A personal experience money can't buy ~
As a volunteer who help out at times in Kechara Soup Kitchen since year 2010. My experience with the hunger and homeless, working along with many other volunteers, excites me as I know the cause of feeding our clients are vital for their survival with care and warm. Glad to see many freewill supporters who come and came to help out at Jalan Barat off Jalan Imbi, Bukit Bintang especially on Saturday night rounds.
So far we have about ten routes, where we feed the clients of ours on every Saturday night. Each route have different requirements, for the each group of volunteers to meet up. Each Team Leaders are made of regular volunteers who have learned and know how to equipped themselves and safe guard team members in the sense of taking care of our security and safety. Working as a team. As each route also have special clients with special steps of risk management to be applied on. Interesting.
Volunteers come from different backgrounds, different lifestyles, different exposure and with choice of preferences on why they are there to help to feed our homeless and hunger. Which ever choice they choose, they are there for sure to deliver their services to our homeless and hunger. We take pride in
helping out.
helping out.
Time after time, Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK) had not fail but to deliver. With many Companies and Volunteers help, as they come and go. In a way they had created a good environment for many to learn and to share what real life is all about, for these people who live life along the street. University students, College students, commercial work force from various companies contributed one way or another.
Many big group companies came up to volunteer by sending their employees for not just to be under their Corporate Social Responsibilities Programme, for the year. Many also came up personally with their own pocket by chipping in either manpower, monetary, materials, time, food, services and so forth. Thankful for
having such wonderful people around who came to know about Kechara Soup Kitchen. At times when food wasn't not enough, volunteers seek assistance,
ask around, to help, to manage, to meet up the expected budget in order to provide to the Clients.
having such wonderful people around who came to know about Kechara Soup Kitchen. At times when food wasn't not enough, volunteers seek assistance,
ask around, to help, to manage, to meet up the expected budget in order to provide to the Clients.
Kechara Soup Kitchen are blessed and also managed to give blessing each time back to volunteers who came not by themselves but brought their family members along. Some say, they want their young ones to learn and to understand what this world is all about. Life is a cycle. How we treat our old folks, how our community operates , that is what our younger generation will see and learn. And in return that is how they will treat us back when we grow older in the same way.
Education is not just by reading books, education also is through experiences. Good experiences of such safe and secure environment has been managed by KSK and volunteers along the years. KSK are able to provide learning opportunities to many of us. As a result through such sharing and teamwork, we learn in different ways, as each of us have different capacity of analytical segmentation of our view point.
The environment naturally produce a wider scope of benefit to many in many forms. With the myriad of professionals involved, also provided opportunities for each professional to see how another management style can be applied, within their best know-how. We learn from each other. No one is perfect. We make the best out of it, with improvement each time. We wanted peace,
harmony, happiness, good learning opportunities and to meet the 'CAUSE of feeding the HUNGER and HOMELESS'.
harmony, happiness, good learning opportunities and to meet the 'CAUSE of feeding the HUNGER and HOMELESS'.
Each time, each day always provide me a different experience even though at times we meet regular clients. In Kechara Soup Kitchen (KSK) we call the hunger and homeless as 'CLIENTS' as they are dear to us all. They come from many different religion, many different race, different gender, different age, different backgrounds and with different reasons on why they end up in the street. Before I joined, I have limited knowledge of why and have certain areas
where I do not understand why they reach such stage. Learning through their humble sharing, I began to understand life better and deeper. As you can see, my english is not as good as many. However, I hope my message goes through to readers like you from this blog.
where I do not understand why they reach such stage. Learning through their humble sharing, I began to understand life better and deeper. As you can see, my english is not as good as many. However, I hope my message goes through to readers like you from this blog.
Clients - Living out in the cold, in the sunlight, at times fighting against the rain, with the mosquitoes, living just next door to the rats, humbly sharing their food with the cats and dogs at times and we can even find among them caring for snakes which lost their space of habitat in the city. What more among them at times fighting for food for a fair meal a day. Being sick and at times, going through life in despair. Like any of us, they seek for safe environment even among themselves too.
Friends, recently Kechara Soup Kitchen came up with below information for many who did not know where and how they can donate or would like to join to volunteer or be a freelance NGO. Yet prefer to follow according to the proper channel. Please read further.
Again, may I wish my friends from different parts of the world, different Companies, working as Corporate Compliance Officers, Administrators, holding a Management position, who are Staffs, who is a Philanthropist, members of our community service or who wish to join, to share and want to be a part of this special Kechara Soup Kitchen community, will find this sharing interesting.
As some of you have asked me to provide more or to share more of my personal experiences about Kechara Soup Kitchen before and I was not able to put in more details in my facebook. Here is a short draft to share part of the information where you have asked before. More than this, we will share when we meet.
For those who did not ask for information, please ignore this with an apology. As some may want to volunteer or has special reason to do so, please do not hesitate to contact Kechara Soup Kitchen Committee Members (Dato' Ruby Khong, Ms Julia Tan, Ms Chua Siong Woan, Mr Wong Kwok Wai, Ms Karen Leu,
Mr Victor Phang, Mr Justin Cheah) as may I point out where you can do so with below website information;
Mr Victor Phang, Mr Justin Cheah) as may I point out where you can do so with below website information;
Friends who wish to be a DONOR, please note this shared information is to help the hunger and needy;
We have many different Soup Kitchen in the world, helping people who are less fortunate with their own system of management. Am glad to have these healthy groups, growing like precious mushrooms. At least by taking a step of action, will make a difference.
You can order and deliver to Kechara Soup Kitchen if you wish too.
Your collection of good merits are appreciated. Thank you.
May we have a bless day, peaceful happy day! 
Note: If you enjoyed read and wants to share more of your experiences, please leave a comment in the box. Thank you and with appreciation.
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