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20 March 2016 (Sunday) - A meaningful day with Dapur Jalanan Kuala Lumpur

Before this, I never heard about Dapur Jalanan. I am wondering what is this club actually. I started to search all the information about this club and I got the answer. Dapur Jalanan, a volunteer-based soup kitchen service operates every Sunday at Jalan Panggong, in Kuala Lumpur. The program offers free food and drinks to the homeless and marginalized in the city.

We have arrived Dapur Jalanan Kuala Lumpur Activity Centre in the early morning which located at Bangsar. 

As the person in charge told, we need to help to prepare sandwiches and fruit salad for the food distribution activity in the afternoon later. We straight away started to do our preparation right after the briefing session from the person in charge.

This is so meaningful to me as we are preparing the food for the people who need our help. It was feeling so great to spend my time with for awesome activity with all my friends and this is my very first experience to prepare the food for so many people. But I still able to make it done as we together assigned the tasks to everyone and we also followed the guidance from the person in charge as well. 

 

 

Although we are busy preparing with all the food, we did took photos to record down these fantastic moments with each other. 

 


 

We have finished the food preparation earlier than the time we expected since we have distributed the tasks efficiently. We took this chance to get more information about Dapur Jalanan Kuala Lumpur from the person in charge.

Everyone is listening to the person in charge about the story of Dapur Jalanan Kuala Lumpur. I was able to get a clearer picture about this club and more understand about what are the activities under this club after this sharing session. This club is just so amazing as they are doing all the voluntary activities for the benefits of the people who need help. 

We took a small break and have our lunch after the sharing session ended. After that, we moved together to the food distribution location which is located at Jalan Panggong by LRT. We set up the food station before the food distribution activity get started. 

The activity have started by around 5.30pm on that day. Other than us, there are also other volunteers came to join this activity. We distributed the food together with them to the public.

After we have distributed the food to the public, we started to chat with them to know more about them. I have a nice time with them as they are approachable. 

Time passed fast, the whole day activity is going to be end after we cleaned the place with all volunteers together. We took a group photo before we ended our activity to keep it as a memory. 

We said "thank you" to each other as we made this activity successfully on that day.

To me, it was a fantastic day. I learnt how to prepare a large portion of food in groups, how to sacrifice your own time for voluntary activities, how to communicate with the public who some of them came from special backgrounds, and so much things else that I can't describe by using words.

Volunteering helps others, but it can also help me too as I have gained so much precious experiences in this activity. It really feels good to spend our times with voluntary activity as we are always busy with assignments or event meetings. Throughout this one day activity, I realized that, you will know that, thanks to you, some people get warm cares. So whether it is food for the hungry, or even homes for unwanted pets, doing volunteer work means one very important thing: I make a difference in the world today.