The fourth week, not too much work to do

Hi all

It is my forth week with PT Foundation and I just arrived from the first of the two annual volunteers open house day. This volunteer open house was the first this year and another one will be held in December. (so if you want to volunteer with this organisation you can just talk to me.) The event was attended by 32 of the 40 who confirmed their attendance on Thursday. It was quite impressive number as more than half of them were the new volunteers while the rest were the existing ones. These volunteer open house days help us to bring volunteers together to discuss with them on where we need their help and how they would work with us. We also inform them on the vacant posts where we can offer them employment. Also at this event we told them what we expect from them and what they should expect from us. This might seems not a PR based but it is the duty of the PRO to organize such events and to come up with strategies to attract volunteers to the company/organisation.

During the week I was much more relaxing as there were very few things to do in the office. On Monday I wrote the article on our Voluntary Counseling and Testing programme which has tested more than 2300 people for HIV ever since it started operating in 2007. The following day I wrote another article about our ongoing AIDSaware campaign which is to raise 13 000 messages to remember the 13 000 Malaysians who died of AIDS ever since the late 1980 until 2009. Instead of doing the press releases we write articles and then send them to the online media to publish them for us, this is one of the things we have learn in class when doing the feature articles writing.

I also facilitate the visit by students from AISEC who have volunteered their Wednesdays for six weeks to help us with the volunteer works in our office. The students who are from seven different countries being Holland, Germany, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia helped us to cut the red cloth to make the red ribbon for the upcoming World Aids day.

Another thing which I was doing this week was updating our social media. I updated the Facebook page every day and keep on monitoring it for all the comments and reply them. I also post all our upcoming events in the social media like Ruumz and Axcest. These are the most followed websites in Malaysia after Facebook. We depend on them to spread the message to a large number of people as they have many people who we are targeting. Here we are using the new media which one of the vital things in the life of a PRO to keep up with time.

Thank you all until we meet again next week.