My first project with UP was 2 years ago. You can read here.
If any of you are my friends or follows me on Twitter, you all will be hearing me talking about this volunteer project. The project name is actually Project PACSA. PACSA stands for Paint and Create Study Area.
The objectives of this project is that we want to help these low income families as they do not have the financial power to create a place for their children to study. For example, do not have proper study table or not enough lighting.
So we decided to lend a hand to them. I am really glad that I have this opportunities to be part of this meaningful project though I feel that my role is actually nothing compared to my other friends. (I am the Social Media guy for Ultimate Projects.)
Anyway, there is a lot of planning involved like going around asking for sponsorship and volunteers. Initially, the number of volunteers who signed up were very poor until we created an event page for it and boom! We got 150plus volunteers and it was so much that we do not have enough beneficiaries and we have to keep looking for more!
On the actual day, it was really unbelievable that so many of the volunteers turned up that day!
Though there was some hipcups but was glad that everything went well after that. The team members of UP reached Ang Mo Kio at around 8am so that we can prepare the furniture, paints and all the other items for the project.
AMK 3G Centre which was our meeting place before the event starts!
And this is Zhao Liang who is giving out instructions to the volounteers
Went around to took pictures of the volunteers as they are divided to individual groups. Two of my army friends came and support the event! Even shocked that one of my company platoon sergeant also attended!
All set and ready to deliver paints and brush for the units that require painting.
Some pictures that I took
And this is a group photo with Jeaneatte group when Ultimate Projects team passed by to the unit.
Most of the units were done around 4pm except for one unit which was a special case, there were 20plus volunteers for this unit but we were not able to finish cleaning the house as his house got hell lot of stuff. So in the end we had to call for more help and it only ended at about 9plus.
These was only the items from his living room.
After the clearing, we also did painting for his living room.
I didn't manage to take the picture of the unit before the cleaning start but heard from my friends that it was very serious and left them dumbfounded due to the owner enjoy keeping lots of
Thanks to this project, I get to meet different kind of people from different background. It's an all new experience for me and it also allow me to learn a few new things. Planning this event is never easy, going for house visits and looking for beneficiaries are not easy too. I am really very fortunate to be part of this event! Really!
Also, this event will not be a success without the help of our sponsors and volunteers. I would really like to thank all the volunteers who came down that day and helped us! It's really very nice of you and I hope that day is a meaninglyful event for you guys!