They are heavy. Some mothers took the opportunity to give their kids an early lesson in charity. They gave them coins and asked them to drop into the tins, much to Patrick's delight. Several teams of volunteers collected donations from the staff and students in the campus charity drive. Veteran's Touch The leader of the Twelve Disciples volunteers group, Fatimah Pereira, was on hand to wheel a disabled around the Ngee Ann Poly campus canteen to get donations.
Age is only a number.
Caterers chip in Some caterers chipped in with donations in kind. Like the Chinese Foodstall at Ngee Ann, Goh Lay Choo, who gave complimentary lunches. The Soft-Sell Motherly love might not have tipped the scale in the friendly competition for top donations but it did make a difference to Benjamin Chia Kiat Meng, The presence of Madam Chan Gek Lee, a housewife, rallied more students to dip into their pockets. The Hard Sell Lim Ching Ru believed in talking to touch the hearts of the students. Not one to stand idly by, she approached those at the lunch tables and told her story.