Mentoring Activity- Community Service @ Perak Society of Mental Health Ipoh, Perak

Community service is one of the activities that been held under the Mentoring Program. There are few objectives of this program and one of them are to develop more soft skills among students as well as to promote unity among students.

One of the community services activities that been organized was activity to Perak Society of Mental Health, Ipoh, Perak Darul Ridzuan. It was held on 27-28 July 2010. The activity been participated by second year and third year students Bachelor of Pharmacy (BPH). The lecturer in charge was Mr Fadhli Asmani. One of the lecturer from School of Pharmacy, Mr Junaedi was wiling to come and joined the activity.The theme was 'Caring Is Not Only Sharing'. It is means to emphasize our purposes to create the awareness among students and show our care towards community.

During the activity, students been divided into few groups and been given tasks. Among the tasks included wiping windows, sweeping and moping the floor, tidy up the surrounding of orchid's garden, etc. Besides that, we had been given a very rare opportunity by the manager Madame Latifah which was a tour around the center, besides the explanation about the background of the center and details abouts mental patients. We were taken to the workshop where the patients make the handcrafts include ceramic items, handmade-dolls, etc. We also went to the orchid garden and experienced the tasty rambutans collected by one of the patients. Before leaving, two participants took the opportunity to sing some songs with one of the patient there and everyone was touched with situation.