17 May 2003
Candice Yong, 13 years old, sacrificed a notebook, key chain, a fish and chips meal and a glass of bubble tea this week, all because she wanted to use the money saved to donate to The Courage Fund.
Candice is one of the many students of Cedar Girls’ Secondary School who have made personal sacrifices for the Fund. Every year, the school raises money during the kindness week in aid of charitable organisations under the Community Chest. This year, the money they raise from 12 to 16 May will go to The Courage Fund.
“I am very happy that the students respond so positively. This year, we are donating towards The Courage Fund because it is the most urgent cause,” said Miss Susan Leong, Principal.
Exams have just started today for the students of Cedar Girls’ Secondary School and will end on 2 June.
Youths from the NPCC uniform group of New Town Secondary School also gave $547.30. Other donations came from Bukit Panjang Government High School Advisory Committee, Peicai Secondary School and Yuying Secondary School Alumni with amounts $3,000, $1,200 and $2,000 respectively.
During the school closure in April, students of Bukit Panjang Government High School handmade 800 colourful friendship bands. When the school reopened, they sold the bands to raise money for the Fund. Their contributions bring today’s public donations to $23,691.30.
Strong support came from various religious groups today. Puat Jit Buddhist Temple contributed $20,000, Singapore Buddhist Federation Foundation and Zu-Lin Temple Association gave $10,000 each, Nan Hai Fei Lai Temple gave $7,831, Lian Chee Kek Buddhist Temple gave $6,097 while Man Fut Tong Welfare Friendly Society and Church of St Alphonsus Redemption Community (Novena Church) donated $5,000 each. Fairfield Methodist Church also gave $1,000. These contributed to the total of $75,528 from corporate donations today.
The daily breakdown is as follows:
Corporate Donations $5,356,936.32
New donations today $75,528.00
Total to date $5,432,464.32
Public Donations $3,250,179.14
New donations today $23,691.30
Total to date $3,273,870.44
The Fund to date stands at $8,706,334.76. This sum does not include the government’s $1M contribution and dollar-for-dollar match.
How to make a donation to The Courage Fund?
(A) Organisations
Organisations interested to raise funds towards The Courage Fund are welcome to write in with their promotion concept with details such as type of product, % of sales revenue to be pledged and wordings to be used in the advertising and/or promotional materials. Please write in to:
The Courage Fund
c/o National Healthcare Group
6 Commonwealth Lane
Level 6 GMTI Building
Singapore 149547
Alternatively, email us at couragefund@nhg.com.sg or call us at 6471 5933.
(B) By Cheque
A crossed cheque made payable to “The Courage Fund” should be sent to The Courage Fund, c/o National Healthcare Group, 6 Commonwealth Lane, Level 6 GMTI Building, Singapore 149547.
For the purpose of issuing receipts, donors are encouraged to include their full name, address and contact number on the reverse sides of cheques. Donors should not send any cash by mail. Cash donations can be made in person at National Healthcare Group office.
(C) By Phone
Members of the public can donate to the fund by calling 1900-112-1333. This service is provided by Singtel.
(D) By Internet Banking
DBS and POSB customers can donate to The Courage Fund via DBS Internet Banking and DBS Internet Kiosks. DBS Internet Banking is available at www.dbs.com/ebanking/internet/login and DBS Internet Kiosks are located island wide.
(E) By AXS Stations
Make a donation by simply touching on THE COURAGE FUND button on the right panel of the screen of any AXS station. Call 6560 2727 or visit www.axs.com.sg for locations
(F) Community Chest Donation Boxes
The 777 donation boxes are available at:
- Public hospitals and polyclinics
- Thomson Medical Centre
- Twin City Medical Group (at Takashimaya)
- Sin Chong Medical Hall (at Pearl Centre and People’s Park Centre)
- East Shore Hospital
- American Club
- Changi Airport Terminal 1 & 2
- Chinatown Hawker Alley
- Cold Storage Supermarket outlets
- Giant Hypermarket outlets
- Photo Finish outlets
- Guardian Pharmacy outlets
- 7-eleven outlets
- McDonald’s, Burger King and Starbucks outlets
- Nanyang Polytechnic (Nursing Dept), National University of Singapore (Medicine Faculty), Raffles Junior College
- NTUC Fairprice Outlets (Ang Mo Kio, Bedok North, Bedok Reservoir, Bishan, Bt Ho Swee, Bt Timah Plaza, Choa Chu Kang, Choa Chu Kang Lot 1, Clementi, East Point, Geylang East, Hougang Mall, Hougang Point, Hougang St 21, Kallang Bahru, Marine Parade Central, Marsiling, Queenstown, Rochor, Serangoon, Shaw Plaza, Simei, Singapore Post Centre @ Eunos, Sun Plaza, Tampines Mall, Thomson Plaza, White Sands, Woodlands and Yew Tee)
- NTUC Trade Union House
- Paragon Shopping Centre
- People’s Association HQ (Kallang)
- Singapore Conference Hall
- Singapore Institute of Management
- Singapore Management University
- Singapore Mint
- Stadiums on nights when there are S-League matches
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