Saturday morning was tiring but definitely fun. We began the delivery of general wishes with the official car flag off.
This year, for the first time, we had a Guest-of-Honour for the event: Nominated Member of Parliament and one of BBSGB Ambassador, Ms Eunice Olsen. She flagged off a convoy of 28 Rav4 cars that were led out of ACS Barker Road Car Park in style by four Harley Davidson motorbikes, which captured the fiery spirit of the project in the resounding roar of their engines.
After the flag off, Eunice got into one of the Rav4 cars to make deliveries with the convoy. The Rav4 convoy also voluntarily acted as the mode of transport for 15 youths from Beyond Social Services to do delivery of food hampers to the beneficiaries. This is the first time a voluntary welfare organisation is taking an active participation in the delivery. These youths are also recipients of BBSGB but did their part to give the Christmas cheer to others as much as they receive.
The rationale of organising a car delivery flag off is to encourage and allow members of the public to experience the joy of sharing and giving through personal involvement. Food items that are collected and packed into bags are loaded into the vehicles and these are delivered to the beneficiaries. This is the third time we are running the event and response was overwhelming.
Most regrettably, we had to reject many who volunteered. This is not because we have too many drivers. Rather, we have too little food bags to give away.
The project aims to benefit more than 18,000 beneficiaries with these food bags, which can typically provide them with an estimate 6 months of supplies. Sadly, the project currently has only collected about 40% of what is needed to fill these bags for the 18.000 beneficiaries. We are 4 days away from closing the project, and can only pray very hard that Singaporeans would come forward with donations with enough to fill the remaining empty bags.
The project ask for not your cash but our low count products (cooking oil, hallal can food, cereals). You can buy from anywhere...FairPrice, Cold Storage, Seng Shiong etc. Drop them off our giftbox outside Takashimaya, our giftboxes at 13 FairPrice outlets or at the BB HQ off Zion Road (Opposite great world city).
For more information, you can go to www.bbsgb.org.sg
Sincerely, we plead for your support to allow us to continue to delivery cheer to our beneficiaries.
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