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Blood, sweat and tears. That's what it's gonna take for us to get this campaign going. Ok, well less of the blood since there's no need for violence but definitely lots of the rest.
Point proven today when we practically sweated our faces off in the blazing afternoon sun. With the temperature well above 35 C, Rebekah and I (Rachel) plodded along Jalan Masjid Negeri to cajole people into supporting our campaign. And so, we set forth at 2.30 p.m. lugging our bag of products, donation tin, petition forms, notebooks and pens, we commenced our journey off to the first of many shops : a plant nursery. Among others, we also managed to visit furniture shops, a dermatologist center and a driving school. Both of us being 'yellow bananas' and not knowing a word of Mandarin prayed hard that whoever we encountered would speak English.Of course, language was a barrier, but it wasn't an insurmountable one. We got by with hand gestures and a rojak combination of local dialect Hokkien, English and Malay.
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| Rebekah explaining our campaign at the plant nursery. |
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| A worker signing our petition form. |
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| This lady bought 2 key chains! |
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| Rachel persuading a man to buy our products |
The important thing is that we managed to get our point across. Throughout the day, we received encouragement and lots of donations ranging from RM 1 to RM 10. Every little bit helps! Also, our key chains sold like hot cakes and many cooed over the 'cuteness' of them. And of course, the price is very attractive (RM 2).
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Another one showing support.
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Our biggest donor!
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| Returning to school after a looong time in the sun. |
At around 3 pm, we walked back to school and resumed campaigning in Menara Greenview condominium at 4. Thankfully, most of the occupants we met spoke English and they were all glad to help us. At this point, we'd enlisted the help of Ms. Jody Wong to help us carry stuff around. The residents were very happy to listen to us and we did our best to 'enlighten' them on the fact that orangutans are on the brink of extinction. Or in Hokkien as Rebekah so eloquently put it, "Ai Si Liao" meaning (in direct translation) 'Gonna die already'.
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Jody and Rebekah at Menara Greenview.
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Rachel collection petitions.
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Garnering support from the residents.
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Ms. Jody Wong showing off our T - Shirt
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All in all, we collected lots of money (cha ching! $) and sold a whole lot of products plus we opened the eyes of society to the plight of orangutans. Repeating all those facts (orangutans will be extinct in the next ten years if we don't DO something now!) and lines (please buy this T - shirt to support our campaign!) and mantras (this one costs RM 15, that one's RM 2 and the one she's holding comes at RM 2.50),(orangutans are ENDANGERED) about orangutan well - being was loads of fun, not to mention the walking (in the SUN) is guaranteed to help us fit into those Baby - Ts.
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