Child Literacy Project – Dive into a Book

Child literacy project themed “Dive into a Book” is another community service project organized by Leo Club of INTI International University. It was held on the 19^th November 2011, at Vinashini Home, Kuala Sawah, Negeri Sembilan. Vinashini Home is a home who adopts special kids who are mentally disable or have study difficulties. A total of 30 volunteers were involved in this event.

At 7.30am, all volunteers gathered in front of the Multi-Purpose Hall at INTI-IU. After a short briefing on what aspect we should notice and avoid when handling these special kids, we depart to our destination. All volunteers are divided into 2 groups, tutoring and library group. Tutoring group are the ones who tutor the kids. Library group are responsible to clean and arrange a library for the home.

At 8am, we depart from INTI-IU and reach there approximately at 8.30am. We were great by the friendly owner of the home. The owner and few workers guide the disable children into the activity hall and then our activity started. This is the first time the INTI Leos visited a home which have disable children. Therefore, everyone have no idea how to communicate and get close to them. But after a while, all the tutors manage to mix well with the kids. We prepared simple exercise, colouring, origami and some other activities for the children. All the children manage to participate well in our activity with the guide of the tutors.

As for the library section, the volunteers cleaned the home’s store room and turn it into a library. They move out all the stuff in the store room to another room. Then they sweep and mop the floor and wipe away all dirt and dust. After that, they move the book shelf and arrange the books into the book shelf. Besides, the volunteers also fix the athena onto one of the unused television. They also arrange all the computers, tables and chairs in the library. For the decoration part, the origami and colouring done by the children from the tutoring session were used. After our session with the kids end, all the volunteers helped out to clean the surrounding of the home. We depart for INTI-IU at 3pm once all our activity ends.

This Child Literacy Project is mainly organized to improve the understanding among underprivileged children and mentally disable children. The objective of this event is to increase the awareness about the importance of literacy among students by tutoring orphans. Leos gains new experience through this event because not often we get a chance to visit homes which adopt underprivileged children and mentally disable children. Although it was a tiring experience, however we still had a great time with all the children. Lastly, Leo Club would like to express our gratitude to all volunteers who spent one whole day with us in the home and make this event a successful one. Thank you so much!

Written by,

LEO Catherine Hooi