[16/10/2016] Community Service Initiative - The next 1 hour = 23 hours left.

After Erin went to Amcorp Mall to get information, she suggest we should go to the flea market one of the weekends to get the feel of the flow of the flea market and how it works. So I took the initiative to actually do that, with the help of my friend, we went to the mall on Sunday (16th October 2016) at 10am.

Amcorp Mall has to side, east wing and west wing. Both wings had flea market vendors around the corridors of shops on the lower ground, 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. Each floors you can find various unique antiques products that are sold by these vendors. While I was going around looking and surveying, I realised that I've actually been to the flea market with my mum a few times last time, so I'm aware of how the flea market works and some of the vendors are the same ones from last time as well. So basically these vendors are probably a permanent vendors for the flea market.

There's also flea market outside the mall at the entrance but the price is different and there's not much vendors compare to inside.

How to differentiate is the colour of the table cloth, for outside they used a yellow one while inside they used a maroon table cloth.

 

Flea market at the entrance of the mall.

Flea market inside the mall.

Flea market at lower ground floor.

[05/10/2016] Community Service Initiative - The next 3 hours = 24 hours left.

On this day, only Erin did the task.

She went to visit both Publika and Amcorp Mall to give out our proposal to book the venue.

She could only take pictures when she visited Amcorp Mall. The management office was located next to the mall called the Amcorp Tower and the office was located at 3rd floor. The guy in charge was Mr. Ridzuan.

He gaves us these papers with information on how the flea market works. Since we plan to do 2 days on a weekend, it will only cost RM80. 

And we could only book every Tuesday end of the month and it is a first come first serve basis. Basically she only went there to ask information and give out our proposal, we haven't decided when to book yet at that time. 

As for Publika, when Erin went there, she said the person in charge wasn't in charge so she left the proposal to the secretary and wait for a call back but in the end they never called us back.

So at this point, we finalized our choice to do it in Amcorp Mall.

[01/10/2016] Community Service Initiative - The next 1 hour = 27 hours left.

2 weeks have passed and we finally get to go visit PPOC with Ms. Noorseah together with the other group. For this trip only me, Annabel, Eka, Gracia and Nicoule could make it.

Before going to the place, we thought that we should bring our proposal and show it to them to get opinions and approval as we thought we should come prepared.

The reason why we spent only 1 hour there was because we only had to get approval and discuss with Ms. Amy, who was in charge to attend us that day. After getting approval and discussion, we got to dismiss ourselves.

On that day, Ms. Amy told us that the person in charge to give approvals to our proposal wasn't in so we gave her the copy of the proposal to give it to the person in charge and she would email it to Annabel. So we just told her what was our plan, when we told her about booking at Publika and the price, she suggested maybe we should try booking at Amcorp Mall because they had experienced selling it there as well and it was cheaper than Publika. So we gave it a thought as our second venue option.

At the same time, she showed us the products that we would sell which was the tote bags, pouches and hand towels. She also explained to us the price range for each tote bags as they were different sizes for each tote bags.

Personal opinion on the products, I think the tote bags are really pretty and good quality. The pattern they chose are really nice and up to the trend. It's definitely something people would buy but sadly the tote bags are quite pricey. So selling these at our campus ground would be a bad choice since I feel like the students there wouldn't spend their money on it. So we definitely decided to sell them at a mall instead since there'll be various people of ages.

[14/09/2016] Community Service Initiative - The first 2 hours = 28 hours left.

For our Community Service Initiative module, Ms. Noorseah divided us 4 different groups with 2 groups each doing 2 different community service at 2 different places.

Persatuan Pemulihan Orang-Orang Cacat Selangor & Wilayah Persekutuan (PPOC)
1. One group consists of 8 people involving with the raising of funds for the community by selling their hand-made tote bags, pouches and hand towels.
2. One group consists of 8 people involving in producing a simple product that they can make together with the disabled people at the community.

Pusat Penyayang Bakti
1. One group consists of 8 people involving in doing interior work.
2. One group consists of 8 people involving in doing exterior work.

As for me, I chose to be in the 1st group for PPOC. Together with Eka, Annabel, Raymond, Gracia, Erin, Stephnie and Nicoule.

We had to complete 30 hours of social engagement activities and other related work.

We had our first group discussion on this day to plan our journey on this fundraising project and we used up our first 2 hours and so we had 28 hours left to use.

During this discussion we discussed where we want to do the fundraising, specifically which mall. Taylor's University was our last choice since we thought that it won't sell well if we do it in campus. So we tried to come out with few choices before deciding where. The choices we collected were:

1. Bangsar Shopping Complex
2. Publika
3. Amcorp Mall
4. Nu Sentral

As a group we decided to choose Publika as we thought that area would appreciate the kind of charity we're doing. So we searched for contact information online and Raymond called them for us to ask details on booking a place there. We asked Raymond to do it because he has experience handling with the management people when it comes to booking places especially in Taylor's University. What I remember from the call was that to book the place we had to prepare a proposal and email it to them and the cost would be RM8000 and if it's for charity they would consider giving a lower price.

Notes written down from the call Raymond had with person in charge (PIC) for Publika.

After calling them, we started discussing how to produce our proposal to give out to the management of the malls. We mainly discussed the content to put in the proposal especially the date we want to do the fundraising.

Annabel designed a logo just an identity for us also for fun which you can see below.

Proposal done for Publika.

After finishing the proposal for Publika, we decided to have a second option for the venue because we thought the booking fee was too expensive for us.