Report on Interact Club of SMKA International Understanding Day 'The Invisible Innocents: Breaking Away from the Boulevard'

          On the day of 6th of July 2013, interact club of SMK Assunta had invited Leos from Assunta to their IU day. The IU day of SMK Assunta was held in the hall and started from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.

          This year, their theme will be ‘The Invisible Innocents: Breaking Away from the Boulevard’. The word Invisible means something that we cannot see, or something that seems to not be there. Innocents here refer to children, whose souls are pure and innocent of anything.

          Yet, their innocence is tainted with suffering, on the streets where we regard them as invisible. Everyday people carry on with their daily lives, working and such without regarding these seemingly unseen fixtures that lurk in the corners of streets as if they are invisible. These invisible innocents work, live and sleep on these streets, with no place to call home. They plan to help these 'invisible innocents' by helping them to 'break away from the boulevard' meaning to get them off the streets.

          Their goal this year is to contribute as much as possible to raise funds for street children in urban Myanmar. Myanmar is home to many children, forced to work in the streets out of poverty. There are three kinds of street children; children who live and work on the streets, children who work in the streets but have a home to go to, and children who live on the street without family support. At a young age, they see this children forced to be independent at a much too early age. That reason, their organization aims to raise RM 30,000 through this International Understanding Day to assist in the succession of this project. We will collaborate with World Vision Malaysia. World Vision plans to focus on non-formal education (NFE), health care, school support and recreation for these street children while setting up community based centres to prevent children from living and working on the street. The programme also provides free education through NFE centres and school support (fees & materials) to poor children who are attending formal schools.

           The event started with a speech from the Emcee. Then, the performer, Nash the Assuntarian with a big voice performed brilliantly on the stage that day. Next, the students of SMK Assunta represents the interact club of Assunta to perform 3 different types of race’s dance. The first one will be the Malay dance then followed by Chinese and Indian’s dance.

          After that, we watched a short film about the lifestyle of children from Myanmar. Then, a girl came to Assunta from far to perform 2 songs with a very nice and sweet voice. Although there’s an electrical problem, she managed to sing perfectly without any background music.Then, the magic show is the next. Chris Cheong, the youngest Malaysia’s magician came to SMK Assunta and performed some magic show. He first performed about hand and showed us how he tricked with our hands. Then ‘mind reading’ is the next with the help of his assistant starting with a thick novel book. Chris actually succeeds reading his assistance’s mind. Next, he did a very excited and high risked magic show. He prepared 3 paper bags and placed sharp steel on top of the wood and put it inside either one of the 3 paper bags and closed them up. Then, he asked his assistant to mix the paper bags up.

          When Chris him stopped when his assistant wants to. It was dangerous if his assistant had chosen the wrong paper bag because his hand might be injured. Chris succeeds to choose the safest paper bag at the end. Lastly, the most welcome guest is Caprice. He and his partners were performing hip hop dance and rapping. Almost everyone went near to him and support him. After his fans took some photos with him, they left.

          Lastly, gifts were given out as appreciation for the clubs and authorities who have attended and everyone was let out for refreshments. The members of Leo club of Assunta really had a great meaningful day with the our school and other’s interactors.

Report by,
Leo Shoong Yoke Ling & Leo Sharifah Nur Jahan