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January 27, 2012

Hi everyone! We are unfortunately still lacking many volunteers for our internal drive next week! :( If you could spare us an hour of your time, please sign up here! Of course, you're welcome to sign up for more than one slot, or additional slots if you'd already signed up previously! The more volunteers we have, the more funds we can raise to help people with disabilities travel to the SPD Ability Centre regularly, where they will receive work, training, and company. Your help is very much appreciated!!

(For more details, please scroll down to the post right below this one!)

January 24, 2012

Hi everyone! We hope you're enjoying your Chinese New Year!

We're looking for volunteers for our internal drive in NUS from 31 Jan to 2 Feb! We'll be raising funds and awareness for SPD's Transport Subsidy Fund. If you'd like to help out, please sign up for any 1-hour slot(s) at your preferred location (FASS, Science, Business or Engineering).

Click here to sign up! More details are provided below:

January 20, 2012

Today we celebrated Chinese New Year at DAC! Although the rain outside was heavy, we did not let that dampen our spirits. We started today's Beneficiary Visit with a very festive sing-a-long session of Chinese New Year songs. Some clapped along, some sang heartily, and some even danced!

Next we gave out Bingo sheets in red packets. Many lucky winners today! And for the clients that stayed a little longer, we made Chinese New Year decorations together using red packets. And everyone received a special Chinese New Year goodie bag before they left for home for the upcoming Chinese New Year break!

We hope today's visit brought some Chinese New Year festive cheer to our volunteers and the clients at DAC. We would also like to thank the volunteers today for making your way down to SPD today, especially in spite of the heavy rain! You guys are amazing!

Please do join us again for our finale visit on 20th Feb - let's end our last visit with a bang! We will also be recruiting volunteers for our internal drive in NUS, where we will raise funds and awareness in aid of SPD's Transport Subsidy Fund. More details to come soon!

We would also like to announce that we will be holding external drives in two shopping malls this year: Heartland Mall (near Kovan MRT station) and Hougang Mall (near Hougang MRT station). Thanks to both Heartland Mall and Hougang Mall for sponsoring their mall space for us to conduct our external drives!

Besides our venue sponsors, we would like to thank our 7 sponsors for sponsoring cash/items for Signature Love Project IX. They are PUB, Tote Board, Simple Sprees, Boxystuff, Sundra, 77th Street and AXA. Do take a look at our sponsors page and visit their websites!

SLP IX wishes everyone a happy Chinese New Year!

January 16, 2012

Hi all! Thanks for your support and interest!
We've closed the registration for CNY Beneficiary visit.

If you couldn't join us this time around, we still have the following volunteering opportunities coming up:

• Internal drives
• External drives
• Finale beneficiary visit!

Keep a lookout for our updates!

January 12, 2012

Hi everyone!

We're now recruiting volunteers for our next Beneficiary Visit on 20th Jan 2012. We'll be celebrating Chinese New Year with the beneficiaries! Do join us in creating more wonderful memories and happiness in their lives! :D If you had joined us in our Phase 1's visits, all the more you should sign up again for more memories! (I'm sure the beneficiaries miss you as much as you miss them).

Click here to sign up! More details are provided below:

January 12, 2012

Phase 1 of Beneficiary Visits to SPD for Signature Love Project IX has concluded! On the 5th, 6th and 9th January we spent 3 fun-filled days with the clients of SPD's Day Activiy Centre (DAC) and our volunteers. We played games like Bingo and Musical Balls, and also engaged the clients in craft work like making macaroni necklaces and musical shakers!

We'll let the pictures speak for themselves:

5th Jan 2012

6th Jan 2012

9th Jan 2012

We would like to thank all the volunteers for joining us in our programmes for the visits on 5th Jan, 6th Jan and 9th Jan 2012. We hope that your experiences volunteering with us at SPD have been as meaningful as they have been to us. Thank you for your support!

The upcoming visit will be on 20th Jan 2012 (Chinese New Year beneficiary visit) to celebrate CNY with the clients. More details will be released soon!

January 03, 2012

SLP IX Organizing Committee is hard at work in preparation for our fund raising drives and beneficiary visits!

Click on "Sign Up" above to sign up for our beneficiary visits on the 5th, 6th and 9th January!

Or visit our fund raising booths:

Internal Drive
Business - 31st January
Engineering - 1st February to 2nd February
FASS, Science - 31st January to 2nd February

External Drive
11th February to 12th February

About Signature Love Project

Signature Love Project is NUSCSC’s annual fund-raising project, targeted at helping different beneficiaries every year through raising funds and awareness. This is the 9th year that this project is running and our adopted beneficiary is the Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD). What makes NUSCSC’s Signature Love Project different from other fund-raising projects are the (i) Signatures and our (ii) Love.

1. For a minimum donation of $2, donors are entitled to leave their little ‘declarations of love’ in the form of Signature Items, which will be presented to the beneficiaries as a token of our Love and concern.
2. In addition, we seek to promote interaction between our volunteers and beneficiaries. By engaging them in meaningful and interactive activities, we endeavour to bring a difference to the lives of the beneficiaries, as well as to promote a community spirit within our volunteers.

The theme for this year is ‘Disabled, Enabled’, which summarises SLP IX’s objective of helping people with disabilities to gain their rightful place in the society through the support of the public. The Signature Items are mini wheelchair flags, on which donors can pen down their ‘declarations of love’. Donors can then proceed to placing the Signature Items into a miniature city model which represents Singapore. Through this small gesture, donors pledge their support for integrating the disabled community into our society. Once the drives have concluded, these Signature Items will be presented to SPD as a memorabilia.

This year, the targeted amount to be raised for SPD is $10 000. The funds raised will go towards SPD’s Transport Subsidy Fund, which will help relieve the financial burden on the beneficiaries by subsidising their daily transportation to Day Activity Centre (DAC) in SPD, where they can pick up new skills and participate in enriching activities.

We hope that through our little efforts, we would be able to raise public awareness of these beneficiaries who may have been neglected by society, and hence, enable them a place within society.

The Society for the Physically Disabled

The Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) promotes the interest, welfare and advancement of people with disabilities, in particular working in partnership with people with physical disabilities to develop their potential to the fullest so that they can be self-reliant and independent.

The following are some examples of SPD's services.

• Clients under the SPD vocational training programme undergo on-the-job training with the goal of attaining the various competencies needed to find gainful employment;
• Support for children and youth with physical disabilities, or whose parent(s) have physical disabilities, are provided under different services to maximise their potential by looking into their physical, intellectual and social development in the hope that these children and youth will become self-reliant when they grow up, and contribute back to society;
• SPD offers quality community-based rehabilitation services for all age groups;
• Assessment and training in the use of Assistive Technology to help people with physical disabilities overcome the limitation of their disabilities so as to enable them to perform activities of daily living;
• IT Training: the Infocomm Accessibility Centre enables people with disabilities to acquire infocomm technology skills and, ultimately, enhance their employment opportunities.

In addition, SPD’s Day Activity Centre (DAC) provides day care for people with physical and multiple disabilities, with the aims of maximising their potential to be independent in their activities of daily living, as well as providing their caregivers and family members with respite and giving them the opportunity to continue working without having to worry about caring for them.

SPD also offers specially-adapted transportation services for their clients who may face difficulties using public transport when travelling to and fro the centre and their homes.

For more information, you may visit www.spd.org.sg.

Sponsors

We thank the following companies and organizations for their kind sponsorship:

Venue Sponsors

If you are willing to sponsor us in our charity project, please contact the marketing cell at signaturelove.mktg@gmail.com and your company logo will appear here and on other publicity materials!

Volunteer With Us!

We're looking for volunteers for our internal drive to help raise funds and awareness for SPD's Transport Subsidy Fund. You can help us out by signing up for any 1-hour slot(s) at your preferred location (FASS, Science, Business or Engineering).

Please refer to the details below!

Click here to sign up!