NYAA Entry - Service

Date: 24th Jan, 2008
Venue: MPFSC
Duration: 1 hour 1700-1800
People involved: Seth, Jiawei and a friend from SAJC

This was going to be the first of the weekly visitations we were to make as a pair to visit brother Paul, a single elderly person living alone in Block 15, Marine Terrace. This time we met immediately after our lessons ended for the day before going to the MPFSC to confirm our visit with the person in-charge, Mdm Yah Yee.

After receiving our go-ahead, we went up to have a look at Brother Paul and see how he was doing. Although we made an uninvited visit, he was very happy to receive us at his door. He seemed happy to talk to us about almost everything under the sun; making jokes and discussing issues such as Suharto's recent hospitalization. All these was proof that he still maintained a healthy and active mind despite living alone for so long at his age. However, his flat was still rather messy and disorganized, making difficult for him to move around easily. Further more, he complained that he was having some problems with his backbone and asked us to see if anything was wrong. Other than a red patch just below his neck and pain felt upon compression, he was alright. After asking about his dinner (it was delivered to him at his doorstep before we came), we decided to take our leave and allow him to rest for the day. We informed him of our next visitation next week before ensuring he closed his door properly to retire and then leave.

Our friend from SAJC was a secondary school classmate who wanted to source for service learning opportunities working with children, thus he decided to approach the MPFSC through us. As such, after a brief discussion with Mdm Yah Yee, he has decided to consider doing a project with the MPFSC in the near future. This has allowed the center to have more volunteers to work with, of which we are more than happy to help liaise from now on.