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41 staff volunteers from iFriend, one of the teams under
Singapore Pools' Staff Community Programme, iShine celebrated Dumpling Festival
with 100 senior citizens from the Society for the Aged Sick on 1 June 2019.
Our iFriend volunteers partnered with community partner, SHINE
Children and Youth Services, to bring festive cheer to everyone present with
their lion dance performances. On top of the teens’ performances, the elderly
residents were also entertained by song performances from Faith Music Centre.
The programme closed with volunteers distributing nostalgic
Singapore snacks which the senior citizens reminisced nostalgic memories during
their younger days. The highlight of the event was feasting of bite-sized
dumplings where the event area was filled with laughter as our volunteers, who had
become good friends with the residents, spent time catching up with the elderly.
Team iFriend has been volunteering and bringing comfort to our
elderly friends at the Society for the Aged Sick since 2003. SAS is one of the
multiple adopted charities under the iShine programme, which provides
residential and respite services to elderlies in need of daily nursing care
and/or assistance in daily living. Most of SAS residents are made up of
vulnerable elderlies from low-income families who need community support.