Charity Health Fair 2012

Date: 20-22.4.2012 @ 10am-8pm

Venue: tHe Spring, Kuching

Members attended: Derbe, Kuek Hoon, Melissa, Audrey C, Joanne, Jenny, Pei Pei, Alex, Jason, Audrey W, Eng Eng, Siaw Ching, Cynthia, Gladys (new member)

The Charity Health Fair 2012 was jointly organized with the Sarawak State Health Department. The main objective of this project was to increase health awareness among the public by providing free health screenings, information, health related demonstrations and activities.

Members busy setting up the banner poles.

Members turned up in force at 10pm on 19.4.2012 (the night before the event) to help with the setting up.The last of us only managed to leave at 1.30am.

 The event was arranged in 3 main sections – Health Screening, Booths and Exhibitions.

 

Health screening area

Health Screening

The free tests included Body Mass Index (BMI), Cholesterol, Blood Pressure, Blood Glucose, Fat measurement, Bone density (by BP Healthcare) and Hearing (by Gnosis). Dieticians and doctors were also on hand to offer diet and health counseling. Members of the public started lining up for the health screening from as early at 9.30am on Friday 22.4.2012.

Registration table

Lion Melissa helping out with the health screening

Booths

In the booths section, there were 10 participating companies promoting their health related products and services. The booths were: BP Healthcare Group, Gnosis Professional Hearing Services, Indulgence Spa & Reflexology, Abbot MND, Public Mutual Fund, Slimming Sanctuary, Micromedic Sdn Bhd, Blacksmore, 3A Pharma Sdn Bhd and Swiss BioMedics.

Exhibition stands

There were also various exhibition stands at the event: Your Medicine Exhibition, Drugs & counterfeit products, Organ Donation Campaign, Breast cancer awareness (by Sarawak Breast Cancer Association), Diabetes awareness, HFM disease, Smoking cessation, Systemic lupus erythematosus awareness (by Persatuan SLE Malaysia), Lions (by New Century Lions Club of Kuching Emerald).

Our Club's exhibition stand

Close up of our board.

In all, over 600 people benefitted from the health screening and many more visited the exhibitions and booths. We also managed to raise about RM3,000 for our project fund. This money will be utilized to fund other charity projects in future.   

We would like to take this opportunity to express our heartfelt thanks to the Sarawak State Health Department and all their staff that participated in the event. In particular, we wish to thank Mr. Robin Tan and Ms. Melissa Lim (also our club member) for all their help and guidance. We would also like to thank our Sponsors and their staff: tHe Spring, Roche, Pfizer, Campus Resources, Sarawak Heart Foundation, Batik Boutique Hotel, Nung Hua Printing, D.P. Display SB,  BP Healthcare Group, Gnosis Professional Hearing Services, Indulgence Spa & Reflexology, Abbot MND, Public Mutual Fund, Slimming Sanctuary, Micromedic Sdn Bhd, Blacksmore, 3A Pharma Sdn Bhd and Swiss BioMedics.

This project would not have been possible without your support and generosity. Your act of kindness does not end here. Through the fund that was raised in this event, your kindness will continue to benefit many more people in our future charity projects. Once again, Thank You! 

And now, for more photos :)

Many other lions stopped by as well. Group photo with a Lion from Tawau

Lion from China

Group photo of club members with Mr. Robin Tan

Members posing with the balloon stands donated by the Sarawak Heart Foundation

Our new member Gladys is so dedicated she even offered to help out with foot massages

And last but not least, a photo of the 3 co-organising chairpersons: Robin, Melissa and Derbe