Tuesday, February 23, 2010

How we spent our 1st Anniversary

Sunday 21st February 2010

Yes, it was 1 year ago that Fred and I said our "I dos" in front of families and friends.

So how did we spend our Paper Anniversary? We joined Janet, Teresa, Christine and Mervyn to visit and donate some goodies to the San Damiano Home in Kiulu. Teresa's mum, and her friend Vicky also came along.

The home was set up to take in children from poor families and from the rural areas so that these children can attend secondary schools. We were informed by the nuns there that if they did not taken these children in, then there's no way that they could go to secondary schools because they lived too far from the schools (like 7 hours by foot). The home depend on donations from individuals and NGOs as they are not getting government funds to help them run the Home.

Here are some pictures of our visit to share with you:

Janet gives a donation to the Home
Mia and I represented Fred to give a donation to the Home
We joined in the sumazau to the tune of "Tinggi tinggi Gunung Kinabalu" sung by one of the girls of the home

The goodies for the home - rice, dried noodles, biscuits, used clothing, soap etc

A group photo. Thanks to Mervyn for volunteering as the cameraman
The girls had loads of fun playing the game
The boys joined the game too
Mervyn, Vicky and Christine keeping an eye on the kids who were still playing the game

Christine gave out ang pows to the winners of the game

One of the girls of the home. I forgot her name! I think it was Nelly.

The kids shook hands with us as we were about to leave. Fred and Teresa's mum were so tired they had to sit down!

Before leaving, Christine took time to admire the sunflowers.

I love this picture of Christine taking pictures of the sunflowers.

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