First Report

First report (group: KaMbiNG)
Date: 08/01/2011
Time : 10am-1pm
Venue : RNQ
Alhamdulillah..Last Saturday we have started our program with adolescent at RNQ. Our visit was welcomed by the residents of the house. They approached us with friendly and happy face.
After having some taaruf, the participants were divided into four groups which consist of five members in each group. The groups were distributed based on animal’s names which are Lembu, Kambing, Ayam and Katak. I have facilitated Kambing’s group.
As a facilitator and an observer for this group, I have put some expectation on them. I hope that they can give full cooperation and commitment throughout the session. I also hope they are able to gain something from the activities and finally achieve the goals set for this program.
Comments for ROUND ROBIN module:
After the participants were grouped, assigned facilitator started to make ice-breaking with the group members. The participants were interviewed a little bit about their background information. However, some of them showed negative responses and seemed reluctant to share about their selves maybe due to confidentiality. It was not an easy task to build and gain trust from someone that you just met. Therefore, it was the facilitators’ task to build rapport among the group members. The participants were asked to draw three things that they like and dislike. After finishing with the drawing, each participant presented his/her drawings and the reasons why they choose those pictures. From that drawing, we could infer something about their inner thoughts, dreams, and interests and so on. At the end of ice-breaking session suddenly one of the members was crying because it was his birthday. He told us that he never celebrated his birthday and no one gives him present. We felt sorry for him because it was unexpected. If we knew it earlier, we could have prepared something for him. After that event, he did not want to participate anymore although we have coaxed him and give some counseling.

Comments for JOHARI WINDOW’s module:
In the second module, the participants were asked to write the perception towards their own selves and what others’ perception towards themselves. However, only a part of the members are really participates in the activity. Some of them uninterested to join, cannot stay sit, walking around and looking their friends from the other groups. It was very challenging to discipline adolescents. The members who participated showed difficulties in expressing their thoughts, lack of confident and took long time to finish the task. After they were done, we were discussing their result. We found that for the future, most participants wrote they did not know when they can go back to their own home. It was touching our heart. From the observation also, we found that even though they lack confident, they tried to share something about themselves.

Comments for WHO IS NURUL? Module:
The participants were asked to illustrate who is Nurul from their perspectives. However, we could not finish this module because the time constraint.