Mid-Autumn Festival Photos!

It been awhile since the Mid Autumn Festival! I had received the photos and uploaded to our facebook! Hope everyone enjoyed this event! :D

Getai @ 28/8/10

It's been awhile since the Getai event! I finally received the photos that were taken during that event! :D

Here is some of the picture! More photos are available on our Facebook album!

Mid Autumn Festival Outing on 25 September 2010 (Updates)

Main Objective:
To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节）with the residents of CMH.

Event Highlights:
We will be bringing 20-25 residents to the Woodlands Waterfront.
Woodlands Waterfront - http://www.ura.gov.sg/woodlandswaterfront/

1630 Gather at CMH

1. Briefing (Day event as well as assignment of beneficiaries to volunteers)
2. Preparing hot drinks and cold drinks
   

1730 Arrival of bus and the ferrying of beneficiaries

1830 Games (with prizes)

1. 3 games to be played.

1900 Serving of snacks and drinks to beneficiaries.

1. Moon Cakes and other light snacks will be provided.

1920 Walking around the park with the beneficiaries (With Lantern)

2000 Home sweet home (Back to CMH)

Location:
Christalite Methodist Home → Woodlands Waterfront → Christalite Methodist Home

Additonal Details:
Dinner will be provided for volunteers.
We will be preparing goodies bag with biscuit, coffee, milo powder, cup noodles etc for the beneficiaries.
There will also be a sing along session slotted into the programme.

Time:
4.30pm to 8.30pm

**** How can you help?
Interested parties, please register with us at cmh.volunteer@gmail.com by 17 September 2010

ESN Carnival

Once again, I would like to thanks the volunteers that turn up on the ESN Carnival! :D The event was success! We hope both you and the elderly enjoyed this year carnival!

Hope to see you guys again in the next event!

More picture available on our Facebook profile!

Activities Update

Events organized by Heartwarmers.
(Internally and Externally)

Heartwarmers will be organizing the following activities:

(1) 28th August (Getai Performance)

Main Objective:
To celebrate the Hungry Ghost Festival (7th Month of the Chinese Lunar Calendar) with the residents of CMH

Event Highlights and volunteers support required:
We will be having,
- Getai (歌台）with a string of performances.
- Auction, bidding of items by the beneficiaries. - Requiring Volunteers to assist the beneficiaries with the bidding using ice-cream sticks..
Auction items (suggested) - watches, water bottles, cup noodles, coffee-mix packets, radio.

Location:
Christalite Methodist Home

Time:
1pm to 3.30pm

Extra Details:
Time Programme
1.00pm Arrival of volunteers CMH for a briefing
1.30pm Serving of tea break
1.40pm Special Dance Performance by student volunteers ("Nobody")
1.45pm Performance by 1st gig singers (4 songs)

• 风雨无阻
• 明明白白我的心
• 朋友（cantonese)
• 爱拼才会赢 (Hokkien)

1.55pm Auction
2.05pm Performance by 2nd gig singers (4 songs)

• 龙战骑士
• 星晴
• 月亮代表我的心
• 新不了情

2.20pm Auction
2.30pm Performance by 3rd gig singers (2 songs)

• 关怀方式
• 苯小孩

2.40pm Auction
2.50pm Finale - Singing by all volunteers

• 明天會更好
• 订做一个天堂

3.00pm End of Ge-tai

**** How can you help?
Assist the beneficiaries with the bidding during the auction using ice-cream sticks.
Assist in the serving of tea-break
Engage the residents in the whole session (clap and sing)
Interested parties, please register with us at cmh.volunteer@gmail.com by 22 August 2010

(2) 3rd & 4th September (Goodies bag packing)

Main Objective:
To assist with the packing of Goodies Bag for the less fortunate family which includes the visually handicapped, MINDS, hospice, many low income family and others.

Activity Highlight:
The activity is split into 2 parts:
1) Packing: There will be about 120 volunteers who will be assisting the packing of the goodies bag during daytime on Friday (3rd Sept). Extra help may be needed if the packing could not be finish during the day.
2) Loading: The goodies bag will have to be loaded onto vehicles on Saturday morning for distribution.

Location:
Henderson Community Club

Our (Heatwarmers) Involvement:
The target is to complete the whole packing during the day.
If however the packing could not be completed by then, we may need volunteers to help out with the packing after work.

**** How can you help?
Interested parties, please register with us at cmh.volunteer@gmail.com by 29 August 2010 so that we could prepare a backup list of volunteers to call up if the packing could not be completed. (We will call you all on the day itself if need arises)

(3) 25th Sept (Mid-Autumn Festival Outing)

Main Objective:
To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节）with the residents of CMH.

Event Highlights:
We will be bringing 20-25 residents to the Woodlands Waterfront.
Woodlands Waterfront - http://www.ura.gov.sg/woodlandswaterfront/

Location:
Christalite Methodist Home → Woodlands Waterfront → Christalite Methodist Home

Time:
4.30pm to 8.30pm

**** How can you help?
Interested parties, please register with us at cmh.volunteer@gmail.com by 5 September 2010 so that we could ensure sufficient volunteers are present during the event.

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External Event by external group:

(1) 11th September (Elderly Sector Network Carnival)

Elderly Sector Network (ESN) will be organizing an annual ESN carnival:

Main Objective:
To infuse a sense of togetherness as a community of volunteers serving the elderly sector and to provide an afternoon of beyond volunteering experience of fun, cheer and company to the elderly by the combined efforts of volunteers.

Background of Elderly Sector Network:
The objective of the Elderly Sector Network is to synergise, streamline and consolidate training/event-organising efforts between volunteer agencies of the same interest group. Focusing on the elderly sector, we hope to promote networking among the volunteer agencies to share and exchange ideas, resources and information. We hope to promote networking not only within the elderly sector but also to other sectors, through our inter-sector networking efforts. (Extracted from: http://www.elderlysectornetwork.blogspot.com/ )

Event Highlights:
Games and food stalls will be set up by volunteers from different home.
There will also be a mini-concert, as well as lucky draws for beneficiaries.

Location:
Yishun JC (However please take note that volunteers attached to the beneficiaries would be required to report to CMH)

Time:
2pm to 4.30pm

Our (Heartwarmers) involvement:
We will be setting up:
1) Food stall (Selling Tau Suan) - Requiring 4 students + 1 regular CMH volunteer to mann
2) Game stall (Pending Confirmation) - Requiring 4 students + 1 regular CMH volunteer to mann
3) 15 beneficiaries from CMH will be joining in the carnival - Requiring 20 to 25 volunteers
(For student volunteer, we will either pair you up with an adult of if we have insufficient manpower, we will have 2 students to be attached to a beneficiary)

What we hope to achieve:
We hope that through this event,
- It will encourage more interactions between our volunteers and the beneficiaries from CMH as well as with volunteers from the other volunteer groups.

**** How can you help?
Interested parties, please register with us at cmh.volunteer@gmail.com by 5 September 2010 so that we could ensure sufficient volunteers are present during the event.

Thank you!

On behalf of the community of the Dumpling Festival event, I would like to thank all volunteer for their attendance last Saturday! Thank you volunteers for working together to make this event a great success. :)







*More pictures of the event are available on our Facebook page*

Dumpling Festival Celebration!

On the coming 19 June 2010 we will be celebrating Dumpling Festival with the residents of CMH!

The theme of this event will be in the form of a Carnival, coordinated by Alvin.

We will be having four games stores for the residents to move their limbs and mind! What's more? They will be rewarded with ice cream sticks for their participation to play more games or exchange for wonderful prizes!

Snacks will be served during this event with dumplings and more! Of course, to bring up the atmosphere, we will be having a singing session on the stages!

Therefore, we need you, volunteers! To help out this event and make it a memorable one for you and the residents!
If you're interested please drop us an email @ cmh.volunteer@gmail.com

Brand new look!

It's been awhile since the last posting and I apologies for the lack of updates. Therefore, we present to you guys and the visitors our very first blogskin!

Graphics and coding was done by one of our fellow volunteer. I hope you guys will enjoy the new fresh look!

Anyway, stay tune for the coming updates on the activities! :D

Facebook Account

For our dear visitors and fellow volunteers, we had created a page on facebook for you all to add us at cmh.volunteer@gmail.com

Over there, you will find photos and video of our past and recent events that we had. Feel free to add us and browse at these images :D!

Future upcoming activities will be posted at there and details information will be on here!