Together alongside the sort people of Gumtree, I was honoured to live component subdivision of their corporate social responsibleness (CSR) project, “The Giving Tree”.
We spent a lovely afternoon connecting alongside the children in Children’s Aid Society’s Melrose Home, as well as it was an afternoon good spent interacting alongside the lovely kids. Here nosotros are!
About Gumtree Singapore
Gumtree was founded inward 2000 every bit a community site inward London to aid Australians, New Zealanders as well as South Africans observe a job, a house to remain as well as everything else needed to settle in, including slice of furniture as well as novel friends. The Gumtree spirit remains cheerfully local as well as filled with passion. The powerfulness of the platform is the powerfulness to fulfill the center demand of finding immediate value across a attain of categories, peculiarly inward housing, jobs, goods as well as services. It’s immediately the leading classifieds site inward the U.K, Australia, South Africa as well as Singapore, alongside a high-profile presence every bit good inward Hong Kong, New Zealand as well as Poland.
In Singapore, Gumtree has over 600,000 unique visitors as well as over 10 ane G m page views every
month, almost 170,000 alive listings as well as over 6,000 novel listings per day. Globally, the website attracts fourteen ane G m unique visitors every month, boasting 4.5 ane G m live listings, to a greater extent than than 200,000 novel listings per solar daytime – a triple-digit year-on-year growth, as well as closed to 1.5 billion page views per month.
For to a greater extent than details, delight see http://www.gumtree.com.sg/
Advantages of using Gumtree
Trading goods on classifieds websites like Gumtree is easy. People tin shipping service an item for sale – gratuitous of accuse – inward but a few slow steps without requiring sign-ups, making the procedure elementary as well as cost-effective; whilst buyers bask the repose of search as well as uncovering of whatever item which is accessible online, 24/7. Users tin every bit good purchase as well as sell on-the-go with Gumtree’s mobile apps available on iOS as well as Android.
Through this project, Gumtree hopes to encourage the spirit of volunteering as well as giving dorsum to the club that nosotros attention almost as well as I was glad to create some beautiful memories together alongside the children.
About Children’s Aid Society – Melrose Home
Formed inward 1902, Melrose Home takes inward children from dysfunctional families as well as plant closely alongside the Ministry of Social as well as Family Development (MSF). The dwelling receives 30% donation from the government, as well as 70% from world as well as corporates.
· Melrose Home has xl children below 12 (boys as well as girls), five teen boys as well as nineteen teen girls
· Melrose Home lately built a novel teens fly as well as volition live able to have got inward some other xvi teens
· Corporates create CSR projects alongside the dwelling yesteryear conducting activities at the dwelling or yesteryear organising excursions
The Children’s Aid Society’s Melrose Home will live organizing a Fund-Raising Dinner on the 25th July 2014, 7pm at Standard Mandarin Orchard. If you lot are from an organization or am able to get together a grouping to host ane tabular array (up to 10 pax), priced at $3000 each, I would strongly encourage you lot to come upward frontwards as well as back upward this charitable cause. The shape tin live downloaded HERE. For to a greater extent than enquiries, pls contact Melrose Home at 64665758
Other forms of donations are every bit good much appreciated as well as you lot tin observe out how over HERE
Alright let's motion on to the 1st activeness of the day- Paint Your Own Flowerpot!
Each kid was given a ready of Paint Your Own Flowerpot kit that consists of a clay pot, a bundle of seeds as well as instructions, a brush as well as palette, as well as a mini shovel. We, every bit facilitators distributed the colors for the children as well as but mingled alongside them.
**( To protect the privacy of the children, their faces were non captured, therefore you lot volition alone encounter the volunteers' faces. All photos courtesy of the sort PR folks, many thanks.)
Here are the completed products! Pretty bloom pots yesteryear the lovely kiddos
Next nosotros had two telematches alongside the kids. They were carve upward into iii groups led yesteryear me,Yvonne as well as Smith. Actually nosotros had a elementary task, the kids were the ones dashing as well as nosotros hoped they had fun, releasing their stored unloosen energy :)
First match- SNOW MAN ! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 plate of baking flour alongside a seat out of hidden Polo sweets were hidden. Each kid is dashed to pick out the hidden Polo sweets,(without using their hands) as well as ran dorsum to his/her teammates :D
My squad won the outset game!
s game- FILLED THE BOTTLE. At the terminate of the reverse side, at that topographic point volition live a pail of water. Each kid is required to have got a punctured plastic loving cup as well as ran to the pail of H2O to collect H2O inward the cup.
They as well as so ran to their leader, Yours Sincerely here, as well as poured into my huge empty bottle.
them. The squad that fills the huge bottle alongside H2O outset wins.
Yvonne's squad won for the s match.
Our final activeness for the solar daytime was to allow the kids filled upward their painted pots alongside soil as well as seeds.
Time for makan!! Happy Meal for the children + loving cup corn ( the healthier alternative of course)
And these were the gifts nosotros brought for the children at Melrose Home, courtesy of Gumtree.
The fourth dimension spent alongside the kids was brusk as well as though nosotros powerfulness non have got made much of an touching for them, I promise sincerely they had some fun times alongside us. I promise nosotros tin have got the jeopardy to supply as well as non terminate off alongside but a ane fourth dimension off volunteering. It's definitely non an slow task for the principal to run the dwelling everyday as well as the children tin live a handful to handle. Not all kids are an angel as well as to care alongside their always bursting energies, is definitely non an slow task. Giving my salute to the staff as well as volunteers working alongside Melrose Home. They deserve our utmost honour for their commitment.
I am actually thankful for the chance to live alongside Melrose dwelling as well as thank you lot to Gumtree as well as PR companionship for the warm invitation. It's the smallest I tin to contribute.
Here's a flick alongside the awesome people I met.
( ** With no utilization of selfie-stick. Awesome skills yesteryear Smith. Gotta acquire this ^^)
Have a lovely Lord's Day ^_^