10 Christmas trees decorated with origami made from recycled *SCAPE flyers will be sold to raise funds for the *SCAPE Youth Fund and The Spastic Children’s Association of Singapore. The proceeds from this event will go to *SCAPE Youth Fund and SCAS.
On 17 December 2010, 10 Christmas trees at *SCAPE were decorated with much 'heart' work for a noteworthy cause, and together they hold a truly special meaning in this Yuletide season. In collaboration with Nanyang Polytechnic and the The Spastic Children’s Association of Singapore (SCAS), these Christmas trees were dressed up with handmade origami recycled from *SCAPE flyers, by Nanyang Polytechnic students and Perfect Rivals/FLY Entertainment artistes Irene Ang, Pamelyn Chee, Adele Wong and Alaric Tay.
Taking creative direction from the SCAS beneficiaries, students from Nanyang Polytechnic’s Sakuran Japanese Club had created the origami decorations for this charity event. Celebrities from FLY Entertainment also helped to do up the trees alongside the students to do their part for this significant event.
Youth empowerment is a large part of *SCAPE’s mission and vision of youth and leadership development, and this event, initiated by the *SCAPE and the students, gave our young Singaporeans a chance to participate in a worthwhile cause to help raise awareness on Cerebral Palsy. More youth initiatives of various nature can also be facilitated by *SCAPE with the money raised for the *SCAPE Youth Fund.
“Christmas is a time of giving, and *SCAPE wants to provide a platform for youth to have the opportunity to contribute to a good cause,” said Evelyn Lau, General Manager of *SCAPE Co. Ltd. “We are very impressed by the passion of the Nanyang Polytechnic students, who contributed ideas, time and effort, and *SCAPE is more than happy to support them in this worthy cause.”
Youths can also be a part of the charitable cause by writing their well wishes to the SCAS beneficiaries via the *SCAPE Facebook page from 17 December 2010 onwards. These well-wishes will then be hung on the Christmas trees for display at *SCAPE before they are finally sold to the winning bidder.
In this way, some of the youths who might not have the means to bid for a tree can also participate in the meaningful cause as *SCAPE hopes to engage all young people by providing them with opportunities to contribute in events for social causes.
SCAS is the custodian of the needy children with Cerebral Palsy, who require special education, early intervention and rehabilitation services. Donations will be channelled towards their Early Intervention Programme for Infants and Children (EIPIC), to defray the cost of programme fees, transport, diapers, wheelchairs, vitamin supplements, food rations, purchase of educational materials and therapy equipment. This will greatly help the families of the children, which face financial hardship and have difficulty providing for the special needs of their disabled children
These decorated trees will be on display at *SCAPE and thereafter sold at $800. 50% of the proceeds will be to SCAS and 50% will go to the *SCAPE Youth Fund which will allow *SCAPE to continue its youth project and venue sponsorships.
Venue: *SCAPE Level 3, 2 Orchard Link, #02-02, Singapore 237978
This event is also part of *SCAPE’s launch of its unique Social Retail Colony this yearend, alongside Project Dance Edge and Red Cross Humanitarian-SMU Chapter’s public blood donation drive.