8 June 2008
At 8am, my Aunt, Mother and I reported to the Volunteers registration booth at Metta School [32 Simei Street 1]. The Volunteer Executive, Eilynn, handed us our Tshirt and directed us to our booth.
The Metta Charity Walk cum Family Carnival is an annual event organised to raise funds for the Metta Welfare Association. The Carnival sees booths set up by various business owners and volunteers who donates all proceeds generated to charity. I had attended and volunteered for the previous year. This year, I brought along my family and had fun doing our part for charity.
Since we were early, we browsed the Happy Arts Deli cafe for breakfast. The cafe features vegetarian delicacies.
When the boxes arrived for our booth, we began unpacking the Lavender products from the Gift Cottage. I watched along as Mother and Aunt discussed over what was the best layout for the booth. A great opportunity for the two adults to immerse themselves with hands-on training for entrepreneurship.
The Guest-of-Honour for the event was Ms Jessica Tan Soon Neo (MP for East Coast GRC). After flagging off the Charity Walk, she went from booth to booth to interact with the volunteers as well as the business owners. Through a short conversation, I thought she was a very warm and friendly person.
Initially, we were quite worried since our booth drew little crowd and very few were really interested in such high-end products. I penned down some sales pitch and pasted around the more unique products. Gradually, sales began to pour in. We are proud of ourselves for pulling in more than $1,000 by the end of the day.
After the carnival, I rushed off to Dragon Boat training in preparation for the coming competition that is going to take place at Bedok Reservoir.
Finally, had a dinner with Bao Hui and her family at the Pu Tien Restaurant. Fabulous food.
At 8am, my Aunt, Mother and I reported to the Volunteers registration booth at Metta School [32 Simei Street 1]. The Volunteer Executive, Eilynn, handed us our Tshirt and directed us to our booth.
The Metta Charity Walk cum Family Carnival is an annual event organised to raise funds for the Metta Welfare Association. The Carnival sees booths set up by various business owners and volunteers who donates all proceeds generated to charity. I had attended and volunteered for the previous year. This year, I brought along my family and had fun doing our part for charity.
Since we were early, we browsed the Happy Arts Deli cafe for breakfast. The cafe features vegetarian delicacies.
When the boxes arrived for our booth, we began unpacking the Lavender products from the Gift Cottage. I watched along as Mother and Aunt discussed over what was the best layout for the booth. A great opportunity for the two adults to immerse themselves with hands-on training for entrepreneurship.
The Guest-of-Honour for the event was Ms Jessica Tan Soon Neo (MP for East Coast GRC). After flagging off the Charity Walk, she went from booth to booth to interact with the volunteers as well as the business owners. Through a short conversation, I thought she was a very warm and friendly person.
Initially, we were quite worried since our booth drew little crowd and very few were really interested in such high-end products. I penned down some sales pitch and pasted around the more unique products. Gradually, sales began to pour in. We are proud of ourselves for pulling in more than $1,000 by the end of the day.
After the carnival, I rushed off to Dragon Boat training in preparation for the coming competition that is going to take place at Bedok Reservoir.Finally, had a dinner with Bao Hui and her family at the Pu Tien Restaurant. Fabulous food.
Hey, I was there at Booth 14! Glad to see you blogging about the event... so next year, more people will come. :)
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