Every year my family and I will have our year end holidays overseas. In 2019, I came across a ad about a trip to Langkawi to visit a Rohingya Refugee school. The trip includes distribution of food packs to the families there. I straightaway jumped at that opportunity.
I told my four children to expect that the trip will be a take a tweak. No swimming pool, no American breakfast but lunch and outings with he Rohingya children from the Baitul Rahmah Rohingya Learning Centre.
We were told that the children in that school were aged 3to 13 years old. Some volunteers from Singapore had already sent some donations to them to repair the school building and with this trip, they plan to launch the Library Corner for the school.
My children packed their used preschool story books and learning toys such as the building blocks, jigsaw puzzle, giant flashcards etc., sealed them in carton boxes to bring it along with us as part of our donation efforts.
During the trip we visited the Rohingya refugees who were staying throughout the island of Langkawi, distribute food packs which consists of 10 kg rice, cooking oil cooking spice, sugar, coffee and tea.
It was a good eye opener for us as a family to have been able to get onto the ground level and mingle with the refugees. my children played wit them , understand their group dynamics and importantly realized that the refugees deserved to be treated with respect and dignity.
I have opened a pathway to my teenagers to see and meet with people who may not be as lucky and as complete as us, ordinary citizens of a state. Thus hopefully they will appreciate what it means to be independent and importantly grow up to be caring adults in their life.
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