CONTRIBUTING THEIR TIME AND EFFORT

Yesterday I blogged about going to the Vision Home to visit the children there.  Before I went there I cooked the herbal drink in school to bring along.  As it was a Friday, school ended at noon so that the Muslim male teachers and students could go to the mosque to perform their prayers.  Some of my students who saw my colleagues, Azazilah and Asiah helping me to cut the fruits, volunteered to help as well.
I had told them earlier during my lesson with them that when we do charity work, it does not mean that we contribute in the form of money.  Giving of ourselves, our time and effort also counts.
My students helped to clean the pot, to wash the ingredients and also to cut the fruits as well.  In the education line, this is known as incidental learning where we learn from our surroundings and not from a set syllabus.  Hopefully, I have instilled in them some ethical values that would stay with them for the rest of their lives.