Annual Karang Guni Canvassing! Huat ah!

The beginning of the year is usually marked with crazy celebrations, thinking of New Year resolutions and…arghz….spring cleaning…It’s the time of the year when people will want to throw out all the old newspapers and used clothes stacked up in their houses somewhere. So on the 9^th January 2010, for some residents of Bishan, Camp Out Reach and RSPHI Committee members are there to give them a hand.

 Just a SMALL amount of what we have collected! Haha!

That’s right!!! It’s the annual joint Karang Guni conducted by COR and RSPHI as part of their individual canvassing efforts. In other words, the profits we earn from this Karang Guni will serve to subsidise a portion of the fees for the upcoming participants of COR’11!!!

Most importantly, this is another good opportunity to get to see new faces and to know more people. We were split into 8 groups, each comprising a mix of members from the various RSPHI centres and COR. For some of the more fortunate groups, we are privileged to have some of our HI friends to come down and help us with the Karang Guni. Yay! Extra Manpower!!!

Eirene (one of our COR’11 committee members) having fun!!!

Initially, we did door-to-door flyer distribution on the 2^nd January to inform the residents of our upcoming Karang Guni session. Subsequently, on the 9^th January 2010, we had the actual Karang Guni.

Most of the residents were generous to contribute to our cause and left us whatever they could. Even though there were some hiccups along the way, such as other unlicensed Karang Guni men going around to “snatch our business”, we still managed to collect quite a number of things.

Although we had to constantly climb up and down the HDB buildings and carry a lot of heavy items, we were very positive and enthusiastic and didn’t let our fatigue drag us down.

At the end of the day, when we all gathered under the void deck of a HDB flat for a short debrief, there were a lot of satisfaction and relief and everyone had smiles on their faces. We were all very excited that this year’s Karang Guni was much faster and successful than the previous year’s.

Our whole Karang Guni Team! Good job everyone!!!

A very good job done by all the participants and not to mention the Business Managers, who have spent so much effort coordinating and organising this event such that it ran so smoothly. Kudos to everyone!!!

Jason, with a big smile on his face, very happy with our results! Plus Wen Jie (who looks very tired) but terping for all of us!

We ended off this fruitful day by having dinner at Manhattan Fish House in Junction 8!!!

But if you think money was the only thing we got from this event, you are wrong!!!
Everyone forged new friendships and learned more about the members from other portfolios within Welfare Services Club and some groups even got together one week later to have dinner outings! We may have only seen each other and worked with each other for 2 days but the experiences and fun time that we had bonded all of us even more.

So do watch out for future events and come join us!!!

Rewarding ourselves at the end of a tiring and fruitful day

-From CGLs