I took a picture from the main entrance of the place. It is called Pusat Aktiviti Kanak-Kanak Chow Kit. Again, we are not allowed to take pictures of the children in PAKK and I avoid also taking pictures of the centre as I do not want to suddenly be in trouble in case if I accidentally publish any sensitive pictures. Just being cautious here
This centre was previously run by Yayasan Salam but effective 1st March 2011 they are officially out from Yayasan Nur Salam and created their own foundation registered Yayasan Chow Kit. There are 3 centres altogether. All 3 is under different management/coordinator. Pusat Aktiviti Kanak-Kanak (PAKK) receives children aged 5-12 years old. Primary school age. Rumah Baitul Amal is for babies upto 4 years and another activity centre for teenager 13 and above called Krash Pad.
Our Charity Sale will be for PAKK. The first impression of PAKK.. very well maintained, neat and tidy, impressively almost perfect and comfy. The 1st floor of PAKK is the 'Play and Learn' area - sponsored by EMKAY, a pantry and the management and Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat officer's workplace.
En. Hasrul Hasli informed us that this centre has so far accepted 391 children, 21 of them are staying premanent in the hostel on level 2 while the rest comes over to the centre for their daily activity. Some of them have no proper documentation so they learn in the centre which received educators and voulenteers from the public. A few of them who stays there goes to normal primary school and are fetch to and fro by the the PAKK tranportation. Inmates stays there without their parents and parents are only allowed to visit them with supervision. Some of the children has court case going on thus visitors are not allowed to publish their pictures or their details for safety purposes.
JKM paid the monthly electricity and water bills only for level 1. For level 2 (Hostel) and Level 3 (Learning centre, classes), PAKK will have to pay their own. The reason is because, JKM only pays expenses that directly related to them, in this case, level 1 place the office of JKM officers.
Lunch is provided for the 21 children living in the centre, while dinner will be prepared for all. (living in as well as those who came daily) 21 children who lived in the centre are monitored 24 hours and they have a security guard (lady) in charge @ the entrance which is also kept locked 24 hours. Their lunch are sponsored by Yayasan Zikay everyday while dinner is sometimes sponsored by some individual but at times, PAKK will have to use their petty cash money when there are not sponsorship from individual or companies. To anyone who wish to sponsor dinner/lunch or anything, you will first have to get in touch with En. Hasrul Hasli and arrange with his team. Asked, how much do they need for dinner everyday, En. Hasrul hasli informed us that they need RM300.00 daily.
One of the most needed things in PAKK is medicine such as fever medicine for children, cough mixture, cool fever and things like soap, detergent, shampoo, foods like biscuits, sugar, tea and so on. They are not allowed to cook so no gas stove in the centre. I suppose, an induction cooker wil be useful but then again that will be something too luxurious. They have a microwave on the 1st floor i think.
There are 7 caretaker who works on shift everyday and in charge of all 391 (maximum) children during the day and 21 at night.
We were then taken to the 2nd floor of PAKK which is the hostel and the activity area of PAKK. We were greeted by all the children queing up to shake our hands actually, they kissed our hands.. I'm touched! We were informed that they used to have a few double decks sponsored by IKEA but the children refused to sleep on the bed and on a few occassion one of them fell from the top deck when they finally decided to dismantle the beds and let the children sleep on the floor with comforter. The activity area is a wide air conditioned area with a shelf and a table on the side and a 2 door refrigerator. At night, the activity area becomes the sleeping area for the boys. They are sharing 1 bathroom and they also have a washing machine. We were shown to the large build-in cupboard sponsored by some individual which came 2-3 weeks ago. They have a proper place to keep the children's clothes and comforter. Everything seems to be proper and comfortable here.
3rd floor is the learning area. They have a 2 class rooms with a total of 43 children, 1 for the kindy, 1 for primary and another one is the audio visual room. The audio visual room is very impressive... sponsored by Maxis so.. u can almost imagine.. nice computers I think there's about 10 dell pc's and an Apple Mac machine, a projector and a large screen, a white board in an air conditioned room. The 3rd floor rental is sponsored by Standard Chartered bank. The children are promised a twice a year trip as a part of their incentive to diligently attend the activities and classes at PAKK.
So, all I have to say is this centre is very very well maintained. It has quite a number of big sponsors for their equipment such as pc, cupboard, learning equipments and all but it is easier said, it is easier see then done, running a centre with 391 children is not an easy task. And the amount of money used is also not small. While in actual fact they are quite well off, we could chip in to make it better especially in terms of daily used items.
Additional information for the Charity Sale is that we will be contributing the items they have listed for us. Organizers will NOT be contributing cash.
So, mark in your calendar, 30th April 2011 KL Sogo - 7th Floor. More info http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=hpskip#!/event.php?eid=108309782583545
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