The First Project DONE! (Updated)

The First Project is DONE!!!!First of all, we would like to dedicate special thanks to our friends who have been there to support us though it's been raining heavily :-> idraki, idraki's mom, amirin, budin,alia and moon

We manage to give out more than half of the books and clothes that we have. We couldn't finish giving out all clothes since it was raining quite heavily. Even though the weather wasn't that nice, no music played but we still had fun and we are still grateful that our project is done :)

I will write more on what happened today for our first project. As for now, we have to move on to our uni life and prepare for our exam. But I promise to update more on this in a few days time. Hopefully, we will have more supporters after this :) Anyways, these are a few picture that were taken from that day. Look at the happy faces. Lovely!

Update - Sorry for taking some time to update our blog. When we started our booth/stall on that day, we hang all the clothes we had on a little green hut(as seen in the picture)next to the Newtown Neighbourhood Center, some of the passersby were laughing at us. I don't blame them since we look like we were drying our cloth on a public space. But when we started to put free clothes&books sign, few people started to approach us. From their face, I can see that they are still wondering that whether this is a true free sign or just an advertisement that uses big free sign on their posters but put a little word below that say "free second cloth with a first buy". So then we approaced them, saying "Good Day Sir, these are all free and you are free to take anything from here" and they will go like "Oh yeah?" picking up few clothes and books and then go back home with a little smile of satisfaction on their face.

Some other people came and ask us for the reason we are doing this. Sometimes when people ask, we didn't have definite answer to their question. As before we started this project, we are pretty sure that we wanted to help people. But when people are actually asking why we are doing this, it took us sometime to actually give an answer. I guess, we don't really need a reason to help other people, don't we?

Helping other people isn't as hard as we thought. In a very common situation, we frequently see someone donating money as a charity and we had this thought in our head that says "Oh, that's very kind of them. But of course they can do that, they have lots of money and perhaps too much to be kept". At least, I always felt that way. That kind of thought is perhaps wrong. Love The Person NeXT To You will try to prove this wrong, that we don't have to be super rich to help others. As students, we don't have that much money to be donated but we do have a few small change from buying lunch/dinner. So why not giving that few coins that will eventually end up under the couch to the homeless guy who is less fortunate than we are. Or maybe when we have extra food from our lunch, why not putting it into a container and give it to the homeless instead of taking it back home and keeping it until the smell actually annoy you. Sharing is always good, helping is better and guess what, it is not actually hard when you start to do it. Plus, you'll feel good after all.

This is one story that I wanted to share. I remembered one extremely hot day(which reminded us of the weather in our hometown). We came back from Uni and change our cloth. At first we wanted to just rest at home, but since the weather is so nice that day, we decided to go out and have a drink. Random thoughts came and we decided to buy extra drink and give it to the homeless. They might have been as thirsty as we do. So, we buy few cans of coconut drink and took a walk along the street.

We eventually found one homeless guy in front of Franklin. We gave him one drink then we walk further to find another person to give that extra coconut drink. We saw one man sitting on a chair across the street. So we stopped and waited for the green light to cross the street.Before the light has turned green, we saw that man from Franklin running to the man on the chair and gave him that coconut drink. We were shocked for a moment, I mean he's just a homeless but he's willing to share what he has with his friends. Then we started to realize that people are just different in the inside than from the outside. He might have looked dirty and ugly and scary to some people, but deep inside he has the purest heart. He is just a human being like us after all.