Systematic's Hand in Helping Charities
 Selling sweet coconut candies for charity. |
9th September 2005 The Charity Week had all clubs and societies challenging each other in this fund raising effort. “We believe in instilling a sense of social responsibility in students, and have always encouraged them to organise activities with some moral value in it,” said Stephen Sesaiah, student affairs officer and Law Lecturer. Club De Lingua, one of the clubs at the college, sold a variety of sweets, cookies, sandwiches and other assorted snacks for the week. |
“They were one of the most popular stalls during the event as they had mouth watering chocolate-chip, coffee, and checked cookies selling for only RM2.00 per packet. Besides that, they sold bouquets of lollipops, too,” said Sesaiah.
A healthy competition amongst the clubs was encouraged. The Indian Cultural Society opened a stall selling fruits, specially bought in from Ipoh . They gave Club De Lingua a run for their money as the Indian Cultural Society had their stall placed strategically next to theirs.
“Students and lecturer who bought the rich, sugary cookies felt a little guilty and health conscious and bought the fruits to mollify their guilty conscious,” Sesaiah joked.
The athletic young men of the Football Club put their muscle and brawn in to good use. They collected old newspapers from students, lecturers and the general public and the proceeds of the sales went entirely to the two orphanages.
The Systematic Information Ambassadors Club (also known as SIAC) introduced something new and interesting to the Charity Week event. They set up a sand art stall. With a large range of cartoon pictures to choose from, students were given the chance to relive their childhood days and make coloured sand art. The stall also stirred the child within amongst some of the lecturers.
Selling home-made coconut candy and t-shirts was Youth Ablaze's, the college Christian Club, way of helping the orphanages. The t-shirts were popular as they were designed by Youth Ablaze members with striking colours and design, and the candy was contributed by one of the lecturer advisors.
Food stalls always do well with charity events. And a charity event would not be complete without a jelly stall. Set up by two groups of students who made their stall part of their final year project, they sold sweet jellies to lecturers and students and blew the event away with a smashing idea of mini bowling.
The mini bowling was definitely the highlight of the event and it had so many people laughing and cheering, that almost everyone came out to see what the noise was about. It was definitely a blast,” enthused Sesaiah.
Being in the commercial centre of SS2, a car wash was a definite fund raiser. “We had cars lining up to be washed and most of it was by people in the offices and shops nearby,” said Sesaiah.
The Charity Week was a success with the combined efforts of both staff and students. The full proceeds of the week were given to Trinity Home and Agathians Boys' Shelter.
Systematic Group has colleges and centres in Kuala Lumpur , Petaling Jaya, Penang , Johor and Sarawak . The Group offers higher education programmes from certificate level to degrees by international partners. Programmes range from business, accountancy and finance, information technology, computing, professional courses and MLVK programmes.
Those interested in the programmes are advised to contact SEGi College campuses in
Kuala Lumpur (03-2070 2078 or 03-2072 2536)
Petaling Jaya (03-7875 7118)
Penang (04-2628127)
Kuching (082-452936) or email askme@segi.edu.my.
For more information, visit www.segi.edu.my