Homerun I
1.Fundraising
a.Selling Food
i. YaKun
ii. Finger food
iii. Old Changkee
b.Photography
i. Taking professional shots for namecard
c.T-shirt
i. Selling t-shirts in school

2.Local Projects
a.Blessings in a bag
b.Sungei Buloh Wetland CIP

3.Facilitation session
a.Interview/selection(2nd/3rd Week)
b.Introduction to YEP + Setting groundrules/expectations + Goals/Objectives(4th Week)
c.Cambodian Movie/Make a Stand game/ Human knot(5th week)
d.Cultural lessons/Language(After exams)
e.Final Briefing(Prior to departure)

Expedition
1.Cambodia (December)
a.Water filtration
b.Kindergarten

Homerun II
1.Local Project(???)

Meeting with Blessings In A Bag

We wish we'd taken a picture with the Blessings In A Bag (Blessings, for short) team during our recent meeting with them at Starbucks, Wisma Atria!

Nevertheless, we had a fruitful discussion and found that their work can be aligned to our YEP project. The people in attendance as follows:

Waterloo - Minghui, Victor and Diana

Blessings - Emily Teng and Darren Lin

Emily and Darren are two gungho souls who have contributed much of their time, money and effort in ensuring that their cause is able to touch the lives of hundreds of needy children overseas. They solicit for donations of school items, hygiene products and clothes locally, and obtain the generous support of travellers going overseas to ship the 'blessings in bags' to underprivileged, abused and medically-ill children across Asia.

Through the meeting, we discovered that the role of ambassadors that Blessings wished for us to take up would/might require the following actions from us:

1. Conduct a campaign in NTU to raise awareness of the Blessings In A Bag cause
2. Liaise with the school to obtain permission to raise funds and collect donations for Blessings
3. Liaise with the International Student Centre so that exchange students leaving the country can donate their items to Blessings
4. Liase with the halls to seek approval to place the Blessings donation collection bins in their halls

We also got to know about other programmes conducted by Blessings, such as their Scribbly Friends movement (http://scribblyfriends.org/)

We will be making a trip down to their headquarters soon to know more about what they do, so hopefully we'll remember to take a picture then!

Details are in the making, so I'll just leave you with Darren's email as a summary of the things to come :)

Dear Ming Hui, Diana & Victor

On behalf on the Blessings in a Bag Team, we would like to thank you for taking your precious time for the sharing today. We really appreciate the kind gesture. ^_^

As mentioned this afternoon, we'll be sending you a copy of our (1) detailed ambassador programme proposal, as well as a (2) list of donation items we need before this week draws to an end. We'll additionally try to draft a (3) publicity programme to raise Blessings in a Bag's awareness amongst NTU students if time permits. (So much to do, so little time lol)

Hopefully, things will take off from there.

It has been a pleasure meeting you peeps and stay in touch!

Cheers,
Darren :)