One of the most meaningful thing I did last year 2015 was the Bene Box Project. To give you an idea, this project was the brainchild of Tammy Lim, founder of The Butterfly Project Malaysia in partnership with Caffebene, one of the trendiest Korean cafes sprouting in Malaysia. Through this project, Butterflies were recruited to pack goodies in the form of anything a kid would love into a Bingsu takeaway plastic box to be presented to an individual child from the home of Yayasan Seribu Harapan Malaysia. We were given a list of names to pick the child we want to pack the gift box to, and the whole objective was to make a child smile this Christmas. So I picked an 11 year old boy and thought of all things my sons would like at that age, and got those stuffs for him. Actually, the bene box couldn’t fit all the stuffs I wanted to fit in but I guess it is alright, I really hope the boy likes the gifts.
The bene box packing event was held earlier in Caffebene IOI Mall Puchong, and all the beautiful butterflies were there, busy decorating the boxes and writing special messages. It was fun to do the packing with lovely gals Anis and Aliza, all the As.
Thanks to Caffebene, our morning was made brighter with their coffee and sandwiches. I had their cafe latte and it was just superb, the coffee roast is of great quality and literally woke me up like it said on the mug. I am now a fan of Caffebene and wished and wished a cafe opens nearer to Kajang soon.
So I packed and squeezed and this was my final outcome. I gave my boy a cap, balloons, sweets, stationary etc etc.
Since we were in Caffebene, we might as well have some Bingsu, and I actually learned how to eat Bingsu for the first time.
Choco Bene Bingsu turned out to be my favourite together with the Strawberry Bingsu. We girls really digged in and loved ever freezing bite of it.
Caffebene is also really famed for their Gelato, and I just had to try the green tea Gelato and it was the yumz. The right kind of creamy and the perfect green tea flavour. I totally enjoyed it stay tuned for my next post, Part 2 when I get to meet the kids for real and savour more of Caffebene food!
Pic by Tammy Lim
For more info and pics see Caffebene Malaysia facebook page.
For more info about The Butterfly Project https://www.facebook.com/ButterflyProjectMalaysia/
actually i am also a butterfly, male butterfly. haha
Meaningful project that you had. So sad that i cant join it. 🙁
Btw, i like caffebene gelato!
Bene box project is one of good charity program. Hopefully the Harapan Children will be on their Christmas 🙂
This is such a sweet & lovely charity. Kudos to all of you for your big hearts! <3
Mishventurer
Love the bingsu here!!
I love their coffee and I love bingsu too. Ohmy, just look at all those delicious bingsu. What a great event. 😀
A meaningful project. Love their bingsu as well. 😉
Interesting charity event. Wish I got the chance to participate it too.
this looked so much fun.. i forgot about this totally.. oh my..
Looks so fun! And you guys are such sweethearts to be doing this for the kids 🙂
glad meeting you on that day. It really a great charity event for 2015 Christmas
I think this is a wonderful project that brings smiles to marginalised children. Christmas is all about giving, anyway.
Choco Bene Bingsu is my favourite too. Looks tempting. Need to try this out.
That was a whole load of fun… hope we can do it again this year….. have fun and do our part for charity trying to make a kid happy
Such a meaningful event… I miss going event with Butterfly but dunno why everytime the timing just not suitable for me recently.. sob sob…
wow the ice cream looks good 🙂 enjoy it
What an awesome initiative! Would love to take part in the next event
Wish I was there, too! Seems you guys enjoy it very much!
Looks like lots of fun going on there arghh.. I am not able to make it because i have guests to bring around KL that sunday.
Interesting bene box project, I like how you guys being creative to decorate it and bring great smiles to the kids 🙂
Saw that how fun of the Bene Box Project you all have done. Miss Cafe Bene already been a while since I visit them.
Seem you guys had a lot of fun. What a meaningful project =)
i tried my first bingsu recently too, couldn’t really get use to some of the powdery types.. 🙂