The BEST Wesak Day ever.....

Above:ULC - The Burmese Refugee Feeding Program 2012

On Sat, 5/5/2012 – Wesak Day : Project MADE conducted The ULC Burmese Refugee Feeding Program. This Feeding Program serves 90 children + 7 Single Moms with very young babies. These mommies could not go out to work as they have very young children to take care of.

Check out the pix below for pictorial stories:

Above: A Group of happy children  with their "lunch" for the next few weeks....Grace (left, in black holding a baby) is the "Chief Cook" at the School. We brought 17 items - rice, meehoon, cooking oil, baked beans, sardines, eggs, onion, garlic, potato, carrots, cabbage, long beans, chicken, MILO, salt, cream buns, bread loaves.

Above: Pastor Jonathan (in white) briefing the Families with Mr. See (our esteemed Donor/ Contributor, in stripes) making a speech in English & being translated in Myanmar Language.

Above: The 7 Single Moms & their babes posing with their Food Parcels. It is a great feeling to be able to assist this group of ladies as clearly they do NEED help. Being a foreigner without proper documentation MUST be very difficult.

Above: 2 Single Moms with their  babes in arms. My heart bleeds when I see these ladies. Being alone in a foreign  & hostile country without the support of their  husbands. They are really resilient & strong.

Above: The Mommies waiting patiently to be registered before handing out of the Food Parcels

Above: The "humble" Food Parcel which hopefully can keep hunger at bay for the Families. The Food Parcel consists of rice, wheat flour, meehoon, sugar, salt, oil, sardines, biscuit, bread, kaya spread & MILO. Milk Powder for the babies & sanitary pads for the ladies.

 Project MADE arrived at 11:15am, accompanied by Mr. See Thuan Po – who is the sole Donor / Contributor of the Feeding Program. Mr. See generously contributed Food Parcels as well as milk powder and some nicely packed Power Root Goody Bags to the Mommies & babies, respectively. On top of that, Mr. See contributed food items for the 90 children of the School. These food items were to be used for cooking the children’s lunches for the next  few weeks, until the next visitation.

Above: Preparing food items for purposes of presentation to The School.

Above: Such innocence! I can't help but wonder what the future hold for him...All things GOOD I hope & I pray...

Above: This young boy must be between 10 - 12 years old. He is mentally challenged. I really hope he & his family gets to go to either Australia, USA OR Canada. He future will be much better there than here.......

Above: A little girl trying her best to stay awake amidst all the excitement. A cute yawn, however still escapes.....

Above: Bible Studies in session. Today, they were taught Mark 12:30 - Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shall honor thy parents, Thou shalt no use God's name in vain.....(are these the 10 Commandments??)

Above: The smaller children were put to task at drawing, colouring.....

Above: A young boy who is more matured than his years - he just has to.....

 After the handing over of the goods, Mr. See, Pastor Jonathan, Grace & I had a quick & short meeting. We have been requested to increase the Food Parcels from 7 Families to 10 Families, as well as to include ginger as one of the necessary item. With the consent & agreement from Mr. See – these requests will be met
 

Personally, for Project MADE – we are very happy to have made a difference in this very “misunderstood” community.

To Mr. See Thuan Po – thank you for making a difference – we couldn’t have done it without you!