Metta Charity Walk cum Family Carnival 2011

Metta Charity Walk cum Family Carnival 2011
慈光义走与嘉年华会

Sunday, 20 March 2011
9am – 5pm

Metta Building
32 Simei Street 1 Singapore(529950)

Free Shuttle-Bus Service between Simei MRT and Metta Welfare Association, 8am to 5.30pm.

For more info, pls refer to Metta Website.

This annual carnival serves a two-prong purpose: 1) It is a day for the beneficiaries, students, volunteers and supporters to come together to celebrate the great service that Metta Welfare has been providing to the people in Singapore, inclusive of all, regardless of race, language or religion. 2) It is to raise awareness of its services it is running and to raise fund for its operations.

Playing a pivotal role in realising its mission are nine welfare centres and a social enterprise that are located islandwide. Currently serving over 900 beneficiaries from various races and religions, these centres are segregated into the following areas:

Disability Care
Metta Day Activity Centre for the Intellectually Disabled (a day care centre for the intellectually disabled)
Metta Home for the Disabled (a residential home for the disabled)
Metta Home Day Activity Centre (a day care centre for the disabled)

Medical Care
Metta Day Rehabilitation Centre for the Elderly (a day rehabilitation centre for elderly and stroke patients)
Metta Hospice Care (home hospice care for the terminally ill)

Children Care
Metta PreSchool @Simei and Punggol (preschools that offer early intervention programmes to young children aged three to six with special needs)
SE CDC – Metta Student Care Centre

Special Education
Metta School (a special education school for children aged seven to 18 with mild intellectual disability and/or autism spectrum disorders)

Social Enterprise
Happy Arts Enterprise Ltd (a social enterprise that creates vocational training and employment opportunities for adolescents aged 18 and above from special education schools)

Above info extracted from http://buddhavacana.net/ to share more about Metta.

I'll be there as a volunteer to man one of the scrapbook stalls and we will be selling the American Crafts Scrapbook Kits at real good price. Pls come to support! Even if you are not into scrapbooking, there are many other stalls which display beautiful art works / craft works by the students of Metta and these are meant for sale. Not only that, there's many food stalls as well! There will sure be something that you and your family will be interested!