December is the season of giving. To put that into action, 20 of us put in half day's of manual labour at Food from the Heart (read more about them here: https://foodheart.org/). A colleague even brought his two teenage daughters.
Do you know that more than 16,800 supermarket trolleys worth of otherwise-discarded food are donated to needy families per year? To me that's a really jaw dropping number. My salute goes towards the generous donors, volunteers and helpers for such laudable graciousness and kind! I think most of us are living largely-comfortable lives and are not well-informed of the needy families, school children and elderly who ask for not much but 3 meals, to spend a day outdoors or a simple cake to celebrate their birthdays.
Was glad to be able to put in my bit part. We sorted out 2 pallets of donated food and packed 2 pallets which will be distributed to centres in the neighbourhood. It's not much, but every bit counts. Every packet of rice, every sachet of milo, every tin of button mushrooms - they go towards filling the stomach of a hungry school kid or lonely senior citizen - and warming their hearts at the same time.
We can do more, Singaporeans!
Do you know that more than 16,800 supermarket trolleys worth of otherwise-discarded food are donated to needy families per year? To me that's a really jaw dropping number. My salute goes towards the generous donors, volunteers and helpers for such laudable graciousness and kind! I think most of us are living largely-comfortable lives and are not well-informed of the needy families, school children and elderly who ask for not much but 3 meals, to spend a day outdoors or a simple cake to celebrate their birthdays.
Was glad to be able to put in my bit part. We sorted out 2 pallets of donated food and packed 2 pallets which will be distributed to centres in the neighbourhood. It's not much, but every bit counts. Every packet of rice, every sachet of milo, every tin of button mushrooms - they go towards filling the stomach of a hungry school kid or lonely senior citizen - and warming their hearts at the same time.
We can do more, Singaporeans!
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