Community placement

Finally, today we went for the oh- so- looked- forward community placement, which will be organised by every small group discussion of first year medical student. My group went to Yayasan Orang Kurang Upaya Kelantan or YOKUK. Our schedule:

9 am - Arriving YOKUK/ Watch introductory videos by YOKUK
10 am - Performance by us/ Games
11 am - Birthday celebration
12 pm - Lunch
2 pm - Interview with OKU
4 pm - Back

Basically it went well. After we performed by singing I Have A Dream, Kenneth said: "Did you see the look on those kids' face? As if they're forced to listen to us!" Well at least they did not close their ears la, so we assume we done great, haha.

The birthday cake, after some AEIOU games. It's specially for kids borned in November.

Hey Kiet, look, his phone is even better than yours. Hmm.

This guy was the only chinese in YOKUK. He looked perfectly fine, just that he had some problem in speaking.

Isabelle. Occupational therapist from Spain. She came all the way from Spain to Kelantan. So noble. Felt so small beside her, haha.

When we were tidying up the premis, all of the chinese in our group did this... Hmm whose idea was this? =.=

After the morning session we had a 2 hour break, and we had our lunch just across the road. As usual, only 2 or 3 stalls were opened in a huge food court. Maybe they left the empty spaces for cat- rearing.

After lunch, we paid a visit to the therapy room, specially designed and equipped with items to aid recovery of the impaired.

These light- emitting optic fibres was aimed to help those visually- impaired and also incapable in sensory touch, if not wrong.

Optic fibres. Safe for the children.

Eh wake up lo, we got work to do.

After the visit, we resumed our activities for the afternoon session, which is interview with the impaired.

The first client my friends and I interviewed. He was actually fine, just light effect from cerebral palsy, which costed some of his speaking abilities. Well he looked ok though, having a wife and a decent job now, in this organization. What surprised me was that he studied electrical engineering last time, before he got infected. He deserved better I guess.

The second and third we interviewed. Honestly, I did not see any problems on the man, and he did not want to tell. Speaking disabilities for the woman. They did sewing work here to earn some living. By the way, the man is looking for his partner, he is perfectly alright actually, so anyone interested can contact me ya, haha.

Went back at 4.30 p.m.. Basically most of the disabled are still quite capable, so I think they deserve a decent job, according to their limits.