Donations to Lee Ah Mooi Home

What a beautiful Sunday! Just got home a couple of hours ago from the visit to Lee Ah Mooi home for the Elders. This trip was really an eye opener for me and I got to share with you my experience at the home...

In case you are still wondering,
in the month of December, I was asking the customers in Facebook on how we should celebrate KAYLENE's 5th birthday. After a few response and a spent some quiet time alone, I discussed with Mr Ling that I really wanna do something very meaningful for KAYLENE's 5th birthday. I told him about a little voice bugging me to do donations and he thought it was a good idea. His immediate response was to write a cheque and viola, mail to any home I was planning to give. But deep down, I knew it was not the direction I was 'told to do'. My little voice urged me to get out of the comfort zone and food donation was the task and not just giving money. Mr Ling heard about my plans and we started to do research on homes and what we could possible do for them. I did a few search and thought that Lee Ah Mooi was the best option for this donation. I wish I could do more and donate more to maybe a couple more homes, but I do have limitations as i do not have a car. Hence I decided to stay focus and stick to one home and thus being able to give more to them.

I called up to the home and Mark, the person in charge told me exactly what to prepare. They want practical food items like ginger, garlic, etc... Seriously, I had no idea how much to prepare. Then I found out that there are approx 115 people staying in the home and all meals are cooked in the home. From that guage, we prepared a rough estimation of 100kg worth of dried goods and 48kg of frozen chicken! PHEW!! Thats quite a bit of things to prepare!! Thank god for my father in law and his contacts, he managed to get really good deals and freshest of the lot and before you know it, we were off to visit the home. Mr Ling did great too! He did a few calls before getting a confirmed delivery to our home for the chicken at 5am! Superb!

When we reach the home, the very nice Mr Mark came to us and showed us the home a little. I also explained to him about the reason behind this food donation and he praised our customers for having so much love and compassion. Wow! KAYLENE customers, you did GREAT!

 (please click on the picture to see your name inside!!)

After speaking to him, I felt even more moved and proud of ourselves as we indeed did contribute to this home. Mark told me (eventually) that Lee Ah Mooi is his mother and told us The Lee Ah Mooi home was set up in the mid 1960s by late Madam Lee Ah Mooi. She sacrificed 2 rooms in her house (Teck Whye kampung) to take in the old folks and looked after them. However, neighbours disliked the idea as the old folks were causing disturbance to them and they were forced to move. Then they found a bungalow at Sembawang but again, the number of accommodation was limited. Finally they moved to Thomson Road, their current location.

I was deeply touched. Period. I knew that what we did for KAYLENE's birthday was right and from this experience, I told myself that in any possible way in future, I must do more of such meaningful events to help these people. Give back to the society in any possible ways. Before we left, Mark did mention that he was very happy to see green beans as he knew what to prepare for the old folks in a couple of days. He also told us that he constantly needs to cook for them. Whee! now we know what to prepare the next round when we visit them again!

Okay now! Go on girlies! show to your friends in facebook! Tell them that you were part of this meaningful event! Find your name and show them!

We thank you ALL for supporting this wonderful cause!

Love