community involvement

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

The national students are also required to do a CAS project for 50 hours in a year. For my project I decided to do something for this upcoming Christmas Event. My group project had this idea of distributing parcels to the school’s staff during the school’s Christmas celebration. We’ve calculated the total numbers of staff, and the result is that the school has a total number of 55 staffs. So, I and my group members design the parcels and decided what food and drink are going to be included in the parcel. The money to buy the products we borrow it from one of the member’s parents. At the end we decided to buy the cookies, food and drink from Makro store because it is proven that this store is cheaper than any other store.
We did a 4 hour shopping of the list needed to be included in the parcels. We bought a set of 60 parcels; we decided to make it more than we planned to avoid loss of parcel or if any damage is done to one of the parcels we have a spare. Once a week we gather at Tia’s house at Sentul and did our parcels there. We arrange the design by ourselves, and wrap 60 parcels by ourselves. It was really hard work but we were really enjoyed it because I get the chance to gather with my friends while doing the work. The goal is to finish 60 parcels before December so at the day of the celebration the parcels are ready to be distributed to the staffs. The student council has already added part of their program to spend an hour or so for the parcel distributing, so the whole student body can witness the event.
This event is unique because usually the former student council members just bought the parcels and then distribute it by the order of the school. But this project is volunteered by my group project and it is unique because we design and choose the list of food and did the shopping by ourselves. It is also a unique contribution to the staff as a sign of appreciation and thank for keeping our school run as smoothly as it is. In this experienced, I learn that making parcel is really hard work and now I really appreciate the people who makes parcel to earn money for their life, because it is really hard work and complicated. I also learned that we should appreciate the people around us more because without them we cannot be as we are now. I really appreciate the staff in school because they had helped the students to concentrate more in school by keeping the school clean and organized.