Because I enjoy volunteering a lot, the first and the only club I’ve officially signed up for was Taylor’s Community Service Initiatives Club (CSI

I first helped out CSI to operate a booth for their Lumiere’19 - Spreading the Light event in October 2019. It was an event that aimed to raise money for charitable organisations, with one of them being Generating Opportunities for Learning Disabled (GOLD), which aims to generate opportunities for the learning disabled. It felt really good and warmed my heart knowing that my efforts and time spent there helped those in need.  My drive to help others in need really kicked off after that event.

Since that day, I continuously participated in many voluntary activities every month. These include being a part of Taylor’s Open Days, raising funds for victims of multiple sclerosis, helping out at a childhood development workshop, distributing food at a soup kitchen, planting trees at Taman Botani Perdana, Kuala Lumpur, as well as being involved in a women empowerment event. As a matter of fact, from January 2020 to March 2020, I’ve volunteered in 9 different campaigns in total.

Some activities were relatively simple, such as the one at Pertiwi Soup Kitchen, as it only required me to serve drinks and help with the clean up at the end, while others were more challenging, such as the Animal Awareness Workshop for children where my team, from Taylor’s Community, and I had to plan the whole event ourselves, from designing, planning and executing the activities, and conducting the feedback sessions. One of the major problems we faced was finding transport to the centre, but thankfully, our supportive supervisor was kind enough to fetch us there. I planned to join more in April, however, due to the MCO, I was restricted from doing so.