On the 23rd of February 2014, 11 Leos and one probationer from the Leo Club of SMK Assunta visited two orphanage homes and gave out ice-creams to the children. This ice-cream project was organized by Leo Jahan along with the help from Leo Samantha Ong. Two mothers offered help as transport for this project. We gathered at the school at 12.40pm and left for the first home, Praise Emmanuel at 12.55pm.
The journey to Praise Emmanuel from our school took only 10 minutes. We were greeted warmly by the friendly embrace of the children. Some of them remembered a few of the Leos who visited their home in another project before. We donated several stacks of books and bags of clothes to the home. The children were a friendly bunch as they came towards all of us, shaking our hands politely and exchanging information about each other such as names, ages and interests.
The second home we visited is Rumah Ozanam, a boy-girl separated community, so for this project, the boys gathered at the girl’s home instead considering of the bigger surrounding the girl’s home had. This home had a larger number of children of all ages. The girls were really pleasant and sweet, as for the boys, they were rather polite and active. Books were also donated to the home.
Soon afterwards, the group photo was taken outside at the lawn and it was finally time to go home. The Leos had a lot of fun, playing and interacting with the children. We made such great connections with a lot of them and they were really going to be missed. We arrived back at school at 3.45pm. We hung about until our transport arrived. It was an amazing experience and we couldn’t wait for another project similar to this.
Report by,
Leo probate Jean Young.
