On Sunday, August 19, 500 volunteers from SSA gathered in 35 teams of four to six persons and busied themselves with distributing food packs to some 300 families in the vicinity of Lengkok Bahru and Bukit Merah housing estates.
While busy with preparation for the Lunar New Year, 35 Soka Volunteer Group (SVG) members halted their chores to accompany 20 beneficiaries from the Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) on a joyous excursion to Chinatown on January 12th.
Despite the drizzle on 2 October, 300 members of SSA Regional Headquarters 6 (RHQ6) participated in the Mental Wellness Carnival held at the open field next to the Paya Lebar MRT station. This event was organised by Silver Ribbon (Singapore) to commemorate World Mental Health Day. The main activities of the event served to promote awareness of mental wellness and reduce prejudice against people with mental illness.
Responding to the request for exercise classes for senior citizens, six members of the Soka Volunteers Group took lessons at the Health Promotion Board to qualify as exercise trainers. With the new skills, these volunteers started an exercise class with 28 senior participants.
27 May 2011 was a memorable day for some 20 senior citizens and 10 members of the Soka Volunteers Group (SVG) coming together for the last time, after more than three months of weekly handicraft sessions. (See earlier report published in SSA Times issue 414, page 5) This last gathering saw the volunteers happily engaged themselves in the singing of sentimental Oldies in English, Mandarin and Cantonese to entertain their elderly friends. Everyone happily participated by clapping and humming along with the tunes.
While many of us shun the squeeze and messiness of Chinatown during the Chinese New Year season, 25 volunteers from the Soka Volunteers Group (SVG) took time off work and their busy schedule to accompany 20 beneficiaries from the Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) to Chinatown to soak up the spirit of the Chinese New Year on the 20th of January.
COMMUNICATIONS: “Learn-to-Serve and Serve-to-Learn” With the launch of Soka Ambassador Group, a total of 110 Soka Ambassador and representatives from the Soka Volunteers Group and
For the fourth year running, SSA partnered Esplanade—Theatres on the Bay and the Urban Redevelopment Authority for the annual Marina Bay Singapore Countdown Wishing Sphere
“Streetwise Run – Keeping Young Lives on Track” was held on July 4 2010. The event attracted a large crowd of runners, helpers and performers
On 18 April 2010, 140 members of Soka Volunteer Group (SVG) participated in the first ever full-day training course held since its formation 6 years
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