M.A.D. CSR Event (Sem 1, 2016)

M.A.D Event (Make A Difference)

SOS

On the 20^th and 21^th of April, Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter (SCSC) organized a CSR event, named, Make A Difference (M.A.D). The objectives of this event are to help the students to release stress and to collect donations for Phyllis Caring home.

To encourage students to reduce stress, we have conducted stress ball tutorial, giving out lollipop and candies and also having a confession board with the title – ‘Before I Die’. The purpose of doing this is to encourage people to pursue their dreams during both their highs and lows. There were also experiential games for students to have a brief experience how handicaps feel and how they go through their daily lives.

During the event day, we had a booth to teach students on how to make a stress ball which would be helpful for them to release their stress. Thankfully, many students were interested and had spent time to participate in making stress balls. Besides, we also gave out some hand-made stress balls and invitation cards to lecturers to invite them to participate in our event. Most of the lecturers appreciated and liked the idea of stress ball.

Apart from stress ball booth, we also had confession board and gave out lollipops on both days. SCSC committee members approached students to draw a ‘Lucky Paper’ from a box around the Sunway University College study area. The paper drawn would decide whether they will get a lollipop or candy. Inspirational quotes were stick together with the lollipop and candy which would help motivate students who are stressed out with studies. It was such a wonderful experience to be able to see the smiles from students when they received candies.

The most attractive part in the event was the confession board. It has successfully attracted many people to visit our booth who had participated to write wishes and confessions on the board. We believe that everyone have a dream they would want to achieve, we hope that students would pursue their dreams with both passion and perseverance.  

Donations to Phyllis Caring Home

Contributing back to the society can display great sense of responsibility and awareness of what is going on in our society. During our SOS event, we also had a donation booth where we would collect both cash donations as well as daily necessities to donate to an old folk’s home in PJ called Phyllis Caring Home. However prior to the event, we have visited the home in order to go through the things that they are lacking. After collecting sufficient amount of items and cash, we have made another round of visitation to Phyllis Caring Home to deliver and assemble the items accordingly.

We have gratefully received great responses from both students and staffs of Sunway University College. At the end of our event, we have successfully raised a total of RM1,360 and daily necessities. The items donated to the home were:

Stand Fan x 2

Rice Cooker x 1

Cutting Board x 1

5 Layer Stoker x 1

Dishwasher x 20

Toilet Cleaner x 3

Laundry Powder x 5

Mosquito Spray x 3

Curry Powder x 3

Eggs x 2 Dozens

Onion x 2 packs

Banana x 1 bunch

Corns x 3

Garlic x 1 pack

Potato x 1 pack

Papaya x 2

Jacob Biscuits x 1

It was such a great and meaningful experience to be able to give back to the society, as the great Mother Teresa once said, “It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving”. We would definitely visit the home again and conduct more CSR Events in the future.

Address: No 5, Jalan Othman,

  46000 Petaling Jaya,

  Selangor, Malaysia.

Contact   : 03-7785 2997

Written by: Seraphina Au Cheow Ling and Lim Ching Mei

Edited by: Ong June Min and Marcus Ong Beng Chye

Visit to Phyllis Caring Home (Sem 1, 2016)

Visit to Phyllis Caring Home

                

               Sunway CPA Australia Student Charter had organized a visit to an old folk’s home named Phyllis Caring Home. This meaningful activity was organized to cheer up the old folks and let them feel loved as well as care from all of us. It was held on 9th of April 2016 (Saturday) from 9am until 3pm at Jalan 12/12 Petaling Jaya.

            Before departing to Phyllis Caring Home on 9^th of April, all SCSC members gathered at Sunway University at 9am and departed at 9.30am. There were 37 members and 12 old folks from Phyllis Caring Home during that day. Upon reaching the old folks’ home, members started their tasks which had been allocated earlier. Some members were assigned to clean up the home and others would then accompany and talk to the old folks. The old folks were very happy as there were so many of us who have visited them and they felt grateful that they can share their stories with us.

                 SCSC members had been busy with the preparations for this event such as planning games that were suitable for the old folks, souvenirs and entertainments to cheer them up. When the entertainments were carried out, the old folks were very excited and curious of what we had prepared for them. Members sang classic songs and played “Snake and Ladder” game with them. Everyone joined the session and the greatest part was that the old folks sang along with the members. Some of the old folks told the members that the songs had brought flashback of their past memories.

                As for the foods, SCSC members decided to cook fried mee hoon, vegetables and fish ball soup for the old folks and also ordered “tau fu fa” for dessert, taking consideration of their health. During lunch time, all the old folks were anticipating the members’ home cooked food and all of them were satisfied with the food. Most of them complimented our chefs, Mudz and Yuen Jing for their great cooking skills. While having lunch together, the old folks continued to share their past stories and chatted with the members happily.

                Time passed by so fast that the visitation had come to an end. We hugged the old folks and took group pictures with them as part of memories. Before that, we gave the souvenirs that we made ourselves which were paper cranes to each old folks.

                In conclusion, this visitation to old folks’ home should continue to be conducted in the future to show more support to Phyllis Caring Home. This event helped to make the old folks happy and to have positive thoughts during their daily lives. “Life still goes on”, this is the reason that keeps each and every old folks live every day.

Address: No 5, Jalan Othman,

    46000 Petaling Jaya,

    Selangor, Malaysia.

Contact: 03-7785 2997

Written by: Wong Siu Mei (Joanne)

Edited by: Ong June Min

SCSC Team Building (Sem 1, 2016)

SCSC Team Building Sem 1 2016

Date: 11^th – 13^th April 2016 (3 days 2 nights)

Venue: Three4nine, Semenyih

Organizing Committee

Project Advisor : William Chang

Organizing Chairperson: Joey Ong Xue Jing

Organizing Secretary : Mahmud Mustafa Kamal

Organizing Treasurer: Joanne Wong

Organizing Logistic: Seraphina Au

Organizing Vice Logistic : Bryan Tan

SCSC organises team building every semester. Every team building has its own theme. In this semester, the theme is “Together”. Why “Together”?

T – Teamwork (All members will learn how to work together as a team after the team building)

O – Organized (Members will be more organized and understand their roles as the committee member of SCSC)

G – Grow (Members will be more willing to work together and learn together by helping each other to grow)

E – Efficiency (Members will learn how to finish task efficiently under time constraint)

T – Tolerance (Members will learn how to tolerate each other, as everyone is from different backgrounds)

H – Happiness (Members will get to experience the happiness of staying together in SCSC)

E – Effective (Members will learn how to use limited resources but provide the best outcome)

R – Respect (Members will get to learn how to respect each other’s idea and background)

Along with all these criteria, overall, the main objective is to bring all the SCSC members together.

There were 33 of SCSC members who have joined in this teambuilding. This 3 days 2 nights event started from the gathering and briefing at VUMBA room at 8am. After that, the ice breaking started at 9am. Throughout the whole ice breaking session, members are able to get to know each other more and also learn about the objectives of each games as well.

After the ice breaking session, here comes the birthday celebration for January, February, and April babies J

After lunch time, the team started their journey to Semenyih!!!

After 1.5 hour ride, the team reached Three4nine homestay, Semenyih by 2pm. After checking in and settled down, the team started to play the first game, “Guess Who am I?” at the basketball court. This game is basically known as “Picture Charade”, it helps to enhance the members’ creativity, speed, organisational and strategic skill.

After Game 1, the team proceeded to the 2^nd game, “The Huntsman”. The objective of this game is to advice the members to be more observant and trust themselves more. Besides that, this game is also a game for the team to find their own rooms for the 2 nights. So, after the room allocation, the team had two hours of resting and shower time.

Dinner started at 7pm at a restaurant nearby.

After dinner time, it was time for Game 3, “Believe it or not?” at 8:30pm. There were four games in this session, which are The Human Chair, Mix and Match, Human Knot and Trust Fall. The Human Chair game was aimed to enhance the members trust, concentrate and respect each other. This game took quite a bit of time as it required all members to sit on each other’s lap in a circle and lay down for 5 seconds. For mix and match game, it’s basically about encouraging the members to learn how to communicate with the team and encourage strategic critical thinking. For the Human Knot, it is basically about teamwork, leadership skill and communication. All members held hands in a big circle with others members and committee then jumbled them up. Then, members are required to entangle the knot until everyone are free and form a big circle again. For the last game, trust fall, is all about trust and teamwork. Every members did a great job in this game. Even though some of them were afraid, they still managed to cope with their fear and trust the others.

The night ended with fun and laughter at 12am. J

The second day began with a morning exercise which are led by some of the members. Due to some members who arrived later than the gathering time, they had to lead the team to have their morning exercise dance and tie up their hair until the end of the day. Hahahaha. Everyone enjoyed themselves in the cute and fun morning exercise.

After a light breakfast, the team building continued with Game 4, “Feel the Society”. This game is basically to let the members feel and understand more on how the disabled people feel. Overall this game trained them to be more understandable, respect and trust. After the meaningful game session, lunch was served.

After lunch time, we proceeded to Game 5, “Let’s get WET”. It’s a water game session!!! All the respective games were fun. Everyone enjoyed themselves in each of the games.

After the fun and tiring water game, they have their rest time, shower time and dinner time. The second dinner of team building was BBQ at home. A joyful dinner time included four pillar heart-to-heart talks as well. Members all bonded well as they get to know about each other better. Chit chat and jokes surrounds the house and everyone got closer to each other just like family members.

After dinner time, the last activity of the day was sharing session. In this session, everyone was required to share with each other about: “Would you rather lose someone/something or forgive just to sustain someone/something? And why?”. With this topic, members shared their highs and lows of their life. It was a heart-to-heart and emotional talk, which makes it the best part of team building, as all members get to know more about each other and bonded everyone better.

On the last day of the teambuilding, there was a souvenir giving session. The souvenir brings out the tagline of SCSC, “Just Different”.  Every members in SCSC are all different, each of them have their own strengths, this is the reason why SCSC need all of us. Without any of us, SCSC isn’t complete. Everyone treat each other like “OHANA”, no one left behind.

In conclusion, this team building was successfully done and achieved the objectives. After this team building, all members got to know more about each other and understand the importance of togetherness. The team building committee members want to thank every members for the cooperation and understanding throughout the 3 days 2 nights team building. J Appreciate.

Written by: Ong Xue Jing (Joey)

Edited by: Ong June Min