interview ‘lighthouse’ manager on ‘street walk’

what is the lighthouse? a drop-in centre for the homeless people run by the penang catholic church.

what is the street walk? a project of the lighthouse. once a month on first saturday. cooking food and bringing them out to the homeless street people on the streets.

on 5 sept., citizen journalists lim boo seng and myself joined in the street walk. before we hit the street, i interviewed belevendiran joseph (or fondly known as bele in short), the lighthouse manager about the street walk. lim took the video. we went out on the street, together with several other volunteers at 11.00pm. i brought along my flip video and took many shots of volunteers giving out food, drinks and clothes.

we went to market street, jln. mesjid kapitan keling, weld quay, hotel central, prangin mall, komtar.

wanted to combine my video shots with that of lim to made one full video (editing by lim) but unfortunately after i passed my flip video to lim, he said he found viruses in the video files. what a pity. i thought i would have the chance to see some of my video shots. now, as it is, only shots from lim were used.

as we filmed this as part of our citizen journalism work, the video is up on malaysiakini tv. as from now (about 10 hours after it was up) i spy over 800 views. well i hope more people will view it so that they’ll be aware that there are many street people around and that there are good people like the lighthouse volunteers around to help them.

this was my third time that i went on the street walk. first time it was with a small group just for first experience. second time, it was with our church’s ‘penang human development committee’ group and i had blog about it here. that was in may last year when i have not joined malaysiakini’s citizen journalism workshop yet. however in march this year (after i joined the workshop in jan.) a few of us citizen journalists did went out on the street during the night… but not to give out food. we went out to interview the homeless people. i did one interview in bahasa (and yes, i’m aware of the criticism i get on how bad i was. sob.). read about it here.

since not all of you are subsribers of malaysiakini, you can’t view the video on malaysiakini tv (but if you are, please do view it from there, as i want to see the number of hits!), i’m putting up the video here, taken from lim’s youtube site.