With this year’s theme on Volunteerism, we set out on this project with a few new ideas in our pocket.
We divided our project into 3 parts - collection of provisions and essentials for the residents of Swami Home, a visit to Swami Home to perform for and play games with the residents and finally, partnering with the Marsiling Yew Tee Town Council for community clean-ups.
- Collection & packing of provisions and care-packs for Swami Home Residents
We reached out to all our parents to ask for their support in donating items such as milk powder, biscuits, noodles, Milo, oil etc.
In addtion, our teachers pooled together to raise funds to purchase daily essentials such as toothbrushes, toothpaste and towels. Our children from the PG’s to the K2’s helped to pack the items into individual care packs for the elderly. They also decorated cards for each care package.
- Visit to Swami Home
We began the day bright and early carrying all the items collected to the bus that would take us to Swami Home. Thankfully, we had lovely parents who helped us to carry the heavier items up the bus.
Our children put up dance performances for the residents to enjoy and later engaged them with games that they had prepared beforehand.
Before we left, the children then distributed the care packages they had packed and prepared.
- Community cleanup
The final part to our SSDB project was to volunteer our time to keep our neighbourhood clean. Over the course of a month, the nursery, K1 and K2 children went to different playgrounds in the vicinity to cleanup the area. They worked with the neighbourhood cleaners to pick up rubbish and dried leaves, helping to contribute to a cleaner and greener neighbourhood.
Overall, this SSDB project was a fulfilling one for all of us at Active Learners.
The children learnt to volunteer their time and effort towards doing good - giving back to society and what it meant to be responsible and caring citizens.
