On 16 April 2011, we visited two welfare homes in Kajang, i.e. Thousands of Love Care Centre (Pusat Jagaan Beribuan Kasih) which is located at No. 3, Lot 1547, Belakang Taman Bangi, Jln Reko, 43000 Kajang and Home For Special People Cheras at No. 35, Jln Rakan 11, Taman Rakan Cheras, 43000 Kajang.
Our visit to Thousands of Love Care Centre was in response to an SMS appealing for financial aid from the caretaker, Ms. Kavitha.
The centre takes care of 38 inmates, consists of 22 children and 16 senior citizens. Its financilal resources rely solely from public support. The premise of the centre is rented at RM500 per month.
We brought them some sundry provisions (rice, cooking oil, beehoon, vico, biscuits, oats, nestum cereal, eggs, onions, instant noodles, etc) and donated RM500.
The home has 14 children with various disabilities, such as down syndrome, asperger syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, spastic etc.
Mr. Ten, one of the committee gave us a briefing about the Home. I was quite impressed that they keep a detailed record of all their children, such as date of birth, place of birth, their characteristics and condition of their illnesses , their favorite food and favorite game/toys and what they dislike etc. So far I have yet to see any of the special children homes we visited did that (perhaps other homes do that too but didn't put up the complete children profile for public viewing)
They also draw up a time table for the children's daily activities,
6:00am - 7:00am Wake up & shower
7:15am - 8:15am Breakfast followed by exercise
9:00am - 10:00am Tea Break & rest
10:00am - 12:00pm Study, writing, coloring book, handicraft learning, playing & puzzle
12:00am - 1:00pm Lunch time
1:00pm - 2:00pm Study, writing, coloring book, handicraft learning, playing & puzzle
2:00pm - 3:00pm Music time/playing toys/games
3:00pm - 3:30pm Tea Break
3:30pm - 4:30pm TV time
4:30pm - 5:30pm Shower & cleanup
5:30pm - 7:00pm Dinner preparation followed by dinner
7:00pm - 8:30pm Free time
8:30pm - 6:00am Sleep
The home spent about RM12,000 monthly, which is solely funded by public donation.
The kids love visitors, but some of them are camera-shy
We donated RM500 and gave them some sundry provisions (cooking oil, rice, vico, biscuits, beehoon etc). Of course, as usual, we took a group photograph together.
