Christmas Party & Eye Screening for Senior Citizens – Yishun Constituency
Date – 5th December 2009 ( Sat )
Venue – Block 701B, Yishun Ave 5
Time – 10am – 5pm
Organizer & Host – Rotary Club of Sentosa
Guest of Honour – Minister of Law and 2nd Minister of Home Affairs, Mr K.Shanmugam
Participating Organizations and Companies
1. Singapore Women’s Association
2. Orchard Hotel
3. Sima Resources Pte Ltd
4. ERC Institute
5. University of New South Wales Alumni
6. Equity Trust ( Singapore ) Ltd
7. Khong Guan Biscuit Manufacturer (S) Ltd
8. Ken Life Corporation Pte Ltd
9. KMS California
10. Joy Centre
Objectives of Event
To bring Christmas cheer to 150 senior Citizens in Yishun with a buffet lunch served by more than 60 volunteer members from various participating organizations. The buffet lunch is specially catered and sponsored by the Orchard Hotel with so many dishes that it is probably better than most hotels standard buffet dishes.
There will also be an eye screening for the 150 senior citizens to be professionally conducted and managed by PP Dr Khoo Chong Yew from the Raflles Medical Hospital and Dr Annie Lai from the NUH Eye Department, assisted by staff from the Singapore VisionCare.
By involving the various organizations and companies, our Club hopes to instill in them the value of doing community service for the under privileged and the poor in our community.
By being our partners in this Christmas event, it is hoped that this will be the 1st step for these organizations to be more involved in future voluntary works organized by our Rotary Club of Sentosa. The above Organizations and Companies have also generously sponsored in cash and kind for the event and their senior management staff will be present to assist in serving the lunch to the senior citizens and to interact with them.
There will be a program to entertain the 150 senior citizens with the lighting up of the Christmas Tree by our Guest of Honour who will then present the Christmas Gift Goodie Bag containing several consumer and food items for all the 150 senior citizens present.
This is our 1st Community Outreach Project and it will certainly not be our last. Our many Sponsors and Corporate Partners have indicated their intention to partner us for such future projects. We will also be inviting other Organizations to be our partners that will allow us to organize such projects on a larger scale.
CP Michael Quek
Rotary Club of SENTOSA