Educational Outing with Children from Care Corner

Project Name:

NEC staff volunteers become guardians for children from underprivileged family

Project Date:

6 September 2002

Where:

Singapore Science Centre

Partner:

Care Corner, Toa Payoh

Participants:

41 Employees from 4 NEC Subsidiaries in Singapore (NEC Business Coordination Centre, NEC Electronics, NEC Solutions Asia Pacific & NEC Semiconductors)

Project Description:

35 NEC staff volunteers were paired up with 35 children from Care Corner Student Care Centre for an educational and entertaining tour. The children and volunteers were pampered with exciting programmes of a virtual ride in “Dino Land”, a visual voyage through the internal organs of human body and an eye-opening tour of Singapore Science Centre to learn about the many amazing facts of the universe.
NEC companies in Singapore has identified Care Corner Student Care Centre as its beneficiary for this community project for children from underprivileged family. This project is also part of the programme for President’s Challenge in conjunction with the Singapore Small Kindness Movement Week from 1 to 8 September 2002.

Group photo outside the Omnimax Theatre		Tea Break at McDonald’s

Inside the Science Centre		The children were having fun at the McDonald’s party games.