Distribution Week 3!
We have finally come to the final part of this project. We partnered up with 2 NGOs namely; Street Feeders of KL & Kechara Soup Kitchen.
The Street Feeders of KL (SFOKL) started in 2011 with just a handful of friends. They started off by providing food to at least 100 homeless a month. Over the years, SFOKL expanded greatly in terms of funding as well as volunteers. Now they have about 100-200 volunteers EACH bimonthly feeding.
The Kechara Soup Kitchen however, started in 2006. With the tagline "Hunger Knows No Barriers", Kechara always serves vegetarian food to respect all religions and not discriminate.
We partnered with these two NGOs since they are more experienced in this. They give out food while we give out our Self-Care Kits. As for our distribution group, we decided to split into 2 groups to join each feeding.
I was with the Street Feeders Group, 17th May 2017, 9pm, Taman Budaya.
My group mates started off collecting the care kits from Mr. Vickram at about 9pm plus. We then headed to the meeting point of the Street Feeders which was at the Taman Budaya Roundabout. Over 250 volunteers were present for this feeding. We then split into 4 different groups heading to different routes of feeding. I was headed to the Masjid Negara.
It was a longgg walk from the meet up point. Walking slowly with my injured ankle, I was left behind most of the times. We started distributing the care kits to all those sitting around the Masjid Negara. Since this wasn't the first time volunteering with SFOKL, I wasn't very surprised to see all the homeless unlike a few others from our group who pretty shocked to see so many homeless on the streets.
Prior to distributing, the SFOKL team leads briefed us that we should sit and talk to the homeless after distribution. I then walked to a random group of Monash University students who were talking to a homeless lady named Ayu. This lady from Bali, Indonesia had lost her father, mother, husband and child and ended up on the streets because of the lack of motivation to move on with life.
I also spoke to another man who was robbed off completely when he arrived from JB to KL and had no money to return home or do anything at all. He's been on the streets for the past few days.
Listening to all these stories is when you will realize and appreciate the little things you have in life.
One good thing about the SFOKL is that they not only provide food when they have their feeding, but they also provide basic medical check ups on the spot. The following images show the medical booth.
After about 2 hours, we were done distributing and conversing with the homeless.
This was again, a good experience for me and also for the others who have not done anything like this before.
Thank you Street Feeders.
We have finally come to the final part of this project. We partnered up with 2 NGOs namely; Street Feeders of KL & Kechara Soup Kitchen.
The Street Feeders of KL (SFOKL) started in 2011 with just a handful of friends. They started off by providing food to at least 100 homeless a month. Over the years, SFOKL expanded greatly in terms of funding as well as volunteers. Now they have about 100-200 volunteers EACH bimonthly feeding.
The Kechara Soup Kitchen however, started in 2006. With the tagline "Hunger Knows No Barriers", Kechara always serves vegetarian food to respect all religions and not discriminate.
We partnered with these two NGOs since they are more experienced in this. They give out food while we give out our Self-Care Kits. As for our distribution group, we decided to split into 2 groups to join each feeding.
I was with the Street Feeders Group, 17th May 2017, 9pm, Taman Budaya.
My group mates started off collecting the care kits from Mr. Vickram at about 9pm plus. We then headed to the meeting point of the Street Feeders which was at the Taman Budaya Roundabout. Over 250 volunteers were present for this feeding. We then split into 4 different groups heading to different routes of feeding. I was headed to the Masjid Negara.
It was a longgg walk from the meet up point. Walking slowly with my injured ankle, I was left behind most of the times. We started distributing the care kits to all those sitting around the Masjid Negara. Since this wasn't the first time volunteering with SFOKL, I wasn't very surprised to see all the homeless unlike a few others from our group who pretty shocked to see so many homeless on the streets.
Prior to distributing, the SFOKL team leads briefed us that we should sit and talk to the homeless after distribution. I then walked to a random group of Monash University students who were talking to a homeless lady named Ayu. This lady from Bali, Indonesia had lost her father, mother, husband and child and ended up on the streets because of the lack of motivation to move on with life.
I also spoke to another man who was robbed off completely when he arrived from JB to KL and had no money to return home or do anything at all. He's been on the streets for the past few days.
Listening to all these stories is when you will realize and appreciate the little things you have in life.
One good thing about the SFOKL is that they not only provide food when they have their feeding, but they also provide basic medical check ups on the spot. The following images show the medical booth.
SFOKL also encouraged us to take down contact details of the homeless who are looking for jobs. They will then take their contact and find them something they can do.
This was again, a good experience for me and also for the others who have not done anything like this before.
Thank you Street Feeders.
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