On Sunday, we gathered at UM Sentral at 7am and
departed for Al-Ansaar Learning Center located at Jalan Taman Tasik Tambahan in
Ampang. As we arrived to the location, we then set up the location and prepared
for breakfast. The kids then had their breakfast and the committees used some
spare time to engage with the children and to learn about their stories.
Physical
Activities [9.00-11.00]
After all the kids came and had their breakfast,
we had physical activities where we did penguin dance, gummy bear, and other
physical activities. Then, we also do
musical chairs’s competition for boys and girls separately.
When we were conducting the physical activities
session, our advisor, Madam Wan Sharina came to visit and oversee our program.
She met with Madam Salina and had a small discussion with her.
During physical activities, some of the facilitators
helped the volunteer teachers to arrange the donated clothes inside classroom
based on the size so that it would be easier to be distributed to the students.
Movie
Watching [11.00-12.30]
At around 1pm, we showed a movie entitled Nanny
McPhee for the students to enjoy. However, there are some challenges as some
students could not sit still in their seats and walked around.
Madam Salina gave some talks and advises to the
kids about the importance of moral values (akhlaq), especially about respect
and being kind, responsible and helpful to each other.
Lunch
& Closing Ceremony [12.30-14.30]
At 1pm, the kids had their lunch and some of us
used the opportunities to engage with the kids personally.
As the kids finished eating their lunch and
cakes, we conduct a simple closing ceremony. During the ceremony, winners of
the games were announced and gifts were given to the winners. Besides the gifts
for the winner, each kid was given a package of door-gift as a token of
appreciation from us. At the end of the ceremony, the kids were happy to eat the
cakes that Madam Wan Sharina had bought.
Before the children went back to their own
places, we distributed the donated clothes to them.
Post-Mortem
with Madam Salina & Clean-Up [14.30-16.00]
After all the activities with the kids ended and
the kids went home, we had a short post-mortem with Madam Salina. She praised
us on how independently we conducted the activities and how we cleaned up the
site very well. However, he mentioned that some of our activities are not
parallel to the objective of the Centre which focuses on Islamic Studies. We
took that as an advice so we should be more careful in planning and managing
the agendas and activities and matching them with the community’s focus and
objectives.
In addition, Madam Salina also seek comments and constructive
feedback that we can give for the betterment of the Centre. She also encouraged
us to come again and help the Centre in any way that is convenient for us
After the post-mortem session, we clean up the site
and packed our tools and logistics. Then, the Muslims prayed Zuhur prayer at
Surau Al-Islah. We used the spare time we had to take some rest before the next
activity.
Gotong
Royong in Cleaning Surau Baitul Islah. [16.00-19.00]
At around 4pm we gathered at Surau Baitul Islah
at Kampung Sri Taman Baru Ampang. We were greeted warmly by the Surau
Management (AJK Surau). As we heard the Azan, the muslims then prayed Asar prayer.
After Asar prayer, an uncle from the Surau Management then announce that we
would be having a gotong-royong in cleaning the Surau and invited the nearby
residents to join us, students from University of Malaya.
Together with some of the Kampung residents, we
started cleaning the mosque. We swept and mopped the floor, clean the carpet
with vacuum cleaner, wipe the windows, cleaned the ablution (wudhu) area and
etc. As we do our works, we engaged and
initiated conversations and the discussion with the local people. Some of them
are even UM Alumni.
After we clean the mosque, we ate the dinner
provided by the Surau together with the Kampung residents. We ate Mee Goreng
(Fried Noodle) and Cucur Udang accompined with the red syrup. At the end, we
had a sharing session with Tok Ketua Kampung (Leader of the Village). Tok Ketua
Kampung explained about the history of the village and explained how happy they
are in receiving students to engage with them. They hope that this would be continuous
and more activities like this should be organised to connect university students with the communities. It is one of
memorable activities as the local people accept us happily, warmly, and sincerely.
Before Maghrib, at around 7pm, we tidied up our
cleaning tools and headed back to UM!
