Hi everyone (:

We just had an event yesterday with the MINDS.
It may be short but yet was a tiring day.

The Success of the event:



We really very impressive with all our volunteers as everyone were active themselves all around the school and trying to understand the condition of the trainees and the volunteers. We thought that all the volunteers will be scare of befriends with these MINDS.

We experienced the task of those MINDS volunteers’ jobs and their difficulties. Although I personally feel that we did not really put in enough afford to help them, however, I think we ready did our best. As we all know that helping other is always not an easy tasks and it is never an easy tasks.

The first thing, we were shock about was the age of the volunteers. Their age was ranging from secondary to 20 plus, almost all of them were teenager. We all were very impress with their spirit. They are willing to spend their weekends bonding together with the MINDS which I say that they are “rare” kinds of teenagers.

On the other hand, we also quite impress by all our volunteers especially, Grace and Tong with really put in their heart and soul, and really wanted to help them. Everyone was trying to participate every activity that was being held and get themselves bond together with them.

After this trip, we had change our ways of thinking and hopefully this help us to experience, learn and improve if we want to create another event like this.


Some personal thoughts and learning from the members:

[" I personally admired the volunteers, because those people have special needs and it is very tough to cater to all of their needs."

["Once you get to know them, you will realise they are just normal humans with feelings."

["I didn't waste my trip coming down here, its an valuable lesson.”

["We learned how to interact with them, how to be at the same level with them and how to have an enjoyable time with them."

["I interact with them and tried to be comfortable. I realised that they are not different from normal people at all. They are just people that needed empathy, means the touch of compassion."

Currently, there are not enough volunteers for MINDS and we seriously hope that some of you would make an effort to go down to one of the MINDS centre and help out . If you are really interested, talk to us. We felt that we should build a long term relationship with them.
We might also organize another same event too in the future.

For more info on how you can help out -> http://www.minds.org.sg/

By: Manpower Dept.