The World AIDS day is held on the 1st of dec every year. This year, the World Vision Organisation was launching a One life Experience walkthrough exhibition to allow visitors to be immersed in the lives of young people living with AIDS and also to increase the awareness of HIV/AIDS. It will be held at 4 different venues from Dec 1 - Feb 3.
At the start of this dec, I have been performing a 3-day stint as a volunteer in the OLE exhibition held in a tent that was bulit outside Woodlands Civic Center. During these 3 days, I have filled in at 3 different stations, the check-in counter, health clinic and check-out counter.
The exhibition was a rather small-scale kind and this was also my first time volunteering in such event. The exhibition was structured in a maze-like form. It was divided into 3 foot-tracks, based on the real-life account story of Beatrice from Africa, Srey Mom from Cambodia and Ah Hock from Singapore. These 3 foot-tracks will ultimately end at the health clinic before proceeding on to the reflection corner, the jotting of notes of encouragements to the HIVs/AIDS patients area and the bracelet-making section before reaching the check-out counter.
I daresay this exhibition was definitely worth a visit as not only its free of charge, the style of presentation and the way of story-telling through an audio-set issued can really intrigue and create a strong impact on the visitors (also provided that you really follow the tracks and narrator closely). Hey, i even saw a middle-age woman break down and cried after the visit during the 1st day.
On the whole, though there were some hiccups occurred during the exhibition, still it proceed smoothly as the event has received sizeable number of positive responses from the visitors.
At the start of this dec, I have been performing a 3-day stint as a volunteer in the OLE exhibition held in a tent that was bulit outside Woodlands Civic Center. During these 3 days, I have filled in at 3 different stations, the check-in counter, health clinic and check-out counter.
The exhibition was a rather small-scale kind and this was also my first time volunteering in such event. The exhibition was structured in a maze-like form. It was divided into 3 foot-tracks, based on the real-life account story of Beatrice from Africa, Srey Mom from Cambodia and Ah Hock from Singapore. These 3 foot-tracks will ultimately end at the health clinic before proceeding on to the reflection corner, the jotting of notes of encouragements to the HIVs/AIDS patients area and the bracelet-making section before reaching the check-out counter.
I daresay this exhibition was definitely worth a visit as not only its free of charge, the style of presentation and the way of story-telling through an audio-set issued can really intrigue and create a strong impact on the visitors (also provided that you really follow the tracks and narrator closely). Hey, i even saw a middle-age woman break down and cried after the visit during the 1st day.
On the whole, though there were some hiccups occurred during the exhibition, still it proceed smoothly as the event has received sizeable number of positive responses from the visitors.
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