How did BKTG started ?

I am sure everyone has heard about the book that MYG is coming up with to document the history of MYG for the past 37 years.

Since then, I have been asked many questions ...
Who started BKTG ?

Unfortunately ... I have no reply.

BKTG was started on 7 May 1983.

According to ancient records, BKTG was first formed in Oct 1982 with the aim of basically providing pre-school training to those people with intelluctual disability on the waiting list of the day school.

However, a group of people with Intelluctual disability with behavioural problems who could not be admitted into MINDS' Schools was gradually included in the service ...

Then there was this point abt "Future Direction" ..

It says ... "It is expected that in the near future, the project will serve mainly those clients with behavioural problems. As such, volunteers would have to exercise more conviction and initiative, especially in the planning stages, it is forseen that the main area of service would be in the training of basic self-care skills."

(Looks familiar ? The same paragraph was posted 2 years ago.)

Anyway ... lately, we have been requesting the senior volunteers to check with their senior volunteers on who exactly started BKTG ...

I was happy that we have found some names :
Pioneer of BKTG - Boon Teck Beng followed by Janet Ho.

And fortunately, we have managed to find the contact of one of the pioneer, Janet Ho.

I have been in contact with her for the past few days, was hoping to invite her to join us for the BKTG anniversary however, she is busy with work on Saturdays !

Hopefully one day I will be able to arrange to meet up with her to see what memories can be shared with everyone. It will be so interesting to find out how much our pioneers have gone through in the past ... *I have sent her the blog address too*

Anniversary is once again around the corner ... many thanks for Zhuting, Choon Yee & Affiq for helping to organise =p