World First Aid Day (End of Internship)

Finally it came down to the big day, the one I have been working so hard for. The World First Aid Day 2013. The event went by rather smoothly apart from a few small hiccups here and there that I feel most events would probably face.

On the very morning, I helped out with the final set up and briefed the Secretary General, Mr Benjamin William on the final run down of the event. We were expecting invited guests to arrive at 9.00am, and our Guest of Honour, Associate Professor Fatimah Lateef to come at 9.15am. However, she arrived much earlier than expected, arriving 10 minutes before 9.00am. Thankfully, most of the guests had already arrived. And so, the event celebration commenced at 9.00am sharp.

I was rather nervous as this was my first time being an emcee for an event and having important guests, just made it a lot more nerve wrecking for me. Thankfully after the first 10 minutes into the celebration, I managed to calm down a little and everything went rather smoothly.

Greeting our Guest of Honour

Channel News Asia sent a small crew to film the event which was to be aired that very night. The radio station Warna 98.2fm also called up for an interview. We were rather worried that we would not be able to get any coverage on the event, even more so when we were launching our new course as no TV or radio station could confirm their attendance until just the evening before the event.

Once the launch was over, and the tea reception was over, the Guest of Honour and the Vice Chairman of Singapore Red Cross, Mr Axel Chan came over and had a few words with me. They asked me about my internship experience and the experience I had putting together this event.

These are some photos from the World First Aid Day:

Signing of the event launch poster

From left to right: Mr Thiru (trainer), Mr Axel Chan (Vice Chairman), Mr Benjamin William (Secretary General), GOH, Associate Professort Fatimah Lateef, Ms Julie (trainer), Ms Faiszah Bte Adbul Hamid (Head of Training Academy), Mdm Eileen Cher (Head of Corporate Communications)

Caregiver's First Aid Course for Elderly in progress

I have to say it was a great experience for me and was very excited when my boss Eileen spoke to me about an opening to work in Red Cross doing similar work to what I was doing during my internship. My colleagues were great and really pleasant and I am really looking forward to joining them again. Red Cross has given me the flexibility to complete my last semester in Curtin as well as to work with them.