Youth Cares: March 2012

This was an opportunity not only the kids but some of YC's members as well. How many of us are exposed to the world beyond us? =)

The Youth Cares members once again held a charity event on 17th of March 2012 for the month of February and March. The charity was held at Rumah Kebajikan Seri Cahaya. The theme for this event was star gazing and the objective was to expose the children to astronomy.

The event started at 8.30pm. The reason being it starting late was because stars and planets are much more visible to our naked eyes at night. Since, children these days love experiencing and exploring new things, the YC members decided to give these adorable children the chance of a life time.

Here are some photo's before we get started :

A group photo session.

The children preparing for the briefing

The Telescope used for the star gazing, SKY WATCHER!!

Everybody excited to get to know new things

Mr. Jivagaran (Standing) and Mr. Veerayan (Sitting Down)

Priyanka, the most hyper kid.

Patiently waiting....

At 9.00pm the YC members started the event with Mr. Jivagaran briefing the children about star gazing and on how to use the devices in order to see the planets that is far far away from Earth. As he briefed the kids, questions were also asked to the children to test their knowledge, in order to know how much these kids knew about the solar system..

There goes the pictures :

Mr. Jivagaran giving the first briefing

All excited to answer questions!!

The Sun

Mr. Veerayan setting up the Sky Watcher!

Second briefing by Mr. Veerayan.

Once the briefing was done, all the kids and the YC members had a chance to look into the telescope to see the planet Mars. But before that, Mr. Veerayan showed a few short clips of the planet Moon, Jupiter and Saturn. It was a great opportunity for the kids and as well as for the YC members. It was about 11.00pm when we started to view the planets. It was really mesmerizing.

Pictures up :

Short clips on the go!!

JUPITER

THE MOON

SATURN

More briefing...

The end results after briefing the children about astronomy!

Vijay, the happy go lucky boy!

STAR GAZING STARTS....

After the star gazing, the children had some light refreshment prepared by the YC members. Before forgetting, the YC members gave some rations for the home. It was almost 12am, it was already very late for the children as they have to wake up at 5am. And so, the YC members cleaned up the place.

The rations we bought for the orphanage