BRINGING CHRISTMAS CHEER

Me, Mrs Sam and Ms Saundari
Aunt Linda presenting a gift to Mrs Sam
Uncle Sam getting a present from my aunt

The children waiting for their turn to get their presents

Waiting impatiently to get their goodie bag

Aunt Linda presenting the gift bag to Li Ping

Jayapradha receiving her gift from my mum

The children waiting for lunch to be served

Mrs Wong helping to serve the children

Parames and the two cakes baked by Jasmine's daughter

Auntie Li Na: Hoon Hyuat, look at the camera over there!

Parames receiving her present from Aunt Linda

Lai Yoong, Kamariah and Nureen

Lai Yoong and members of her family

Kamariah helped to cook lunch for our gathering

The children enjoying their meal

Group photograph

I have been blogging about Lai Yoong and I going around collecting money from people we know and then buying Christmas presents for the children of the Vision Home for Children in Ipoh. Besides having enough money to buy Christmas presents for the children and their caretakers, we had enough money to buy food for lunch. To save money, I asked a favour of Puan Kamariah to help cook the food. My friend's daughter baked two cakes for the children.
We had the gift presentation ceremony cum lunch on Saturday, 19th December. We got Lai Yoong's sister-in-law, her niece and nephew, my mum, aunt, Puan Kamariah and her daughter to come along to help out on that day.
For your information, neither Lai Yoong nor I are Christians, both of us are Taoists. The two of us got together with our friends and relatives to bring some cheer to the needy children of the Home.