of them states their mission and goals of joining us to help the children. These young roving youths has promised to give the children as much as possible. However, this project is not only aimed for giving as these youths will also learn from the children in return. At that brief moment, we have silently vowed to give our best to these kids.

The ceremony ended with the bursting of colourful ballons. It is the beginning of a brighter tomorrow; a rainbow of new hope.

Story Telling Competition

20th July 2008

As the saying goes “a picture paints a thousand words”. This post won’t be lengthy. Read the main points and let the pictures and videos tell you some indescribable moments.

Date: 20^th July, Sunday

Rundown:

1-2pm Arrival of guests

2-3pm Story telling by Contestant No. 1- 6

3-330pm Interval-Games

330-4pm Story telling by contestant No. 7-11

4pm Prize presentation

Hey Hey Hey!

Today we get to see the children present. It’s a challenge of guts and creativity.

You’ll be surprise how these kids perform. Although, it was a bit too much of noise and distraction, all of us who attended had fun.

Special thanks to Issac and Cecilia for being the judges.

Also thanks to Ke Vin, Leon, Wai Hong (Issac’s lil bro) and Ramadan for the moral support.

Judges…

EMPTY FORMS!

The competition was so keen that the Judges are not able to put down any marks for the contestants…

For those who didn’t attend, you missed the FUN! But rest assured, we will be having Story Telling Part 2 as well as Global Village on our coming events. Don’t miss out the opportunity. It’s a once in a lifetime experience!

Cooking Day

19th July 2008

We had a very interesting weekend.

On Saturday, 19^th July, we had our very first event for PboX which is Cooking Day. Finally, the day has come for the Angels to show off their culinary skills.

Here’s a brief rundown :

10-11am Arrival of Guests

11-12pm Children begin drawing the dishes

12-1pm Presentation of dishes by the cooks

1pm Bon Apetit!

Cook: Amber

Dish: Baked honey sweet potato dessert and also nian gao wrapped in wanton skin.

According to Amber, nian gao is usually prepared during Chinese New Year as a symbol of prosperity.

Cook: Eric

Dish: Deep fried dumplings and spring rolls (it’s prepacked because Eric can’t cook, good effort though)

According to Eric, during Spring festival, dumplings and spring rolls are one of the main dishes prepared for the celebration.

Cook: Nina

Dish: Apple Pie and Pancakes. She also brought some mini Stroopwaffles and licorice from the Netherlands.

According to Nina, apple pie is sweet with a tinge of cinnamon. Whereas, the pancakes are eaten with pancake syrup.

Cook: Rabbit

Dish: Ma Po Tou Fu and Yangzhou fried rice

According to Rabbit, Ma Po Tou Fu originates from Sichuan Province in China. The tou fu is a little spicy and delicious. The fried rice is yummy with mix vegetables, eggs and shrimps which gives it a fragrant smell.

Karaoke at Neway

2nd July 2008

Today Eu Gin took us to the karaoke. Much alike the ones in Taiwan, and there are even many popular songs that are sung by Taiwan singers. I found something interesting about the cultural differences. As for Nina, since she’s a Dutch girl, in her country there are many karaoke bars. Many people were drunk and they will sing on the stage. That is to say, they will sing before many strangers. Compared with European, Asia people prefer to sing in one small room with friends.

Amber

Haircut service by Wella Professionals

17th July 2008

Six Wella Professionals' representatives come by Pusat Penjagaan Kanak-kanak Cacat Taman Megah to perform haircut services for the children.

 

Regardless of the hot weather, their sweats and efforts eventually brought smiles to the children. We want to thank you for supporting this project.

Thank you, Wella Professionals