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TEN TONS 2007





BA CARES is having a upcoming activity that needs a lot of your help!

Garangunee collection has always been BA Cares forte and they would like to capitalize on their experience to aim for a more ambitious target – TEN TONS -an island wide newspaper collection while creating a Guinness World Record.

Event Day: 14 July 2007 Saturday
Time: 9am to 1.30pm
Meeting Time: 830 am
Areas: All over Singapore, register to choose your favourite destination (refer to poster)
Collection Items: newspaper, used electronic goods and clothes from residents and corporations.

The extensiveness of this project would require many volunteers who we hope to recruit from NP, secondary schools and other keen organizations. Funds raised will go to selected Voluntary Welfare Organizations to fortify their efforts in various meaningful causes.

With this project, the aims are:
Do our part for the environment
Inspire the public to do their bit for the environment
Engage youths in community involvement
Support the various efforts of VWOs
Encourage volunteerism
Create the Guinness World Record
Develop the potential of future leaders in entrepreneurship
Character building skills for students participation
Enrich ourselves in various skills such as volunteer management

The list of nominated VWOs that have been selected to be beneficiaries are as follow:

1. Make a Wish Foundation
2. Movement for Intellectually disabled of Singapore (MINDS)
3. Alzheimer's Disease Association
4. Assisi Home and Hospice
5. Association for Persons with Special Needs
6. Autism Association (Singapore)
7. Dover Park Hospice
8. Fei Yue Community Services
9. Presbyterian Community Services
10. Spastic Children's Association of Singapore
11. Dyslexia Association of Singapore
12. St Luke Hospital Ltd

CCA Points will be awarded to all participants. As attached are posters for TEN TONS.

To join in this event, please participate as part of your CCA group. Alternatively, you may contact us @
cca_pass@np.edu.sg

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