First time co-organizing an event

Hi, fellow friends and lecturers. Let me introduce myself.

I’m Chen Hau Yung, I am known as Jacky and I am currently interning at a company named Interhill Group of Companies in the Corporate Communication Department.

Let’s get things started

When I joined this company there is another intern named Nduaguba Amauche Francisca and she is finishing in this month.

Interhill Group of Companies’ motto is ‘Committed to People’ and for the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), there are three different areas of CSR. The three areas of CSR includes Education, Women Empowerment and Environment. In the education part, there lies The After School Project.

The After School Project is a project where each and every month, the company will spend two to three hours educating the unfortunate children that has no parents or are not able to go for education due to their current financial status.

The benefits of interning in this company is that we are able to come up with ideas and organize our own event with the children. Francisca then came up with the event named ‘Dare to Dream’. I’m sure this event seems familiar, and yes Francisca did post about this event in the last few post.

The After School Project’s vision is to create a brighter future for the needy children with affordable and passionate academic learning experiences.

Francisca's event educate the children by maximizing their creativity and also improving their communication skills.

In the event, my duty were emceeing, arranging the event date, gifts buying and arranging the refreshments.

Found the creative side of the children

Group photo of the two winning teams of the drawing event

Challenges & Lessoned

Emcee

First of all, this is my first time emceeing. I nearly freaked out when my supervisor told me to emcee. After composing myself, I went out there and started talking and entertaining everyone including the children. Francisca told me that I performed well and looked calm, but I was nervous the whole time! This is the first time meeting the kids and the caretaker; as an outspoken individual, handling such event by emceeing and gathering the attention is very different. I am agitated at first but throughout the event, I learnt different communication skills. During the event, audience are consist of the children and caretaker, therefore attention grabbing topics are easy. There are times where the audiences are not focus, sometimes being silent is a very powerful in a lot of occasions(especially emcee). 

Arranging the event

Contacting/get in touch with the person in charge is quite a hustle for me as I am not familiar with their schedule and three out of five times the person in charge of the events and activity is not available. Here, I learnt how to adapt and arrange events accordingly as I have never arrange anything with a stranger before.

Francisca - The organizing person

The poster that's done by Francisca and me

The children are very proud of their work of art

Overall, the event is a success. After a few days, there are people called us to express their interest in joining us and cooperating for future events this also proves that the exposure level of the event is well maintained. 

Last but not least, from this event the important thing that I learnt is always be prepared for any unforeseen circumstances and embrace the moment. 

Chen Hau Yung
15655945
Curtin University Miri Campus.