Hi everyone! I am back from Batam! For the past 5 days, I would not say I have experienced hardship. No, no hardship at all, only heartache. As I witness the 94 children at St. Theresa Orphanage eagerly fighting for something that is so basic to all of us, a towel, I felt really upset. A towel. Everyone of us did not even think of anything when we use a towel day in day out, yet it is something so precious to them to have a new and clean towel. Seeing the condition of the toilets, the places they sleep in, their classroom in the day but sleeping area at night, it is truly heart-wrenching. I asked Catherine, didn't God make everybody equal? She has no answer to that as well.
As we are living in Singapore, the well-to-do country, sometimes, we take for granted all we have and constantly demand for better things. Say for example me, I always refuse to use MRT toilet, particularly in City Hall, and I would walk to Raffles Place just to use the toilet as it is more high class and clean. The people over at Batam, do not even have the luxury of enjoying the toilet which is as well-structured at the MRT toilet in Singapore. The toilets over there have no flush, no water to wash your hands after using the toilet.
It sux, it really do, to think that our neighbour, yes, Batam is just Singapore's neighbour. Yet the living condition is totally, extremely, different.
One of the kids over there asked Hilwah, as she shared, if Hilwah has mother and father. Despite the poor living conditions of the Orphanages, I feel that it's not the environment they care about most. It's the love, the parental love, that they really crave for. One of the orphanages I visit, Gracia, it's wealthy, it is huge. Another one, St. Theresa, the living condition is nothing compared to Gracia. But ask yourself, are the kids in there the same? Yes, they are to me. What's living condition to them, when the only love they truly require, which is parental love, is missing?
We often take our parents for granted, asking them for money to buy what we WANT and not what we NEED. And when they don't give us what we want, we sulk. We quarrel with them over the slightest of matters. To think of it, I am a failed daughter. Although the formal point does not sound like me as I hardly ask for money to buy what I want since I don't really want anything, the second point sounds extremely like me. I will learn from them, to always treasure every little thing in life, and not be so demanding and spoilt. I will return to St. Theresa's Orphanage in future, and bring them lots of things, most importantly, bring them my love! I hope the 51 of us made a difference in their life :)
God bless the kids. The wonderful innocent kids, they deserve as much as we do.
Loves,
Sok.
sok
Age:19
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Hi everyone! I am back from Batam! For the past 5 days, I would not say I have experienced hardship. No, no hardship at all, only heartache. As I witness the 94 children at St. Theresa Orphanage eagerly fighting for something that is so basic to all of us, a towel, I felt really upset. A towel. Everyone of us did not even think of anything when we use a towel day in day out, yet it is something so precious to them to have a new and clean towel. Seeing the condition of the toilets, the places they sleep in, their classroom in the day but sleeping area at night, it is truly heart-wrenching. I asked Catherine, didn't God make everybody equal? She has no answer to that as well.
As we are living in Singapore, the well-to-do country, sometimes, we take for granted all we have and constantly demand for better things. Say for example me, I always refuse to use MRT toilet, particularly in City Hall, and I would walk to Raffles Place just to use the toilet as it is more high class and clean. The people over at Batam, do not even have the luxury of enjoying the toilet which is as well-structured at the MRT toilet in Singapore. The toilets over there have no flush, no water to wash your hands after using the toilet.
It sux, it really do, to think that our neighbour, yes, Batam is just Singapore's neighbour. Yet the living condition is totally, extremely, different.
One of the kids over there asked Hilwah, as she shared, if Hilwah has mother and father. Despite the poor living conditions of the Orphanages, I feel that it's not the environment they care about most. It's the love, the parental love, that they really crave for. One of the orphanages I visit, Gracia, it's wealthy, it is huge. Another one, St. Theresa, the living condition is nothing compared to Gracia. But ask yourself, are the kids in there the same? Yes, they are to me. What's living condition to them, when the only love they truly require, which is parental love, is missing?
We often take our parents for granted, asking them for money to buy what we WANT and not what we NEED. And when they don't give us what we want, we sulk. We quarrel with them over the slightest of matters. To think of it, I am a failed daughter. Although the formal point does not sound like me as I hardly ask for money to buy what I want since I don't really want anything, the second point sounds extremely like me. I will learn from them, to always treasure every little thing in life, and not be so demanding and spoilt. I will return to St. Theresa's Orphanage in future, and bring them lots of things, most importantly, bring them my love! I hope the 51 of us made a difference in their life :)
God bless the kids. The wonderful innocent kids, they deserve as much as we do.
Loves,
Sok.