CNY 2010 Shootout!

On your left: KLCC CNY Deo....On your right: Mid Valley Lion Dance

We Malaysian extend our help again!

As most of you know, the last day of my donation is on 11th Jan and I'm broke (out of cash) after buying the goods to the children and the school yesterday. My wallet only left less than ~RM 40 equivalent and have to wait for my colleague who is coming on Wednesday to bring me some cash. Getting money out from Malaysia bank is a challenge in Senegal, Africa and there is no such thing as credit card here. I was touched by the heart and persistent fire from my malaysian friends who wish to extend their help the children in the village....the money keeps going in but no way for me to extract it out here. Well finally I called up a friend who is working in Malaysia Embassy and without any hesitation he is willing to borrow me some local currency and will transfer to him later via malaysia local bank.....really appreciate his help very much. Well with the local money I have......let's go for round 2 :-) We donated 25 bags x 50kg = 1250kg today!! Wow great work my fellow friend. With deep appreciation I would like to say thank you on their behalf for your kind heart and generous contribution. I spoke to the English teacher and asked her whether the rice for yesterday is enough for everybody and she said yes...you see how contented they are? Each of the children get 4kg to bring back for their whole family yesterday! Well I tell her, we are going to give you more......and she gave me a great smile. I also understand from her that the village held a praying session yesterday evening to those who help and contribute for this mission.



Well nothing is smooth today and somehow the route from the shop to the school was blocked. I have to walk to the shop and back to the school and only transportation left for the rice is horse. Again 1 Horse Power x 2 trips which cost around RM 16. On your right, you can see the boys help to carry the rice as well.....one bag of rice is 50kg!!



Must give a laud applause to the boys...after few trips the rice were safely placed in the room.



Walk around the school and I went to see the kindergarden class....the boy looks so cute and innocent. Actually they are resting on the table....sorry to disturb you all yeah.



The rice is ready to be distributed. As you can see, the size of the rice is very small + tiny and if in Malaysia, no one will buy it I think. They are very contented and extremely happy to be able to eat rice which is their national food.



Boys waiting for rice collection. Some of the boys called their parents to help carrying the rice. They are using pale to place the rice. Wahh the boy carry two pale...can carry or not?



While waiting for the rice, the children ask me to take photo for them...Somehow they really love to take photo. On your right you can see people start to queue for rice. So far they waited patiently for their turn and very gentle despite the school are full with parents and kids.



How can I resist their request to take photo. You look at them....so happy and so cute. I have to post it to let you see how cute and happy they are. Well Malaysians kid, you should be thrice as happy as they are :-)



Allow me to post this big big.....the children are so cute :-) They really made me smile and I hope they will make U smile too :-)



The young gal is helping to call names and pass the pale to people inside. If you notice, she is carrying a list to make sure no duplication...fair and square. The people inside is helping to put a right amount into the pale.



They wait patiently despite more and more people coming. Well though all of them are not in good condition but they are patient and wait for their turns. This is also a sign that this school practice fairness and do things with integrity.



Hehehhe...the cute boy is waiting for his turn. Thank you for your patience yeah. On your right is the big brother helping his small brother to carry the rice.



Well I have stay long enough and time for me to go back. Millions of thank you to those who donate for this mission. The rice you provided really means a lot to them. On your right is the invoice with a total of FCFA 312 500.



Thank you very much for your contributions. The total collection for today mission is RM 2480.20 ~ FCFA 319 233. Minus the total cost for the rice, there will be a balance of FCFA 6733 ~ RM 51.90. I will donate this to the school and will keep you updated once I received the receipt.

Thank you Malaysians on behalf of the children and school of Thiaroye Guinaw Rail, Senegal Africa

I believe most of you still remember the last blog from me and saw the condition of the children and school at Thiaroye Guinaw Rail a village located near Dakar, Senegal. Many of my friends and family were sympathized of the people in the village especially the children and offered many ideas to help them. Few of my friends stand up and offer them help by collecting donations from their friends and family. I take this opportunity to honor them for their kind heart and willingness to take up such an honorable mission for the children and trust me in person as a representative. For this I would like to specially express my gratitude to Alfred Kuan, Ee Vern, Wei Tyng, Teresa, Margaret and all of you who with a kind heart, donated for this mission. Not to mentioned my Senegalese friend Mr.Sarre and Bieujeul for helping me to co-ordinate for this mission. In my last blog I point out the quote "Sometimes our work feels small and insignificant, but remember a small ripple can gain momentum and build a current that is insurmountable". Within a short period of notice (2 days), we have collected a total of RM 5028.80 from fellow friends in Malaysia. With great honor to those who helped whether small or big amount but with sympathetic and kind heart, I would like to testify your work with photos of them.



The place I shop for the goods mainly rice, oil, soap, milk, sugar and etc. I would like to highlight that the total rice we donated is 1000kg. On my right is my company car taking the goods...thanks Mr.Gueye (my driver). Also I saw them buying only one scoop of tomato from the grocery shop.....imagine the seller use spoon scoop one table spoon and put into small plastic bag and I saw one lady only buy one bag!! Can you imagine how poor they are. We all waste tomato ketchup in McD like nobody business!



Well one car is not enough for the goods and we hired a horse to take for me. Well this is what we call "1 horse power". On your right you can see that it is a continuous loading to the horse...really pity him but he has done a good job.



The goods arrived safely to the school and we should praise the horse for taking more than 600kg stuff. The goods were placed in a room at the school and will arrange for distribution. Few more goods will arrived tomorrow as out of stock.



The children in the classroom. You can see that they are sitting in a limited space with just a normal table and chair. Well kids in Malaysia should be contented and study harder :-)



Another class for small children (kindergarden). They are so cute and look innocent. Can see they are enjoying the class very much. By the way they are using chalk as a pencil and that's why the boy's face got white powder on it.



Year 5 student. On your right is the girl me and my gf supporting.....good to know she is able to go school now :-)



On your left is the boy supported by my best friend. He is an orphanage and good to know he is able to go school as well. On your right you can see how determine the children is seeking for knowledge and a change in the future.



On your right you can see them writing on a small black board with chalk. On your right you can see how happy they are going out from the school. They love to take photograph and all rush to me for a shot :-)



On your left....group of friends and see how happy they are :-) On your right, boys will always be boys so rough....hahahahha. Glad they are happy and welcome my visit.



They are going back home for a short break (12.30-3pm). The school will resume at 3pm and seems their school start from 9am to 5pm....whole long day :-) On your right you can see them lining up



On your left is the older student that will go for secondary school next year. Study hard and hope all of them can go for next level. The guy in white shirt is the mathematics teacher. On your right is photo of Ms. Bijou (NGO), school admin, Mr.Sarre, the headmaster of the school and me :-)



On your right is the photo with the children supported by us and on your right is me with the English teacher. As mentioned over my previous blog, she can speak English pretty well.



Me with the children, the headmaster of the school, teacher and Mr.Sarre



The invoice of the goods we bought for them. The total of the bill is FCA 645 200. I used up all my cash money (FCFA 100 000, Euro 250 and USD 100 - and still owe the shop CFA 60 000). Well I have to wait for my colleague to bring me some cash and they don't receive credit card here. The total collection is RM 5028.80 which is equivalent to Euro 995.80 (1Euro:RM5.05) which is also equal to FCFA 647 271 (1Euro:650FCFA). Highlight of the items are 20bags x 50kgs rice, 600 packets of oil, 360 soaps and few more small items such as sugar, milk, butter, chocolate and bread. This items will be distributed among 300 children and teachers in that school. The children, the village head and people in the village were aware of this effort and the distribution of the items especially rice and oil will remain fair, equal and transparent to all party.



Updates:
Alfred Kuan and Family consist of below contributions. The total will be RM 4010 compare to RM 2880.80 from the list. The balance RM 1129.20 will be used to buy more food like rice since one children only able to get ~3.3kg rice and two bags of oil to bring back home.

Tong Hin Machinary RM 1000
Tai Yong Kong Temple RM 1500
Alfred Kuan & Phyllis Wong RM 500
Victor Kuan RM 10
YC Kuan & Jeniffer Wong RM 500
ST Chia & YL Kuan RM 500

IMPORTANT NOTE: The contributions are from individual people and not related to any company, government body, NGO or organizations.

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