Home Sweet Home
Sunday, March 09th 2025
9.30am - 1pm (GMT+08:00) / 3 hours 30 minutes
9.30am - 1pm (GMT+08:00) / 3 hours 30 minutes
(1) ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
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We love the idea of distributing goodie packs to less privileged families and elderly to tide through a month or so. But we @ The Volunteer Switchboard have decided to take this up a notch. So read on!
We believe in the notion that “everyone should make an effort to give back to society in whatever way possible, however small.” So to achieve that, we are partnering with the younger families for the packing and distribution of food to the elderly in their own neighbourhood! This will happen after we spend the morning interacting with the younger families at Jalan Kukoh. And by doing so, we hope that these families can get to know their elderly neighbours a little better from interactive activities including a goodie distribution exercise, and forge stronger bonds between them.
(2) PRE EVENT MATTERS
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Please check your email for before the event (including your spam folder).
(i) A pre-event briefing information deck will be sent to your email.
(ii) Your groupings and reporting time will be confirmed on the Saturday before the event.
(3) YOUR ROLE AS A VOLUNTEER
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- Read the pre-event information deck (will be sent to you via email before the event)
- Be punctual so that all of us can start on time
- Engage and interact with the residents.
- Assist resident volunteers in packing and distribution of supplies.
- Introduce items to senior recipient families.
- Check with recipient families on supplies from the previous months.
- Be the eyes and ears for the community.
- Assist in activities (if any) planned for the residents.
- Most importantly: Do not be shy & HAVE FUN! Chat with the seniors!
(4) EVENT FORMAT
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9:30 AM to 9:45 PM
Volunteer Registration and take attendance
9:45 AM to 12:30 PM
- Briefing for volunteers on what to expect and instructions
- Packing of goodies and sending to designated points in the same neighbourhood
- Heading out to distribute goodies and chat with the seniors (topics of the month)
- Assist in activities (if any) planned for the residents
- Take down visiting notes
12:30 PM to 12:45 PM
- Debrief and wrap up
(5) REPORTING TIME AND PLACE
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All Volunteers to report at 9:30 AM. Look out for the registration sign.
The reporting place will be on Level 4. Block 10 Jln Kukoh.
(6) Changes on COVID-19 Related Protocol (Version 1 May 2022)
==============================================================================
With the recent easing of the national guidelines for the COVID-19 situation, there are a couple of changes made for our Home Sweet Home event. These changes are according to the advisory from Ministry of Health’s (MOH) and Ministry of Social and Family Development’s (MSF).
See this document:
https://tinyurl.com/HSH-C19-Changes
(7) REGISTRATION (ELIGIBILTY TO PARTICIPATE, POLICY & DETAILS)
==============================================================================
- Events and registration are subject to changes or cancellation at any time prior to event.
- Should there be any changes about the event, registered and waitlist volunteers will be notified via email.
- By registering for this event you agree, you are confirming that you agree to the safety measures in place and would be eligible to participate.
- Please update your registration if there are changes to your attendance. So you can help waitlisted volunteers to fill your place to reach out to the seniors that were originally assigned to yourself.
- Each volunteer registration allows a maximum of 5 people. We would highly encourage each individual to register for their account as the system would send an automated reminder to the registered email. If you are coming in a group bigger than 5, please have another friend to register. This will help to update the volunteer count and the community know which event needs more volunteers.
- Number of pax: Please indicate the number of volunteers (including yourself) that you are registering on behalf of. This includes children.
- Volunteer names: Please indicate the names of all the volunteers in the comment section
- Children (below age of 14 years old) as volunteers:
Children to be accompanied by their parents/legal guardian all times. By participating together with your child/ward, parent/legal guardians, you provide consent listed in the Parental consent form (https://tinyurl.com/HSH-Consent). This includes you agree to have understood the potential risks and exposure of your child/ward’s participation in this event and will be responsible for helping your child/ward understand their roles and responsibilities during the volunteering event. Hence, no parental consent form would be required.
Children not accompanied would require to submit a parental consent form. Please download via this link (https://tinyurl.com/HSH-Consent) and submit to us BEFORE the event.
===========================================
We love the idea of distributing goodie packs to less privileged families and elderly to tide through a month or so. But we @ The Volunteer Switchboard have decided to take this up a notch. So read on!
We believe in the notion that “everyone should make an effort to give back to society in whatever way possible, however small.” So to achieve that, we are partnering with the younger families for the packing and distribution of food to the elderly in their own neighbourhood! This will happen after we spend the morning interacting with the younger families at Jalan Kukoh. And by doing so, we hope that these families can get to know their elderly neighbours a little better from interactive activities including a goodie distribution exercise, and forge stronger bonds between them.
(2) PRE EVENT MATTERS
===========================================
Please check your email for before the event (including your spam folder).
(i) A pre-event briefing information deck will be sent to your email.
(ii) Your groupings and reporting time will be confirmed on the Saturday before the event.
(3) YOUR ROLE AS A VOLUNTEER
===========================================
- Read the pre-event information deck (will be sent to you via email before the event)
- Be punctual so that all of us can start on time
- Engage and interact with the residents.
- Assist resident volunteers in packing and distribution of supplies.
- Introduce items to senior recipient families.
- Check with recipient families on supplies from the previous months.
- Be the eyes and ears for the community.
- Assist in activities (if any) planned for the residents.
- Most importantly: Do not be shy & HAVE FUN! Chat with the seniors!
(4) EVENT FORMAT
===========================================
9:30 AM to 9:45 PM
Volunteer Registration and take attendance
9:45 AM to 12:30 PM
- Briefing for volunteers on what to expect and instructions
- Packing of goodies and sending to designated points in the same neighbourhood
- Heading out to distribute goodies and chat with the seniors (topics of the month)
- Assist in activities (if any) planned for the residents
- Take down visiting notes
12:30 PM to 12:45 PM
- Debrief and wrap up
(5) REPORTING TIME AND PLACE
===========================================
All Volunteers to report at 9:30 AM. Look out for the registration sign.
The reporting place will be on Level 4. Block 10 Jln Kukoh.
(6) Changes on COVID-19 Related Protocol (Version 1 May 2022)
==============================================================================
With the recent easing of the national guidelines for the COVID-19 situation, there are a couple of changes made for our Home Sweet Home event. These changes are according to the advisory from Ministry of Health’s (MOH) and Ministry of Social and Family Development’s (MSF).
See this document:
https://tinyurl.com/HSH-C19-Changes
(7) REGISTRATION (ELIGIBILTY TO PARTICIPATE, POLICY & DETAILS)
==============================================================================
- Events and registration are subject to changes or cancellation at any time prior to event.
- Should there be any changes about the event, registered and waitlist volunteers will be notified via email.
- By registering for this event you agree, you are confirming that you agree to the safety measures in place and would be eligible to participate.
- Please update your registration if there are changes to your attendance. So you can help waitlisted volunteers to fill your place to reach out to the seniors that were originally assigned to yourself.
- Each volunteer registration allows a maximum of 5 people. We would highly encourage each individual to register for their account as the system would send an automated reminder to the registered email. If you are coming in a group bigger than 5, please have another friend to register. This will help to update the volunteer count and the community know which event needs more volunteers.
- Number of pax: Please indicate the number of volunteers (including yourself) that you are registering on behalf of. This includes children.
- Volunteer names: Please indicate the names of all the volunteers in the comment section
- Children (below age of 14 years old) as volunteers:
Children to be accompanied by their parents/legal guardian all times. By participating together with your child/ward, parent/legal guardians, you provide consent listed in the Parental consent form (https://tinyurl.com/HSH-Consent). This includes you agree to have understood the potential risks and exposure of your child/ward’s participation in this event and will be responsible for helping your child/ward understand their roles and responsibilities during the volunteering event. Hence, no parental consent form would be required.
Children not accompanied would require to submit a parental consent form. Please download via this link (https://tinyurl.com/HSH-Consent) and submit to us BEFORE the event.