Beyond Social Services, service module
This activity involved my class, 5X, and our service to Beyond Social Services, an educational childcare center, located at Blk 120 Bukit Merah View. We helped with the cleaning and washing up of, and gardening chores within the center. In this activity, we hoped to provide service to a community which needed it. We aspired to give back what we could to community. We accomplished cleaning up toys that the children at the center used; we washed their toothbrushes and windows, and planted several new seedlings in their garden. We visited the premises every Saturday for a term’s length in the months of March, April and May 2008.
In the process of this activity, it was hard to find every student from our class to be available each week. Therefore, we decided to split the class up into three groups, hence each group would go once every three weeks.
From this activity, I’ve learnt that it is better to give than to receive, and that it is important to give back to the community. I’ve learnt new skills such as the mass washing of toys.
This activity benefitted my class, the Beyond Social Services center and the community. If I were to repeat this activity, I would ask for a greater variety of chores or jobs for us to do.
