Hey guys,

Thanks for Coming down for this event, I sincerely hope all of you had enjoyed yourself. And a big thanks for people who donate some toys for them.

Credit to: Ranie (Photograher of the Day), Lay khean (Preparing for Present), Tong (Organiser), Sign off By JS (Manpower dept)

For those who attended including sub-com:

On behalf of MINDS and NYP CSC, we would like to thank you for taking your precious time to visit MINDS last sat.

We hope that the visit to MINDS had been a fulfilling one.One of the aim for NYP CSC is to find an organisation or place that members can volunteer on their own accord.Depending on your time and level of commitment.If you are keen to volunteer for MINDS on a permanent basis. Please do not heistate to email back to us.We will get in touch with the representative from MINDS for you.

We look forward to see you again on 25th for the children's home visit.

Regards
Tong

Hi everyone (:

We just had an event yesterday with the MINDS.
It may be short but yet was a tiring day.

The Success of the event:



We really very impressive with all our volunteers as everyone were active themselves all around the school and trying to understand the condition of the trainees and the volunteers. We thought that all the volunteers will be scare of befriends with these MINDS.

We experienced the task of those MINDS volunteers’ jobs and their difficulties. Although I personally feel that we did not really put in enough afford to help them, however, I think we ready did our best. As we all know that helping other is always not an easy tasks and it is never an easy tasks.

The first thing, we were shock about was the age of the volunteers. Their age was ranging from secondary to 20 plus, almost all of them were teenager. We all were very impress with their spirit. They are willing to spend their weekends bonding together with the MINDS which I say that they are “rare” kinds of teenagers.

On the other hand, we also quite impress by all our volunteers especially, Grace and Tong with really put in their heart and soul, and really wanted to help them. Everyone was trying to participate every activity that was being held and get themselves bond together with them.

After this trip, we had change our ways of thinking and hopefully this help us to experience, learn and improve if we want to create another event like this.


Some personal thoughts and learning from the members:

[" I personally admired the volunteers, because those people have special needs and it is very tough to cater to all of their needs."

["Once you get to know them, you will realise they are just normal humans with feelings."

["I didn't waste my trip coming down here, its an valuable lesson.”

["We learned how to interact with them, how to be at the same level with them and how to have an enjoyable time with them."

["I interact with them and tried to be comfortable. I realised that they are not different from normal people at all. They are just people that needed empathy, means the touch of compassion."

Currently, there are not enough volunteers for MINDS and we seriously hope that some of you would make an effort to go down to one of the MINDS centre and help out . If you are really interested, talk to us. We felt that we should build a long term relationship with them.
We might also organize another same event too in the future.

For more info on how you can help out -> http://www.minds.org.sg/

By: Manpower Dept.

Hi all,

NYP CSC is recruiting 20 volunteers for MINDS in Bktg for an orientation visit.

Note that only Maximum of 20 volunteers will be required in this event.

The scope of the event is to introduce members to the organisation structure of Minds Bktg following by some interaction lessons (such as games, art and crafts) they can participated in. The objectives are to allow NYP CSC members to understand the operation of Minds BKTG as well as interaction with needy with intellectual disability. This will also introduce new members to another area of volunteer works that they might be interested in.

A short brief introduction of MINDSMINDS MYG (Serving Persons with Intellectual Disability), formerly known as MINDS Youth Group (MYG) is the subsidiary voluntary wing of the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS). We are a community of people who volunteer weekly to interact with and teach life skills to persons with intellectual disability (IDs) or trainees as we call them.

Please send your particular to Me (JS) if you wish to join for this event. I need your:

Name
admin no.
contact no.
E-mail.

Application START ON FIRDAY (12/6)@ 00 00 HRS
Deadline: This BEFORE SATURDAY (13/6) @ 00 00HRS
*This is to let you check if you have more time to check if you available for it.
*Once selected, no redrawing unless otherwise.

If you are keen to go do reply this email! Same goes to all it is first come first serve basis.
We do think that we are not superior to them in any ways, hence do take them as your clients when you are in MINDS that someone who are less fortunate.

The meeting venue will be at as follows:

Location No: 1b Leng Kong Lima(10min walk from Kembangan MRT)

Date/Time: 20 June ONLY!!! from 2.pm to 5pm

Gathering Point (for Volunteers): Kembangan MRT, 2pm

* Note that transportation is not provided

Since we are going there as guest so we will be expecting NO LATE COMERS !
2pm to 2.10pm is the grace period.

Have a nice day!
Regards
NYP CSC COMMITTEE

Date: 25 june 2009
Time: 8.30am to 12pm

Since we are rendering a service to others, it is therefore no late- comers are allowed.
830am to 840am will be the grace period.

Scope
The visit to Perpatis Home will be for an interaction cum cleaning session for the home. 50 volunteers will be required in this event with half of the members to assist in cleaning the backyard as requested by the home. The other group will be playing games (soccer and captain ball) with about 30 children aged between 7 to 16.

A brief background of perpatis home
A voluntary welfare organisation that has been providing social, educational and welfare services to the community since the early 70's. Over the years, PERTAPIS has grown and changed its outlook to adapt to a globalising city. It has ventured into new frontiers, like setting up social enterprises to be relevant to the current social issues. It is still exploring new horizons to provide wider opportunities in the arena of social services in Singapore.
Do note that we are expecting 50 volunteers so it will purely based on first come first serve basis. Any students who signed up and want to backup during last minute; have to prior notice by 3 days.

Thanks
Message by Owen
President of CSC