We Had Visited Pusat Wawasan Children Centre

We, the Youth Advocates of AIDS Awareness and Volunteering Services to the Community had taken a moment to reminisce about the less fortunate children during the recent Raya holidays. We decided to spread some cheer to these less fortunate children. Well, we did not exactly spread the Raya cheer as the majority of the children at the centre that we had visited were made up mainly of Indians and also a handful few Chinese. But still, we did manage to spread some cheer among the children.

Before I began to talk about our wonderful day, allow me to brief you about this particular children centre. As I had mentioned earlier, this place that we had visited to is not an orphanage. It is actually a children centre called Pusat Wawasan Children Centre for children from broken homes. In the term “broken homes”, I meant to say that these children have a family but was abandoned by their parents. Meanwhile, some children here are born out of wedlock but their parents were not responsible enough to take care of their babies. Instead, they just abandoned their very own flesh and blood at this children centre. This is caused by young women and men that have pre-marital sex without considering the consequences.

Pusat Wawasan Children Centre is managed by Puan Tanamah and her family but it involves mainly her only daughter which is Puan Santhia. On any other days, Puan Tanamah helps her husband with his business, a recycling centre. They believe that recycling can help to reduce pollution in this world and thus making this world a better, greener place to live in. They also said that people should be more aware of the environment and start to recycle as it will reduced the need to use more raw materials and there would be lesser rubbish in this world. Puan Tanamah added that the public should be aware that by recycling, they could actually get paid for recycling used items. This is definitely a “win-win” solution to help to reduce pollution in this world. In fact, Puan Tanamah had actually inspired us, all seven of us, to start recycling our used items and not to throw them unnecessarily which will then piled up to become a heap of rubbish.

So, back to the Pusat Wawasan Children Centre. This centre occupies a corner unit of a double-storey house located in Taman Pandan Indah. The address of this house is 1, Jalan Pandan Indah 1/11, Taman Pandan Indah for those who are interested in donating some cash or groceries to the children centre. Besides that, along the main road there is another Pusat Wawasan Centre but this centre caters for the old folks'. We had also donated some groceries such as digestive biscuit, oats and many more health products for the old folks. It is important that the old folks take care of their health especially when their age is catching up with them.

Besides that, we had also donaed some groceries to the children centre which consist of milk powders and diapers as requested by the centre and also other groceries.

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After striding confidently into the Pusat Wawasan Children Centre, we greeted the caretaker of the darling little children, Puan Tangama, whom the children referred to fondly as 'Mother'. To call them 'children' is inaccurate, as there were some of them who were actually older than us! Lets call them 'adolescents'.

Anyway, we spent most of our time there with the preschool children, who were very adorable. We spent a lot of time chatting with the younger residents of Pusat Wawasan, and we found out many things, for example, most of them weren't orphans. Their parents had left them there, telling them that they were returning to collect them.

Things in the centre were very organized. The adolescents actually had a schedule to follow everyday. They may be adolescents from broken homes but education is still a must for them. In fact, they still attend school like any other ordinary kids because they realise that no child should be deprive from getting proper education. They only thing they lack in is LOVE, CONCERN and ATTENTION. Our main objective of having a party and playing games with them was so that we could show some love, concern and attention towards them.

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After spending some time talking to the children and getting to know them, we decided to let the children have some grapes first as they had not eaten their breakfast yet when we arrived. Well, it is always good to eat fruits on an empty stomach. We managed to captured a few photos of these cute little children having their grapes. They just look so adorable that I just want to hug them.

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Well? Aren't they adorable, cute and cuddly? Anyway, it seems like they loved the grapes that we had bought. They loved it so much untill they managed to finish three whole bunch of grapes. And, there was a boy, Kean Hock who loved it so much untill he stuffed a few grapes in his small mouth. But we told him to eat it slowly as there were more to come.