Busy Weekend

This weekend is a busy weekend. Saturday after work, my friend (one of the volunteer) and I afer having lunch went to home visit to those that apply Tzu Chi Foundation scholarship. The scholarship is for students that come from poor family. Almost hundred over students have applied for the scholarship for the miri area. Though the money given is not much, it can still release some burden of those families that really needed.

Well, we got 4 applicants in our hand. The first house, managed to find it. Second house, though got the address, don't manage to find it. Call the house telephone, the children said that the mother not in. Before that, we had contacted the mother mentioning that we would like to visit their house for the purpose of application, the mother replied that we do not need to come their house...Something fishy about this application.

We manage to find the third house. The applicant and his other siblings live with the aunty (the sister of their father). At first, we thought she is their grandmother (because she is quite old, 70 yrs old). Then, we are told they are her brother's children. Her brother is already 60 years old, and yet the children are very young (the eldest is only in secondary school and the other in primary school). Her brother is working elsewhere and left the children for the sister to take care. The sister still sometime have to work to earn money to support those children. The money given by the brother is not enough to support those children. Sometime do wonder why those people married so late and yet want to have children. Well, if they can afford to support the children, that should be fine. However, they cannot even earn enough to support themselves, and yet they want to have many childs.

The last house, did not manage find it. Search the whole area, and did not find that particular house number. Wonder whether the student given the correct address to us. It took us almost two hours for those 4 applicants. End of Saturday search..... :)

On Sunday morning, three of us (two volunteers and myself) went to send the monthly distribution to those long-term care families. Took sometime to find the house of the newly added one. The family had six children and all depended on the father income of only RM700 only. The family live at the flat house. Finish sending the distribution at around 12pm and decided to find another scholarship applicant at Lutong area there....and again failed to find...:((.

Continue home visit on the afternoon. We were divided to few teams to go to different area. Myself and two volunteers were given two that lived in Lutong area. Managed to find the two applicants' house. However, there's no one at home for the first house. And took some time to find the second house also. Well, finish around 4pm. After that, we had a discussion on the scholarship application while waiting for other teams to come back. We have to compile the list before the school holiday. Finish at around 5pm....End of my Sunday.....