Helping other people is very abstract in its sense. Who do we help? How do we help? When do we help? For how long do we help? These are the questions most of us would be asking.
It was in the year 2005 when Lakeside Montessori School started its outreach program a.k.a. CHARITY. I remember so well that our first recipients were the poor school children on Cibubur. From that year on, together with the help of parents, we have committed in reaching out to the poor children and their families.
August 31, 2010, when we as a community set forth to bring the gifts of LOVE to the children and their families together with teachers and staffs of SDN JEJALAN JAYA 02 TAMBUM, BEKASI and upon our arrival we were welcome warmly by them.
I can’t help but observe our Lakeside Montessori children. I wanted to see their reactions and hear their comments. I was so amazed by what I saw in them when they met the children of that school. I saw humility and piety in them. One of the children in grade 5 in a pitiful voice told me…”their ceilings have holes…what if it rains….the children will get wet when they are studying.” We stayed there for almost 2 hours and most of our children were also fasting. The heat was intolerable….they sweated but no complaints were heard from our children.
Enthusiasm was at its height…inspired despite the heat…the children headed by the Junior High School distributed the gifts. Children of SDN JEJALAN JAYA 02 were so happy to receive them…even though most of them had difficulty carrying 2 gifts…they were very heavy though.
A day of bringing HAPPINESS to these children and their families cannot be replaced by any wealth that this world could offer.
There is no specific Academic Subject to learn….SENSITIVITY towards the need of other people and APPRECIATION of what we have. Inculcating these values can only be done by doing them. Involving our Lakeside Montessori children in this valuable program sets them apart from the rest for they learn by doing and setting an example.
My own thoughts of Charity is giving and sharing what we have and not because we have an EXCESS as such when we help…we don’t just reach out our hand but we need to willingly extend our arm as well.
Supportive Parents who were with us during the outreach program and that's me in their midst
The Lakeside Montessori International School Faculty together with SDN Jejalan Jaya 02 Faculty
The recipient of the outreach program
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