LION AT PRISON III - It is more than a prison!

ROAD SAFETY CAMPAIGN 
Time: 8.30am - 12.30pm
Date: 4th November 2012
Venue: Sungai Buloh Prison

Quite many of us do not like to have any kind of links with prison, perhaps it is due to the fact that many of us are still reluctant to forgive what the inmates have done before they are being sent here.

The prison authority is working hard on the PR work for the prison. The PR work may help to change the mindset of the public against the prison and the inmates as well. 

With that in mind, the Lions Club of Sungai Buloh has supported the project with action. We have sponsored helmets for the Road Safety Campaign that organized by the Sungai Buloh Prison on 4th November 2012, Sunday. The programmer was assisted by the Road Transportation Department and involving students from four secondary schools around the area.

There were exhibition booths, pictures of horrible road accident scene, road safety briefing, drama presented by the inmates and so on that aimed to create awareness about road safety among the young road-users.

We shall support the community projects by the prison authority; it could add point to their PR effort. Prison is an institution that being entrusted by the government to re-educate the people who have once missed the direction of lives and committed some serious mistakes. However, it is not end of the world, they are given chance to ‘take 2’ or come again in their lives. 

Negative mindset against the prisons and the ex-convicts would do no better to our society, but push them closer to the negative forces which would lead them back to the prisons; in other words, higher crime rate.

Our little effort to support the event is aimed to get more NGOs to work hand in hand with the prisons with an aim – one day, the public would accept the fact that prison is just another kind of School.

With Passion, We Serve.