Showing posts with label orphans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orphans. Show all posts

Monday, January 21, 2013

Mama@Work: Picnic with Orphans

Mama gets to do heaps of fun things in relation to her work, besides the boring meetings, report writing, proposal writing etc etc. For example, she took a busload of children to Janda Baik, a village in the hills at the border of Pahang and Selangor. It took us less than two hours of driving to go there. Mama said a group of donors wanted to have a one-on-one session with the kids, treat them to a nice lunch, tea and some exposure to nature. Oh yes, the outdoors is always good for anyone.

As the bus that transported the kids was late, it was almost lunch time by the time the activities began. It's OK, nobody was complaining as everyone had fun. It was a fun and educational outing....not to say very tummy filling as well. Let's see the pictures!!!

The property, as seen from the main house's verandah.
The kids learning about soil and nutrients.
Mucking around at the goats' pen.
Fish pond....my favourite part of the property.
Hey...were they looking for worms or pulling grass?
The goats live here....
And I found a clump of mulberries....yummmm....
Trying to get a group photo wasn't easy but we managed....somehow...
There was a glitch while I was uploading some of the pictures so I couldn't show photographs of the children's lunch, their bathing in the river behind the property and the tea cum fruit eating session after the river activities. Just take my word that all those activities did happen....and at the end of the day, the children didn't want to leave!!!!

Mama arrived home late because there was a massive traffic jam at the tunnel, a truck laden with sand overturned and it was drizzling.... I, of course, had the honour of massaging Mama's legs....tired she said though I don't know how that was possible when she was driving an auto. Oh well....purrr....meow!

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Jongbyuk, Payletuk, Hale!

Mama had iftar away from home again. No, not at an over-priced Ramadan Buffet eatery! She and a few of her fellow Board of Trustees had iftar with the Myanmar refugee community in a suburb called Selayang, about 15-minute drive from home. It was part of the Fast2Feed programme we talked about in the previous entry (the RM30 question). The iftar spread was simple but delicious...and we learned a few Myanmarese words as well. Yeah...food names but that's what felines think of most times anyway.






This is jongbyuk, basically wheat cooked with sugar and garnished with grated coconut. Served as dessert.
This is payletuk, mainly chickpeas and cabbage stirfried with spices and curry leaves.
Hale - a type of rice and vegetable porridge in the bowls on either side of this child.
Nicole's 2-cent: Thanks to donors who helped us provide food the poor and needy. For more information and on how to support the programme, click here. Or just email us. purrrr *giggles*