Outing with the Intellectually Handicapped Children

Project Name:

President’s Challenge: An outing for intellectually handicapped children

Project Date:

10 September 2004

Where:

Singapore Botanic Gardens

Partner:

Moral Home for the Disabled

Participants:

28 employees from 6 NEC subsidiaries in Singapore ((NEC Business Coordination Centre, NEC Electronics, NEC Logistics, NEC Solutions Asia Pacific, NEC Tokin and NEC Semiconductors)

Project Description:

Moral Home for Disabled is a welfare organisation providing residential care, warmth and love to children with special needs, irrespective of their race, colour, creed and religion. To offer the children a breakaway from their daily routine, 28 NEC staff volunteers brought 18 of them for an outing to Singapore Botanic Gardens on 10 September 2004. They were embraced by the vast greenery of Singapore Botanic Gardens. At the same time, NEC staff volunteers built strong bonds with the children through interactive game sessions. The children showed off their talents by performing a Circus Arts Show.

Group photo taken at the fountain in Ginger Garden before we talk a stroll around SBG		An entertaining Circus Arts Show performed by the residents for the volunteers.

Residents and volunteers feeding the swans, duck, fish and tortoises.		Swan feeding time on land. Even the pigeons also join in to have a bite.