The Heavenly Gift is a project by Community at Heart partnering with IOI Mall, where we offer free gift wrapping services, at the same time making known the community needs to the shoppers, encouraging them to join us in making a positive change to our community. It has started on the 3rd of December and will adjourned on the 24th!
This is how the booth looks like a day before we put up the profiles and the bunting at old wing. I was both nervous of how things will turn up yet really excited to see how things will turn out!
Eaglepoint Damansara student team took a time slot and chipped in their efforts as well. They were so diligent and unabashedly introduced the profiles to shoppers and collected over a thousand ringgit for their time slot... and of course photo taking is a must part of the event!
This week, IS THE PURCHASING WEEK! Purchasing week spells out to 3 to 4 days of buying and buying and buying and buying.... you get the idea... Last year, we spent one whole day from about 11am to around 8pm at Jusco and then unload to office and head over to Tesco to continue another round. This year, we spent half day at Tesco for the first day, about 12pm-10pm on day two at Tesco again, about 2pm-9pm on day three, two hours at Jusco on day four and 11am-2pm at Tesco and another couple of hours at Mydin just now. Every single gift pack are bought with thoughts and different from another pack.
These are round one of the uniforms and I called in the teens to help sort it out.
This was day two, round one spending at Tesco.
See how long is the list? hahaha... even the staffs at the shop was staring at how much stuffs we bought. Four trolleys piled full. It was indeed tiring. Me and Chee Wei was in charge of buying for BRO, Agape and Joanna was buying for Shelter Homes, Keith and Tabitha was buying for Rumah Juara and Rumah Shalom. I think we practically cleared all the uniforms at Tesco between the few of us!
Upon reaching office, everything will be sorted to profile numbers, ready to be wrapped and then we will do a final run through the list again to ensure each child's pack is not left out before we sealed it into the big bag according to homes. It is a lot of work and a lot of mixed up that caused us to constantly revisit the list to compare. Friends and family from all walks of lives contributed to make THG a success... from the teens, working adults, parents, CEOs, Businessmen, students and the mothers that cannot be stationed at the booth, came to wrap these gifts for the children at office.
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