Charitivity: Day 1 Recycling Workshop

Hi there! It's been a long time since I was last here on this blog! Today, I'm going to talk about something I've been up to these few days.

I'm currently in the middle of an event called Charitivity. Charitivity is an event from the BINUS Square Staff for their 5th anniversary event. The event itself consists of 2 parts: a Recycling Workshop, and Recycling Education. This event is created to motivate boarders to do something for a change towards a better nation. They have invited a community named "Lumintu" (Lumayan Itung Itung Tutup Usia) which are a group of people who have dedicated their time to creating amazing stuff from reusable items. They have managed to gain profit from their creations too! Some of their creations are bags, and robots. And by robots, I don't mean simple ones, the robots they created looked like one of those machines you'd find in a Transformers movie!

The first event is a Recycling Workshop, where us BINUS Square boarders are taught how to create robots from reusable items. The workshop was located in our dormitory, BINUS Square, on the 15th of May 2015, starting from 7pm. The items have been kindly cleaned and disinfected by the Lumintu team, which makes it easy for us to create our items. We are also provided with pliers and glue guns to cut and stick our items into a nice looking robot.

After hours of cutting and pasting, I have finally made a robot of my own. It wasn't exactly perfect, but I guess it looks okay.

The robot I made has a rocket behind its body. The two items in front of its body are a shield and a sword.

After finishing with the structure of the robot, we were taken outside to let the Lumintu team to spray our product with silver pylox. The silver color of the pylox really makes the robot shine like a real robot.

Through this workshop, I learned that reusable items can be made into such amazing things, they have so much more potential rather than just throwing it away as trash. Handicrafts like this also train our imagination, so that we can create even better creations. The process also requires patience, since we have to be extra careful with how we cut the items, and how we stick one item to another to create a structured robot.

This is the end of the first day of Charitivity which features the Recycling Workshop!

I will be posting about the next events of Charitivity which feature the Recycling Education, where the knowledge passed onto us from the Lumintu team, will then again be passed to children of Yayasan Hati Suci during the next session.