So you know how I’m like a serious fan of Tesco Online.

So I was thinking about the convenience of getting groceries delivered right to the doorstep and it occurred to me there was another way of using it.

It’s already mafan enough for me to get groceries for a household of eight, what more say someone who’s running a charity home for like…fifty people wtf.  And coincidentally a friend told me that a charity home she knew who had a monthly wish list of things they needed.

I decided to do something nice. So I got onto Tesco Online and bought a whole bunch of stuff and arranged to have them delivered to the place.

Aih I spent like 50% more of my weekly household budget and I don’t even feel like I made a dent in their wishlist. But I got all kinds of stuff from perishables to cleaning supplies to antiseptic cream and adult diapers.

Ti Ratana is a welfare organization that runs an old folks’ home, children’s home and a women’s shelter. They rely on public funding and they house and care for 200+ people in total so their wishlist is super long. :X

So today Fatty and I drove to Ti Ratana to wait for the Tesco truck so I could sign for the delivery.

They’re  here!!

Getting delivery of the items!

Checking them off the shopping list so I know if the delivery is correct.

So much easier to just have them delivered here than buying myself and carting everything here. 😀

Handing my credit card over.  I dunno why the delivery man looks so hopeless hahahahaa.

(wah this must be the blog post with the most photos of the back of my head wtf)

After that we took a tour around the home (they’re actually pretty big and take up a few buildings down a street). No pictures because they’re not allowed.

Visiting the home was a huge impact on us.  They’re running out of space so some of the old folks’ beds had to be put in the kitchen.  And… most of them just sat around listless or slept.  I asked the caretaker how they all ended up there and she told us it’s usually either they have no kids or family to look after them, or the kids don’t want them, or have no means to care for them.  I looked at them and wondered how must have their youths been? Did they imagine they would spend their last years this way? Does anyone?

While the kids and babies in the home were mostly from single moms who may not even know who the fathers are. The caretaker told us that their moms couldn’t take care of them so they deposited them there.  And those kids would grow up there until they finished high school when they could leave if they wanted to.

Fatty asked, “Does anyone get adopted?” The caretaker answered, “Yes, but we don’t really encourage it.  We’ve had a few cases where the adopted parents returned the child because they ran into financial problems. Or they were childless, but suddenly conceived their own flesh and blood and decided they didn’t want the adopted child anymore.”

WTF?!?! BAD ENOUGH YOU RETURN PETS TO THE SPCA BUT HUMAN ALSO WANT TO RETURN? You think a child is your plaything!?!?!?!?!? You think got return policy and money back guarantee!?!?! It should be a jail-able offense.

My blood boiled. I thought about our Fighter safe at home who will never live a day without love, and if we can help it, will never want for anything.  How lucky he is. And for that matter, how lucky we all are.

Please don’t say wah you so noble or anything cos it’s…awkward wtf.  I feel like this is selfish kindness wtf cos I just think that if the roles were reversed, and I didn’t have the privileges I do, I’d want people to help me out.  The least I can do is this.  Maybe next time if I need it, someone will come to my help too.

To be honest I feel a bit ashamed that I only thought of doing this cos I was thinking of my own grocery shopping at Tesco.  But I’m glad I did.

If you want to help out too or find out more, here’s the Ti Ratana website.  And if you want some Tesco delivery, here’s their website too.