Project C.A.N. 2007

Hello think most of the people here exams over liao. ARE U ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO JUNE 11 NOW? haha. Anyway please allow me to do a bit of advertisement here. Paiseh to take up lots of space ha.


NUS Community Service Club is organizing PROJECT C.A.N. (Collection in Aid for the Needy) (http://can.nuscsc.net/) this coming July. For this project we will be trying to help our needy beneficiaries in the most direct way possible, by collecting food like canned food, rice and dried rations to be distributed to them, and we also hope to promote volunteerism among youths by making it a fun and meaningful event for all. This is a pretty large scale project, so we will be needing lots of volunteers. So please do come down to help out if you are free!

Some details about the project:

1. There are 3 phases altogether:

C.A.N COLLECT (15 July 2007, Sunday): Whole day event. Volunteers will be doing flat to flat canned food collection. We would have distributed flyers to these households beforehand, so some people would have already got the canned food ready to be collected, if not just have to knock on doors and try to persuade them to collect yay. Should be in Toa Payoh area.

C.A.N CHALLENGE (20-22 July 2007, Friday to Sunday): A 3 day event (Volunteers on 2 hour shifts) whereby booths will be set up outside supermarkets and volunteers to encourage shoppers to purchase food rations for donation. Locations unconfirmed yet.

C.A.N DISTRIBUTE (25 July 2007, Wednesday tentatively): Pretty self-explanatory right? Whole day event.

2. We will need quite a lot of volunteers for 15 July, so if you just want to sign up for one please choose this one. Of course if you are interested to do the rest can sign up also, alternatively can sign up at the end of CAN collect on 15 July.

3. FREE LUNCH AND FREE T-SHIRT! (courtesy of sponsors)

4. Anyone can help out, not just NUS students. Everyone can lend a hand to give back to society!

5. SENSE OF SATISFACTION (courtesy of donors)

6. If you can’t confirm, can still sign up, we will be calling you nearer the date to confirm attendance (no pressure one don’t worry)

Please support! Please sign up at the website (http://can.nuscsc.net/) or you can provide me with the following details if you are interested:

Matric No (for NUS students)
Handphone No
Email address
T-shirt size (as a reference I will be taking L, girls mostly take S or XS)
Food preferences (like no beef, vegetarian etc)
Dates you want to do (for Can Challenge, please indicate time you want to do)

Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Wei Chung


P.S. On a side note, there another project (Paint-A-Home, refer details below) on 2,3,9,10 June (1st 2 Saturdays and Sundays of June). Not exactly my business, but if you are interested, can give me your details also, or you can email to pah07vm@gmail.com or register directly on their website (http://paint.nuscsc.net/)

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Below is the mailer to all NUS students:

Dear all,

The following are two projects brought to you by NUS Students’ Community Service Club.

Do join us in this June and July in these projects to bring joy to others, make more new friends and make our semester break more meaningful!
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PROJECT C.A.N. 2007
Project C.A.N. 2007 is one of the special projects undertaken by the NUS Students' Community Service Club. The aim of this project is to appeal to the general public to lend a helping hand to our fellow needy Singaporeans, thereby promoting greater community bonding. Hence the theme "Collection in Aid of the Needy", or Project C.A.N. for short, has been used throughout the years.
Through this volunteering project, the public can choose to donate their canned food or dry rations during our collection drives consisting of both door-to-door collections, as well as passing us their generous donations directly through our collection booths.
Project C.A.N., now into its 4th year, was first started in 2004. This year, we hope to benefit 300 elderly and needy families located in Toa Payoh and Kim Keat, who are currently living at marginal levels and have difficulties in meeting their daily necessity needs.

JOIN US AS A VOLUNTEER AT:

C.A.N Collect: 15th July C.A.N Challenge: 20th-22nd July C.A.N Distribute: 25th July (Tentative)

C.A.N COLLECT: This will be a door-to-door collection of canned food and volunteers will be split into as many as 15 groups, with each group handling about 6-8 blocks of flats. We’ll be collecting from the central neighbourhood (Ang Mo Kio, Toa Payoh, Thomson) this year.

C.A.N CHALLENGE: This will be a joint effort between NUS Community Service Club and 3 NTUC Fairprice outlets. Booths will be set up at these 3 outlets, to challenge the public to donate canned food generously to benefit the elderly and needy, and at the same time bringing greater awareness to these people in the society.

C.A.N DISTRIBUTE: The final phase of our project - we hope to bring a beautiful conclusion to it all. We will go to the flats of our beneficiaries to distribute the canned food we have collected.

So what are you waiting for?
Just sign up for any of the day(s) to make a difference to the needy!

Come visit our website at
http://www.nuscsc.net/~can/ for more information and to sign up!
You can also contact Jasmine @ 96418891 or Jenny @ 90221319

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Paint-A-Home 2007

The annual NUS CSC Special Project Paint-A-Home is here! This year, we’ll be repainting the internal walls and refurbishing the Sree Narayana Mission Home for the Aged Sick, which is a 5 minutes walk from Yishun MRT station.

We need YOU
to add COLOURS to the elderly residents’ lives with a bright new coat of paint and with your enthusiasm!

Sign up as a VOLUNTEER for the painting works and volunteer-resident interaction!

So join us on

2nd, 3rd, 9th and 10th June(Sats and Suns)
9am-6pm

For more, email to pah07vm@gmail.com or call/sms Kit@90603080
2 meaningful projects proudly brought to you by NUS Students' Community Service Club!