Willing Hearts in a secular, non-denominational and
non-affiliated charity. They operate a soup kitchen that prepares, cooks and
distributes about 4,500 meals to the needy every single day.
As part of our
residential stay, we headed down to their soup kitchen located at the Kembangan
- Chai Chee Community Hub at 5.30 am in the morning. Despite being early in the
morning, the kitchen was already running, and at a very fast - paced, leaving
us at a loss to what we were supposed to do. The volunteers who are already
there started assigning us with various tasks such as preparing the frozen
food, stirring the curry, lining the pratas for baking etc. Since it was our
first time there, many of us were unsure of our tasks, and started off quite
clumsily. However, as the time pass by, we got more familiarise with our tasks
and we could complete them in a shorter amount of time. By 7.30 am, there were
more volunteers streaming in. The kitchen was filled with many different types
of volunteers, such as undergraduates, working adults and aunties and uncles.
It is heartening for me to see different types of volunteers coming together in
the soup kitchen to help out and this also encouraged me to go back to Willing
Hearts to help out again. For me, this was a very tiring experience but at the
same time, very meaningful as I've learned that every single one of us plays a
very important role in helping and giving back to the community.
- Denise
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