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THE JOURNEY -- Pre Expedition

3. Teambuilding & Facilitation Session

TSB Sports Day Run @ NTU



Endless meetings and faci sessions...

Months of preparations...

Fine tuning programs...

Most of all... THE BOND TSB FORGE!

ITS ALL IN THE SCRIPT!

THE JOURNEY -- Pre Expedition

2. Fundraising Events

• International Awareness Week (March)

IAW was held in NUS central forum organized by NUS Muslim Society between 9-11 Mar 09. TSB was given the opportunity to reach out to the NUS community to raise awareness at the same time fundraise for their project. Among the food items the team sold were, OTAK2, NASI LEMAK, BROWNIES, ICE CREAM cone, FLOAT drink, FONDUE, ROVING SWEETS & NACHOS w/ CHEESE! The event surely thought TSB the ART of Selling! How the team managed manpower, to the design of the booth, liaise with suppliers, etc were commandable!

• Coffee & Donuts Sales (April)

Sales of Coffee & donuts were held on 5 consecutive days in the 1st week of April. First 3 days were in NUS and 2 days in NTU. The team made pre-orders through mass emailing their schools. At the same, on the ground sales & door to door sales were done to boost fundraising. Coffee & Donuts sales were made possible with the help from various parties - exco & friends.

• Donations from Ar-Raudah Mosque & Al-Mutaqqim

We are extremely grateful to receive support from the Jemaah of the above mosques. It is heartwarming for TSB & the community in Lan Jia Chun to know that we have the support of our local community for our cause. It pushes us forward to work harder despite many obstacles.

• Zam-zam Briyani & Murtabak coupon sales

With the help of NTU Muslim Society and Zam-Zam (a popular food outlet), TSB sold briyani & murtabak coupons to the community at large. Huge thanks to our families and friends who supported us!!! TSB raised a huge sum of money that mainly goes to the construction of the garden in Lan Jia Chun.

Furthermore, we humbly extend our utmost gratitude to those who have contributed in terms of cash donations, manpower, time and sweat towards this cause. May Allah reward you.

• Sales of customize test tubes

TSB sold over 400 customize test tubes over the course of 4 months to family and friends. Each test tubes were sold at $2.50 that includes your desired text, decorations in the test tube and thank you tags.

THE JOURNEY -- Pre Expedition

1. Local Community Service - Cahaya M. (mendaki program)
www.mendaki.org.sg/content_files/cahayaM.htm MENDAKI LEARNING CENTRE: CAHAYA M, its target group consisting of children from low-income/low-educated parents who may not have the opportunity, know-how, resources and self-confidence to gather knowledge and ideas on how they can help to develop their thinking skills. TSB volunteers facilitated outdoor science lesson - Lesson of the Day; DIY Volcanoes.

TSB Recce (22nd-25th Feb 09)

Winter in China. We never really gave much thought about our recce trip. It was difficult to even imagine that we were due to make 3 transfer flights before arriving in Lijiang at dusk.

It was just Hajjar and Salman who walked passed the departure gate of Budget Terminal. For the both of us, it was our first time travelling out of Singapore with just each other and however the case may be, we kept our faith strong knowing God has always been our insurance.

At Lijiang Airport, we were greeted by Brother Hamzah (chief village) and Brother Ahsu (guide) whom the team is due to liaise with in time to come. We checked in a hotel for the night, rest for the following day's journey up to Haba Mountain as we were warned its going to be exhausting.

We were joined by Cik Mariah and together, the 5-men team set off in Bro Hamzah's van for HABA MOUNTAIN.

We did had some detour / stopovers along the way... We stopped at a bridge that cuts across the Yangtze River - that divides Lijiang and Shangri-la. We surveyed the appropriate WCs -water closets that we feel our team members are able to utilize it. Many we encountered either without doors or its doors are half the supposed height. We stopped by Tiger Leaping Gorge Town where we had lunch and it is also to be the place where the team are to get construction and household supplies. We descended down the Tiger Leaping Gorge (one of our R&R destinations), to view the magnificant river that never stop eroding the gorge to deeper height- slowly but God's Will, surely. The road was extremely winding. As our small but sturdy van drive past through the meandering road, not forgetting steep, Salman counted the number of times we had to drive on untarred road, conducted his risk assessment for possibilities of rocks and boulders to roll pass or worst, over us.

We 1st met Brother Ali @ Kunming airport on our 2nd transit. Bro Ali also joined the team in our June Expedition.

Upon reaching Shangri-la, We visited 1st of the two intended villages; Lan Jia Chun - the village unknowing to us at that point that it was where we would some day call 'home' . Salman n Hajjar were greeted by a tall handsome man carrying his pink cheeks daughter. He was soft spoken however his smiles spoke a thousand words. We were clueless as to who he is. But with God's Grace, our path crossed once again during our June expedition.

After the ground assessment at Lan Jia Chun, we took off to another village -Long wan Bian village, 30mins van ride. After much consideration and identification of needs on the 2 villages, with God's Grace, Lan Jia Chun is where TeamSkybreaker! would have an experience of their lifetime.