High Tea With A Cause

Our boys were guest performers at a high tea to launch a programme to assist widows from the poor to supplement their income with the hope that they will be able to empower themselves with the necessary entrepreneurial skills.

Our boys opened the event by reciting a doa, followed by a rendition of the Asma al-Husna (the 99 names of Allah), and ended their performance with an English song entitled The Wheel on the Bus.

The programme known as W2W an acronym for Women To Women was organised by Sense and Sensibility and was launched by the chairman of the Women Institute of Malaysia (WIM), Tan Sri Napsiah Omar.

The high tea was held at the Matrade building Kuala Lumpur, head office of the Ministry of International Trade on March 30, 2008 and was attended by about 300 guest.

Under the W2W programme, Sense and Sensibility will sponsor one time only, various hygiene and personal care products supplied by their participating partners worth RM1,000.00 to each widow who registers as a participating member of the programme.

The participating members will then sell these products and keep the profits. They will then be able to roll over the RM1,000.00 capital to replenish new stock of goods.

The participating members can also opt to individually request for a sponsored assistance amounting to RM1,000.00 to help them start their own small business near their home.

Members of the public are also welcomed to play their part as donors for the W2W programme as Sense and Sensibility is working closely with various orphanages to reach more needy widows to participate in the programme. For further information please call Zainoriah at +6012 6145 921 or Zainab at +6012 2100 541.

Sense and Sensibility later donated RM20,000.00 to Rumah Aman being proceeds raised through the selling of tables for the high tea.

We thank Sense and Sensibility for the contribution and pray Allah give success to the W2W programme.