today was the first session my classmates and I had for volunteering at ‘Beyond Social Services’. Beyond Social Services was set up in August 1969 to help the poor in Bukit Ho Swee Community. Subsequently it became a full-fledged social service centre to address the concerns of families and individuals from dissadvantaged low-income backgrounds in 1991. And its services have gone beyond Bukit Ho Swee Community. today a few of us were assigned to clean the toys of the students. at first it wasn’t a very tiring job but after the first hour we were starting to feel exhausted! and everything was so much more tougher to do; cleaning the toys with sterilised water, rinsing them, bringing them out to sun, waiting for them to dry completely, and putting them back to the specific racks. IT WAS EXHAUSTING! there were just so many toys! and we had to be extra careful because recently the ‘Hand, Food, Mouth disease’ was back. It attacks children at the most vulnerable age of below 5 and we were cleaning their toys. But we took extra precautions and made sure we washed our hands squeaky clean after fininshing the washing. Although today was 3hours long I must admit that the job is a pretty tedious one. But while washing and knowing at the back of my head, these kids are far more under-privilege than me, I am very glad that I am able to do a small part in returning my services to society, to the kids, to them. Service activities like these make it worth while.
