Festive cheer for 45 low-income families
SINGAPORE – Forty-five low income families benefited today (Dec 21) from a pilot initiative by the Sembawang Community Club Youth Executive Committee (YEC) to distribute backpacks filled with stationery, books and other learning essentials for 91 school-going children.
SINGAPORE – Forty-five low income families benefited today (Dec 21) from a pilot initiative by the Sembawang Community Club Youth Executive Committee (YEC) to distribute backpacks filled with stationery, books and other learning essentials for 91 school-going children.
National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan joined the YEC and other community volunteers this morning in visiting some of the families at their homes in Zone B of the Sembawang Constituency. The volunteers also visited homes in Zones E, F, G, H and K.
Sembawang CC YEC chairperson Gillian Goh, 24, who led the project said that it was to “spread festive cheer and at the same time expose the youth to the needs of the lower income group”.
She added that most of the children who received the backpacks, with contents donated by members of the community, came from families which consisted of single parents, parents with serious illnesses, or were living with their elderly grandparents.