It was a very enjoyable Sunday for my gals (and their partners) as we woke up early to prepare for our mini donation drive... As promised I will update you girls on this meaningful event and hopefully can encourage 1 or 2 of you girls to do something similar too!
Well, for this year's Lee Ah Mooi donation drive, my girl friends and myself donated money to buy goodies for the elderly in the home. I did a call prior to the grocery shopping and Mark, the director of the home (also the son of Lee Ah Mooi) specifically told us not to buy rice. He would like to have more on condiments and dry goods like black fungus and mushrooms. Of course we will arrange the items for him as he knows exactly what was lacking in the Lee Ah Mooi home!
With the information given, my frenmily (we call each other frenmily) and I met up at Pasir Panjang Wholesale Center and started our purchases! I must say it was fun! We thought of the possible dishes that can be used with the dry goods we were getting and each item was chosen carefully, knowing that the elderly may not be able to eat certain types of food or worry about their digestion. The shop owner was nice and gave us additional tips on what food should buy more and which should cut down a little... WOW, you will never expect that giving food donations can actually be this confusing eh?
(as we order, the trolley starts to pile up... SO exciting!)
(Carefully packed by the shop owner and it was amazing how 2 car boots could fit so much!)
While we were there, Mark gave us a mini tour of the home. He told us some stories about the patients and improvements they have made since they came to the home. It was good to hear that Mark has taken care of them well and that they are happy staying there.
Before we left, Mark thanked us for the generosity showered upon these elderly. Honestly, the dry goods we bought could only last them a few days. But every little counts and helps. We were glad that in some ways, we helped the home. :) One of my frenmily member suggested doing this meaningful charity drive again sometime in April but this time to an orphange. Mr Ling and I got excited and agreed immediately to the next 'charity adventure!'
Mr Ling and the rest of the KAYLENE team would like to take this opportunity to thank all customers who contributed to this charity drive as we have used portions of the sales money in November and December'13. Thank you for supporting KAYLENE, thank you for supporting this meaningful charity drive!
(look at the amount of dry goods we bought! Photos did not do justice to the purchases!)
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