Good Samaritan Home @ Klang – Charity visit 26 Oct 2008

Halloween’s the Theme this time round and we sure brought it home to the kids at GSH aka Good Samaritan Home in Klang recently on the 26th Oct 2008. Shereen Tan CE who was elected as our team leader for this round did a splendid job in prepping us for the event. She was assisted by Pooi Fong and KC in her difficult task. In the process of preparation, other team members did some running around to purchasing the necessary props, food & useful gifts (at least 1 for each kid) for the event.

Funds for this round of charity which was managed by our treasurer Sue San and was obtained from the left over balance from our first charity event at Rumah Shalom. So those of you who contributed previously… we’ve managed to help you spread some joy to yet another group of kids at another home. Congrats and thank you to all contributors.

Moving on to the visit details now…. The day started with us reaching the home at approximately 5pm+ to decorate the place to give it a halloween feel. Everyone got down and sweaty in the sweltering heat to decorate the place to our best ability. Balloons were blown and hung up. Fake cob webs were placed on the swing and gates. Spiders and Bats were added to the set and we even had a witch doll compliments from the home to add to decor and spookyness effect.

Once the decoration was speedily put up and completed, we immediatedly started on with some preliminary games to break the ice. May Lee was incharge of the games but this time round she was assisted by Dannie (a regular volunteer at GSH) to control the enthusiastic crowd *haha* After a couple of “Do the Opposite” and “Mathematical” games, the kids were treated to some lovely food prepared mainly by Siew Yin & team. There were Sandwiches from Subway, Homemade Spaghetti, Meat Balls for all to enjoy…. and enjoy they did because at a blink of an eye, the food was all gone.

After dinner, games resumed with fashion show put on by the kids. More presents were given to creative cat walk participants. Pastor Albert, the founder of GSH, was kind enough to kick start the fashion show by giving the kids a demo on how to strut their stuff. Needless to say, it was most hilarious and entertaining. What a good sport! Our very own Shereen also strutted her Superman style pose for all to enjoy.

The home has a total of 28 kids ranging from 3 yrs old to 17+. It must surely be a personal enjoyment and gratification for Pastor Albert who is able to nurse the kids from young to adulthood. This is something we all need to learn. Miracles do happen when there’s compassion. I’m sure all the kids will be forever grateful for their home as well as all the brothers and sisters for life that they have found from the home… and not to mention occassional visitors like ourselves. It was great to be able to spend some time with the kids and to talk to them. They’re all definitely a friendly and chirpy bunch.

I must also add that the older kids manning the DJ Console did a most professional job in providing us with background music. The way the music was toned down and up was so professional, we thought they were hired to do the job! Keep up the good work guys. We loved your dancing skills and demo as well.

We, the Happy Angels, hope you have enjoyed our visit and your brief introduction the what Halloween is all about. We also hope the younger kids will not use the prop spiders to frighten future visitors to the home *haha*

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