Let's Do Our Part For The Community !

We have been invited by Paya Lebar Kovan YEC to assist in this year's City of Sharing, which will be held on 18th Jan 2009. Members interested to do your part for the community, do let me know.

Below is a repost of the post from PLK YEC's blog.

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With the news of the recent economy downturn still ringing in one's ears, one might recall the many news of how many charities failed to achieve their targets and having to dip into their kitty to make sure their beneficiaries' needs are made.

Here at City of Sharing we are not that worried. Not because we have a lot of funds to activate to top up any shortfall in the collection effort; but because we have seen first hand and close up of the generosity of the average Singapore Heartlanders, from the old auntie who had been having bread for a week, so that she can give some canned food to us (initially, we did not want to take as we felt that she would need them more, but she's very insistent and told us that her efforts will be wasted if we never take them) and to the father, together with his son and daughter whom came over from NTUC, bringing us 'freshly bought' canned food. We Thank You. No words of gratitude could express our thanks, and it is this kind of generosity and kindness that made us wanted to organise City Of Sharing year after year.

City of Sharing will also not be possible is not for the hard work and efforts put in by the volunteers whom among them knocked on more than 22,000 doors (that's about 125 doors per volunteers), climbed up more than 450 blocks of flags and gathered 22,500 items of canned food and dry rations. Someone once told me that "Volunteers are not paid, not because they are Worthless, but because they are PRICELESS."

To contribute to this effort, in terms of monetary (you can buy canned food / dry rations before hand) or in terms of sweat and blood (join us as a Volunteer !), just drop us an email at kovanyec@gmail.com leaving us your name, T-shirt size and contact number and we will get back to you.

This year, City of Sharing will be organised on 18th Jan 2009, just a week away from Chinese New Year, a period of joy and happiness. We hope that thru our efforts, we can bring joy and happiness to the not so fortunate. So let us work hand in hand again to do this, and let us prove once again that Singapore is a City of Sharing.

Before I sign off, allow me to show you our previous City of Sharing videos and See You on the 18th Jan 2009.






- Never doubt that a small group of commited people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead