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Daryl Cheah shares:

Lasallian Day of Prayer for Peace, otherwise known as LDOPP was tasked to us by La Salle Centre, Ipoh. Our theme this year is “Colourblind”. Our activities were selling of button badges, setting up a booth, giving a speech to the students and setting up of peace wall. The duration was a one month period from 24^th September till 21^st October.

The project started out with a speech given by Teh Jia Wei to the students during our Friday school assembly regarding our topics and activities that were about to be carried out.

During the 27^th of October, a peace wall was decorated along our schools ping pong court with articles on peace and was revealed to the students on the 28^th of September. It stayed up till the 21^st of October.

After that, on the 4^th of October, we prepared sweets with tags containing quotes that show colour-blindness, as well as peace quotes, to be given out during the 1^st and 2^nd recess.

A canvas was prepared for students who supported our cause to sign and put hand prints on it.

On the 15^th of October our fourth and final activity was selling of Button Badges. The button badges were sold out fast. We earned a total of RM 120.00. The money will be donated to the La Salle Centre Penang.

The good thing about LDOPP is that we ourselves get the chance to accomplish this project to make a better future for everyone else. We were able to touch hearts and change lives as said in our school motto. We only managed to reach out to a handful of students, but as long as we touch the hearts of some, it’s already a big achievement for us.

The project opened up my eyes towards the suffering of many because of difference in religion. It opened my eyes and made me realise that even thought we are from different races and religions, there is only one race in the world, it is called The Human Race.

Honsa Ung writes:

The good thing about LDOPP was I had a chance to work things out together with my fellow friends and develop teamwork among us. Furthermore, I have learnt how to overcome obstacles which were blocking me from reaching the top.

What went wrong during LDOPP was only the timing, preparation and organization. Some of the teachers did have some interest in this programme and supported us. For the students, most of them were actually interested in this programme and questioned us about it but unfortunately they don’t really know the story of La Salle.

I am happy to be in the organising team of LDOPP. It buries the spirit of changing lives in me and I have learnt a lot of stuff from here. It was quite tough organising LDOPP as we lacked manpower sometimes and it clashes with our exams, but we took it as a challenge and got over it.