Aftermath of EIP

Elaine: Well, as for some of you might know, i helped Adrian and the confirmands to organise the EIP(Exposure Immersion Program) for the confirmands. It is a program to bring the confirmands to homes or centers to let them get exposed or in another way to show them the other ugly side of the world, far from their usual pampered world.(its true, i find that a lot of young teens now are so pampered and are not aware that there are lots of unfortunate people!!! Well, i got the previlege to follow them and go to this leprosy center... The place is actually beautiful, full of greens, flowers place (there are lots of nursery that sell extra cheap plants) and all of the building are very world war 1 times...according to one of the resident there, it has over 100 years of history...
When i reached there we were greeted by the person in-charge and he brought us to wards to visit the patients there..
It was heart wrenching to see them...some lost their legs and are not able to walk, some their fingers are gone, some they had gone blind and got other sickness like diabetes and cancer etc....
I remembered most a patient that was categorised as a psychiatric case, no one approached him so Ching Wei and I went up to talk to him....but all he does is asked us to take the grill on his bed down....it's sad to see him like this, i know that people dont like to be locked up especially when you are already sick...but all we can do is to tell him that we can't....
There are a lots of patients there that are as sad as him...cause they are all abandoned by their families and just waiting to die there...a lot of them had been staying there for more than 50 years....just sad, really sad....
A lot of times i have to control myself and not cry out...
I guess all i can do is to just pray for them....