On 26/4/2017, it was my first time joining Pertiwi. Me and another two members, Xiu Jie and Yoke May went to Pertiwi Soup Kitchen around 7.30pm. We drove there as it was our first time so it is more easy for us to look for direction from LRT station to the distribution point and tell the other members after that. It was quick early when we reached there and we are shocked that there are no one there. So we read again their guidelines and instructions, we found that we went to the wrong gather point. So, we drove all the way to the address shown in Facebook which is in Bangsar. Around 20 minutes, we reached Bangsar and we found that there is the food preparation and packing place. And the place we went earlier is the right distribution place, is just we are too early. So since we are there, we started to help out by packing the food into a brown paper bag. The food included buns, packet water and chocolate bar. And it also put into another bag included rice, dishes and sauces. After done packing there, we drove to the distribution point in Medan Tuanku. There are crowded with volunteers from Monash and homeless that are ready to collect the foods.
The distribution point is gated with shelter. When we reached, we started to open up the tables in a line and the food truck at the beginning. The second table is buns collection, third table is chocolate collection, forth table is packet drink and the last table is coffee or syrup serving area. When everything is ready, the homeless started to come in and queue in a line with the children and women at the front and men queue behind the lines. They are so discipline and patient while waiting for their turns. So, my first duty was to serve the homeless coffee. I holded a cup of coffee and served to those elderly who needed it. They are all so grateful that they keep on said thank you to us. I felt so happy as I got to gave a little help. After 15 minutes, Puan Munirah, the person in charge of Pertiwi Soup Kitchen, came to us and ask us to changed another duty. So we went to the forth table to distribute packet drinks. After around 30 minutes, we are done distributing to all the homeless that came today. Without wasting time, we cleaned up the place and keep all the tables back to the truck.
Since we are driving, so we considered to go to the second distribution point at Kota Raya. When we reached there, we started to open all the tables just like at Medan Tuanku in a quick action. The homeless queue in a line and started to collect the foods. This time we distributed buns and chocolate bars. We finished distributing in 30 minutes time too. After that, we greet the organisers there before going off.
This was the first time i felt so sad when distributing food to the homeless because I never see children getting food from us before that in Street Feeders of KL. It was so heartache to see so many poor kids collecting foods with a smiling faces like they does not know what is happening. I do not know what is the story behind the smiles, maybe, in my opinion, they are cheerful and grateful to what they have. Who knows. Hope God blessed them with health and happiness. I always thank that I am lucky enough to grow in a family fills with happiness.
JinTing
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