My 1986 Volunteer Work
GROWING WITH THE WEDNESDAY YOUTHS IN 1985
- by volunteer Loo Sew Nam
I am very sorry for what I have done. I want to change my job. Can you help me to get a job in a welfare organisation?" asked a girl in tears. The girl was being detained at a police station where I am working as an Investigating Officer. She was under arrest committing an offence of shoplifting at a departmental store. On her request, I called up the Singapore Council of Social Service. But there was no vacancy of such job. It was the day which changed my life when I seized the opportunity to register myself with the council as a volunteer.
Working as a police investigator has given me constant ...
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ESP, mystism, occult and spirituality. I like open space, quietness and privacy. I love children and like to play with them. I am a vegetarian who occasionally take poultry meats and sea foods but not red meats like beef, pork and mutton. I am volunteering with the Singapore Children Society and the Students Care Service. I am also involved as a leader of the Singapore Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist Association and a member of the Association of Research and Enlightenment which is based in USA. To perfect my self, to attain cosmic enlightenment, to propagate world peace, and to give my love, care, service and help to those who need them are ideals in life.
My first day of volunteering at the Bukit Merah Centre of Singapore Children Society on 22 May 85 was indeed a nightmare to me. In that evening, I was shocked to see the youths of the Wednesday Detached Youth Group playing so wildly, yelling with terror and shouting vulgar language. I then puzzled why I was sent to such a ...
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which can be improved by being more creative and interesting, I was also. involved in the training of the youths for the basketball and football tournaments. Though they did not win, their participation gave them a good lesson in co-operation, team spirit and sportsmanship .Perhaps, other sports can be introduced in the future.
Then came an outing for the youths at a beach in Ponggul. Though the place was rather small, unsighty and hot, the youths enjoyed swimming, fishing and barbecuing there.
During the December school holidays, the youths went for a 4-day street camp at the Loyang Besar Government Holiday Bungalow which I arranged. The facilities of a swimming pool, a table ...
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