Have been working as a volunteer at Bethany Home for 6 weeks in May and June 2011...I have learned a lot, especially in dealing with those special children...Bethany Home is a home for special children of intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, Down Syndrome, hearing and visual impairment and also slow learners.
Here are some of my activities over there:
- All children will go for a morning walk at 8:30am and we, teachers and volunteers will guide them.
- They will be doing morning exercises inside a small hall for 15 minutes after the 15 minutes morning walk.
- At 9:00am, they will be having class as what normal children will do.
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| Class Hours |
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| Work Skill's class |
During the class hours, there are many activities that those children will carry out. For example, 'gotong-royong' (cleaning job), physiotherapy, games, sport and swimming.
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| Physiotherapy for special child |
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| Bocer game, a game that usually played by special group |
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| 'Gotong-Royong' |
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| Games for Children |
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| Games for Children |
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| Even for those who sit on wheel chair.... |
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| Competition between friends !!! faster ~ faster ~~ !!! |
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| Judging the drawing competition for English Week |
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| They are have dancing practices |
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| Teaching them steps of a song for 'Minggu Bahasa Melayu' competition |
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| Performance for 'Minggu Bahasa Melayu' |
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| Price giving ceremony for winners |
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Work shop where art painting, shaping and molding are done. Usually they will produce souveniers and these art works will be sold to public.
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Every day, I will help in kitchen as they do not have enough workers there. I will helped to wash and cut vegetables. Beisdes, i also help to check and clean up the store room there.
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| Store Room |
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| Dry ingredients, beverages, and biscuits are well-arranged in store room |
Kitchen and Trolley that used to send foods to children and volunteers
Sometimes, Bethany Home will get sponsered food from some kind people especially when they are doing open house and we will bring those children to have their lunch at those open house.
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| On the bus to open house for lunch |
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| Those children are enjoying their lunch |
Furthermore, i always help in Cafe MM, a cafe that will make some simple foods for sale and it also serve as a food stall for children to practice how to buy food with money. I will help to prepare foods and also do some baking for sale.
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| Beating the flour for cake ~ |
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| Fresh Muffins that just came out from oven ~~ |
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| Guiding and helping students making Milo ice-stick for sale |
As I becoming volunteer here as a part of my course work, of course i will do something that related to my profession. i have carried out anthropometry measurement for students that have been selected from knowledge sampling. i have measured their height, weight, Body Mass Index (BMI), and skinfold thickness for body fat percentage estimation.
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| Searching for the site for subscapular skinfold measurement. |
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| Searching for the site for Triceps skinfold measurement. |
I have also carried out some measurement of body fat percentage estimation, waist-hip ratio, BMI, and Total Daily Energy Expenditure for some staff and volunteers that were interested in knowing their health condition. Some suitable advises have been given following the measurements.
I also have conducted a small talk about Healthy Eating and Wise Consumer with my partner to all the staff at Bethany Home. We exposed them to the latest Malaysian Food Pyramid, food labelling, and food variety.
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| My talk about food label |
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| Handout given to audience for short notes |
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| Malaysian Food Pyramid 2010 |
There are a lots of activities conducted by Bethany Home for all the children as well as staff and volunteers working there. for example, trip to concerts, handicamp, and outing.
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| I met one of my uni. friend at Shiny Black Gold musical sketch |
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| We attending a choir performed by German Youth Choir with children there. |
I have became a volunteers at Cutie-Cutie Handicamp held by Bethany Home, located at Cameron Highland. In that camp, each of us, the volunteers, is assigned with a kid which we have to take care of the for that three days and two night camp.
I have learne a lot and realized that, those special children are just like us, they need what a normal child needs, that is love and care from us.
Games for children in the camp. they seemed enjoy it very much !!!
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| We went to butterfly farm. Kids are attracted with those strange insects and reptiles. |
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| Say Cheese ~ ~ ~ =) |
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| Our party night !!! all of us are well-dressed and with decorations on our faces and heads. |
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| Yeah !! My group, and our theme for that party night was Doreamon !!! hmm, do we ?? hehe ~ ~ ~ |
The third day, we went for community service and jungle tracking......
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| In the middle way of jungle tracking |
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| Collecting rubbish |
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| Yeah !!! look what we have got for out community service ~ ~ lots of garbage collected from the park. |
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| Have a rest after those tiring community service and jungle tracking. |
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Bethany Home big family for Cutie-cutie Handicamp !!
Last shoop before we leave Cameron Highland !!! |
There are some pictures of Bethany Home Children which i wish to show your all before i end my 'diary' for life at Bethany Home...they are cute, and just like us, they like to have fun, like to do something to attract our attention... and like our CARES <3 <3 <3
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| This boy is very happy and proud with his black glasses. |
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| In their class... they are learning with pictured-cards, which make them can recognize and memorize well. |
