As stated earlier in our proposal, the funds raised through the charity food sale will be donated to an orphanage. We are still currently making arrangements with the orphanage administrators. We plan to host a small party for the orphans as well as spending some time with them. We hope to be able to cheer them with little goodies bags. We are also going to buy some groceries such as rice, sugar and other basic necessities using the funds we managed to raise.
Meanwhile, for the AIDS Awareness Campaign we had contacted the Malaysian AIDS Council to assist us in our campaign to ensure that it will be a sucess. Mr. George Nathan, Head of Traning And Resource Centre Division in MAC, had discussed with us about our plans for the campaign. Our plans was to organise an exhibition about AIDS to create an awareness among the students, inviting a speaker to give a talk, handing out pamphlets and leaflets, distributing the RED RIBBON and also selling T-shirts.
We had also discussed these plans with Encik Md. Roslan Osman, the Training & Resource Centre Executive of MAC. He was helping us with the pamphlets and also the leaflets that was to be distributed to the public. We had also been told that MAC will be sending a speaker to talk about AIDS on 25th October for our campaign. We tried to get the speaker, En. Suraain Azhar to come earlier but he could not as he was a lecturer and was not available on other days.
Intially, we had made plans with Durex but there were some complications that we had faced. So, we decided to cancel it. It is good to learn about having a safe sex as it can prevent sexual transmitted disease (STD) from spreading. The rise in this disease are currently increasing at an alarming rate due to lack of awareness about these diseases which among them is AIDS.
The talk by DUREX would definitely benefit the students while creating an awareness among them but it is also indirectly encouraging students to have pre-marital sex. Some students might have misunderstood the purpose of this talk which its objective was to create an awareness. Instead, it would possibly be viewed as an encouragement to have a safe pre-marital sex by wearing a condom. This is a very sensitive issue especially among the Muslims and the Christians who does not encourage pre-marital sex.
As we live in a multi-racial country, it is extremely important to respect the beliefs of the Muslims and the Christians. In this situation, we had to give in and avoid the controversial scene that might had caused if we continued with this talk.
Pn. Lim, the teacher-in-charge of this project had requested for the biodata of En. Suraain and also the content of his slide show to avoid any controversial issue. We were informed that he would be presenting a talk together with a slide show which would take around 1 to 2 hour to finish it. A biodata would be posted here as soon as I get my hands on it.
Currently, we are experiencing some problems with the venue of this talk because the main hall of our school that can accomodate 1, 500 students cannot be used as it is an open hall called the 'SKYLITE'. The skylite is equipped with fans and has several electrical points for the set up of the LCD and the laptop acquired by En Suraain. Unfortunately, it is located at an open area, to be more precise, it is actually located directly in the middle of the school. The date of this talk is on the 25th of October which clashes with the Form 4 year end examinations and the 'gerak-gempur' of the SPM students. This might affect the students' concentration and thus disturbing them. So, we cannot use the skylite now.
Now, together with Pn. Lim, we are making arrangements to have this talk at a different location in the school. Our next best choice would be the 'Bilik Pameran' which is air-conditioned, has electrical points and also has a small stage. This room is definitely more comfortable compared to the skylite but there was only one problem. The room can only fit 300 students. We have around 870 students that had been chosen to attend this talk namely the juniors, Form 1, 2 and also Form 3. We are now in the process of dividing the students into groups of half to try and fit them into the room. We hope that En. Suraain would be agreed to give us another session of his talk.
That was what that had been discussed throughout the entire time since our last post. Things are currently getting on the fast lane now that our senior members had just finished their PMR. But we are now racing against time to get everything done before the Raya holidays as the school had declared the holidays for RAYA would begin on Thursday. This means we only have two more days to sort everything out. We are truly sorry and would like to apologize because we could not follow the plans made earlier in the proposal due to some problems that we had faced such as getting a speaker for the campaign and many others.
We truly regret for any inconvenience caused by us to the Maxis Personnel. We would be constantly updating our blog now. We had also displayed the image given to us by Maxis CyberlinQ at the top right of this blog.
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