The Youths as Teachers of the Day in MY Reading Program

16 May 2016, Youths Volunteers Outreach Day at Sentul Centre of HOPE worldwide

As we are celebrating Teacher's Day, we would like to lift up this group of youths, as young as 13 years old, they volunteered their time as Teachers of the Day at our centre, teaching 30 children in MY Reading Program.

Guided by their parents and mentors, the youths reaching out to 30 children who are from the low income families. Beside volunteering in the MY Reading Program, the youths also contributed their time to rearrange the books in our Mini Library.

The Youths had indeed done a great job reaching out to the children in the MY Reading Program through spending quality time learning together. As young as them, they have started to learn the goodness in volunteerism - blessed is to give than to receive.

We also like to thanks the mentors of the youths, who coordinate and arrange this outreach day!

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The Story of 20 Youth Volunteers and their 4-Day Adventure

23 to 26 September 2015, HOPE Volunteer Corps at Ipoh, Gerik, Penang & Kuala Lumpur

The first HOPE Volunteer Corps (HVC) happened in Malaysia with a total of 20 youth & campus volunteers, spent 4 days, traveled a total 826.2 kilometers to 3 cities, a 4-hour boat ride to 2 Orang Asli settlements. It was a memorable adventure, with fulfilling and inspiring communities outreach experiences to both urban poor and rural societies.

The HVC started its journey on 23 September to the beautiful heritage city - Ipoh. There we reached out to the orphans in "Anning Home" where we organized English Reading Program for the children and Boardgames Session for the teenagers.

On 24 September, we set our journey to the further north - Public Jetty of Pulau Banding, where we set our sail in a houseboat, carrying groceries and KFC Meals which are sponsored by KFC & Pizza Hut Malaysia, together with the volunteers from Motorola Solutions (M) Sdn Bhd and a group of medical students, we reached out to two Orang Asli Settlements. Beside giving Free Medication and Groceries to the Orang Asli Community, we also set up solar lights among the settlement area which the lights will absorb the solar heat at day, while the light functions at night to light up the path for the community.

On Day 3, 25 September, we are at another Heritage City - Penang, the home of our HOPE worldwide Free Pediatric Clinic. There the volunteers made a Spring Cleaning to both the Clinic and the Centre of HOPE worldwide Penang. Right after that, led by our professional facilitators, we had a fruitful self-discovery session with a group youths, and as well an awareness workshop about "How to stop bullying at school by being a Buddy instead a Bully" which are so frequently happened among the youth students at school.

The final day, 26 September, we set our journey home - Kuala Lumpur. There the volunteers organized home visit to 15 beneficial families to conduct interviews to know more about the needs and situation of the urban poor families.

During the closing ceremony, each of the volunteer shared about the precious experiences they had gained throughout the 4-day journey, the deepest thoughts that stirred their hearts and mind when they were there, reaching out to the poor and needy. Everyone gets a Certificate as an acknowledgment of their endeavors in the HVC!

Thank you to ALL FELLOW VOLUNTEERS! And we hope to have you guys and even more youths and campus students to be on board with us for the coming HVCs.

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Youth Students inspire the Little Ones in Education Program

12 July 2014, Youth Students volunteer in MY Reading Program at Children Activity Centre

Giving Back could eventually became a habit, if we do it consistently. Just like how this group of Youth Students who have been consistently volunteering our series of Education Programs which including the MY Reading Program & Creative Art Program.

Last Saturday, with more than 20 youth students, together we open up new chapter (new semester) for the MY Reading Program and as well for the Creative Art Program. Together, we reached out to more than 60 underprivileged children.

Before we the Reading Program starts, we had an Ice Breaking Games to have both the volunteers and children who are right-handed to draw their portraits by using their left hands; while for the "left-handed" ones, they need to draw by using their right hands. Once everyone is done with their drawings, we shuffle the drawings and distribute to everyone. Everyone will have a portrait of other people, so each of them need to find the person of the portrait. Once he/she found the person, he/she needs to find out the person's name & hobbies. At the end, we had both the volunteers and children to share whose portrait they had got. After that, both the volunteers and children had great time reading together.

For Creative Art Program, our facilitator and the volunteers together taught the children how to make Paper Toy =)

The program ends by having a Birthday Celebration for one of our young volunteers on that day - Amelia! Amelia turned 7 this year! Indeed, Amelia's parents celebrated her 6 year-old Birthday last year during the Reading Program too: http://bit.ly/1kLaNGo This year, Amelia spent all her Pocket Money to buy presents for each and every child in the Reading Program.

It was a fruitful & memorable day, and thanks to all fellow Youth students for your great heart and love for the children. Hope to see you guys again soon!

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Youths Volunteerism in Education Programs

28 September 2013, Youths Volunteer in Reading Program, Creative Art Program & Computer Program

It was April this year when the Youth volunteers last came to the HOPE worldwide Children Activity Centre. And we are again to have more than 30 volunteers which including the youths and their mentors to involve in several programs - Reading Program, Creative Art Program & Computer Program.

The highlight of this volunteerism experience was, the Computer Program! After the first online research we had done with volunteers from Dow Chemical, we discovered that the students enjoyed themselves very much and they had gained a lot of knowledge, as well as confidence in presentation. So we would like to have the Youths to be the mentors for the students, and the topic we were doing this time was "Country and its Culture & History". The student can first decide the country they would like to do the online research on, and together with the youths, they put all the information and pictures inside the Power Point Presentation.

Great job to all Youth Volunteers and all the best to you studies, especially for those who are sitting for examinations during this year-end. Hope to see you guys again!

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Youths Inspired the Underprivileged Children

30 March 2013, Youth Volunteers in English Reading Program at Children Activity Centre

Thanks to the group of Youths who were here last Saturday, volunteering in English Reading Program. Thanks for the prior arrangement on games and prizes to encourage the kids. You guys did a great job in reaching out to the kids. I believe the kids were inspired by your love and passion. Keep up the spirit!

We want to specially extend our appreciation to Mr. Hazwan & Ms. Lyana for your kind contribution of 30 bags, schooling materials and snacks for the underprivileged kids and the bags were distributed to the kids by the Youth volunteers during the end of the Reading Program.

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