Today seems an ordinary Sunday for most people, probably - another day of rest, another day of church, another day of enrichment activities, maybe the International Arctic Sea Ice Day. For the elderly residents of Blk 499 Tampines Drive 9, it is another day that they would be receiving the free lunchboxes; for Dedicated Locals' (DLs') Caring Community and Willing Hearts, it is another day of their lunchboxes distribution collaboration.
After an arduous journey of securing a good collaboration partner, arranging the logistics and manpower, sourcing for good locations to conduct this lunchboxes giveaway, liaising with Resident Volunteers to facilitate the process, and looking out for more volunteers to help out - the project took form finally!
We started with about 50 packs of lunchboxes for the needy and elderly residents in this estate, and about 3-4 volunteers. Today, we are giving out 70 boxes of lunches here, with almost double the number of volunteers that we used to have; and the numbers of both are still increasing steadily.
Not only is the project going on smoothly and successfully at Tampines Blk 499 here itself, DLs' Caring Community has also expanded the project over to 2 more estates at Yishun Blk 162 and Blk 701B respectively, sponsoring boxes of warm lunch to needy and elderly residents there well.
This marks a proud start for DLs' Caring Community and its members - Happy Monthsary for the Tampines LunchBox Giveaway Project - and may this program continue to grow, and blossom.
If you would like to be a part of this meaningful project - either in the capacity of a sponsor of supplies, or to volunteer your time, get in touch today at desmond@dlscc.com or our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/dlscaringcommunity?fref=ts
Thank you everyone for your support thus far!
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