Food Bank in Imbi - Kechara

At first, we could not get a shift from this organisation. After some communication and arrangement, they got us a shift for 12 of us to go. Right after our class, we go straight to the UM Central. We took bus to University LRT Station and took the lrt to KL Sentral. Then,  we changed to monorail and head towards Bukit Bintang Station. From there, we have to walk around 10 minutes to Kechara Food Centre. We walked through the shopping malls and crossed a few roads to reach our destination. It was quite easy to find the shop. We walked in and they direct us to put our belongings inside the volunteer's cupboard. And for hygiene purpose, everyone of us must washed our hands before hand. Then we put on the hand gloves prepared by them. There was three girls working and doing the packing. 

After we took over, we started to packed the biscuits according to their order. There are many types of biscuits. Some we packed it 5 biscuits inside a plastic bag and some 3,4, and 7 biscuits inside a plastic bag. This was packed according to the size and fillings of the biscuits. 

After the biscuits was packed, it was taken to another side to do the sealing process to ensure that the biscuits in good condition until the day they distribute. There was only one person needed to seal the biscuits as there are only one sealing maschine. So, we started to take turns to seal the biscuits. They praised us that we packed the biscuits quickly and nice until they do not have any biscuits to packed anymore. We got to packed more than 600 packets of biscuits that day. They are so nice that they offered us some waters and chocolate bars. 

As there are lots of biscuits to seal, so without wasting our time, we started to clean up and swip the floor. After that, there was a man coming down from the office and they asked us to help him to carry the boxes of waters to another side. So, we queued in a line and started to pass the boxes one by one. The boxes was extremely heavy. I think around 12kg and we get to move more than 20 boxes of waters to another side of the shop. This is where i learned team work instead of moving the boxes one by one. Here, we just have to passed the boxes without walking so it was still not that hard. hehe

After done sealing all the biscuits, we started to take our belongings. Today was a tiring day but it was so fun. It was my first time packing such amount of biscuits and I got to learn teamworks. When we separate evenly our works, it is much more efficient and quick to finish our works. Although i could not pass the biscuit to the homeless myself, we did not face to face, but it was still meaningful as if we did not pack the biscuits today, the homeless would not get those biscuit in the coming distribution. Instead, this was another kind of help. 

JinTing