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.
