Yvonne Ng, a Year 4 medical student, and Terrence Hui from the National University of Singapore Medical Chapter organized a family fund-raising dinner for Operation Smile Singapore! Yvonne shares about the event with us:
"They say that charity begins at home, and we took the idea quite literally. Our families usually hold dinner parties for the usual aunty-uncle catch up session and where the kids get to run about or catch up on the latest gossip at school. Too painfully aware of the 30-70 rule and what happens to most of the money that is being fund-raised on a 'public' arena, we had decided early on that when we held an event for Operation Smile, all the donations must definitely be able to be directed to our overseas missions. Terrence and I felt it was an opportune moment to raise awareness for the Operation Smile organization's cause at one of these dinner sessions, and the response we got was a true blessing! We started off with a simple sharing session on what OpSmile was really about, some had heard about it via the radio, while others were clueless and were more than happy to let us have our take on it. What really stole their hearts then was the short video screening on 'Lulu' and the many others that Mr Justyn had created. A week later, many of my uncles emailed me on how to direct their donations! We were really happy and encouraged by the response to our simple effort and we would most definitely be doing many more of these screenings whenever a host allows us to open our traps at their dinners!
"They say that charity begins at home, and we took the idea quite literally. Our families usually hold dinner parties for the usual aunty-uncle catch up session and where the kids get to run about or catch up on the latest gossip at school. Too painfully aware of the 30-70 rule and what happens to most of the money that is being fund-raised on a 'public' arena, we had decided early on that when we held an event for Operation Smile, all the donations must definitely be able to be directed to our overseas missions. Terrence and I felt it was an opportune moment to raise awareness for the Operation Smile organization's cause at one of these dinner sessions, and the response we got was a true blessing! We started off with a simple sharing session on what OpSmile was really about, some had heard about it via the radio, while others were clueless and were more than happy to let us have our take on it. What really stole their hearts then was the short video screening on 'Lulu' and the many others that Mr Justyn had created. A week later, many of my uncles emailed me on how to direct their donations! We were really happy and encouraged by the response to our simple effort and we would most definitely be doing many more of these screenings whenever a host allows us to open our traps at their dinners!
Congratulations to Yvonne and Terrence for raising S$6500 from this simple and meaningful event!
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