| Hakim Hayat |
ELEVEN students from International School Brunei (ISB) spent their free time painting and redecorating the Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha (RIPAS) Children’s Emergency Ward as a means of brightening the surroundings for young patients.
The project, held throughout March this year, was initiated by a teacher from ISB and the Year 12 International Baccalaureate (IB) students.
It was part of a wider initiative to encourage the students of ISB to go out into the Bruneian community and devise ways to give help to those who may need it. To mark the end of the volunteer project, a simple ceremony was held yesterday at RIPAS Hospital, with speeches by representatives of ISB and the hospital.
There was also the handover of toy donations by the ISB students and certificates from RIPAS Hospital to the students for their work.
For the dedicated students, the programme fulfilled their Creativity, Action and Service (CAS) obligations, which stipulate that to graduate, a student needs to perform projects in community service and other activities.
In speaking on the IB Programme and the CAS projects that Year 12 and 13 students have to fulfil, ISB’s CAS Coordinator and Community Service Manager Ivan Green explained that the project enabled students to enhance their personal and interpersonal developments by learning through experience and collaborations.
“It is a project of self-determination for the students who have to show initiative and perseverance to continue their effort throughout the two-year course, and then be honest in their self-evaluation at the end,” he said.
International School Brunei students handing the toy donations to the Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha Children’s Emergency Ward
The students from ISB with their certificates upon the completion of a painting and redecorating project. – PHOTOS: HAKIM HAYAT
Ten of the ISB students are also members of the ISB Leo Club (Leadership, Experience and Opportunity), sponsored by the Lions Club of BSB, and the objective is to “provide the youth of the world an opportunity for development and contribution, individually and collectively as responsible members of the local, national and international community”.
Their activities in the past include helping to decorate areas of Pusat Ehsan Al-Ameerah Al-Hajjah Maryam as well as clean-ups at Meragang Beach among a host of other initiatives.
RIPAS Hospital’s representatives said that they welcome the initiative to brighten the wards and welcome more of such projects in the future.
The ceremony yesterday was attended by Dr Linawati binti Jumat, Emergency Physician and Acting Head of Emergency Department; Dr Ang Ley Bie, Paediatric Emergency Consultant; and Nurhana binti Salleh, Nursing Officer, Emergency Department.
Also present were Jimmy Hong, Sunil Kumar and Francis Lee, the President, Vice President and Treasurer (respectively) of the Lions Club BSB.
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