1. Name of the School: Crescent Girls’ School
Address : 357 Tanglin Road, Singapore 247961
School Leader: Zoe Fan
Tel.: 92370600 Email: 080286@live.crescent.edu.sg
Story Title: Project Help Me Go Home
Mentor Teacher: Namita Sarbahi
STUDENT INFORMATION
1) Name: Ada Ong
Age: 15 Grade: Secondary 3
2) Name: Geraldine Wong
Age: 15 Grade: Secondary 3
3) Name: Jacqueline Gwee
Age: 15 Grade: Secondary 3
4) Name:

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During a visit to the hospital, we were shown a
touching video about the ventilator assisted
patients(VAIs) in Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
VAIs patients depend on life support machines in
order to survive. They are unable to go home and
spend their final days in the hospital, a boring place.
They would much rather go home if they could afford
home care equipment, costing $16,000 each.
-We felt sympathy towards them and since we are fit
and able, we sincerely hope that we would be able to
help them as well as contribute to the society.
We thought of having street sales of four
colours of hand-made straw heart pins to
raise funds. This is meaningful as we can
involve many people in folding the heart
pins, and those who buy them will know
about the cause too. We also held a charity
car wash in our own school.
We applied under the Citi-YMCA Youth for
Causes program, for a seed funding of
$1,600 to carry out the above ideas and
other activities outside the week.
To make our product, we had a straw heart pin making session with 150 schoolmates helping us. On 8
August 2010, we organized a street sale at Chua Chu Kang with a total of 89 volunteers from many
other different schools. If each volunteer approached 100 people on the street (a very realistic
estimate), there would be a total outreach of at least 8900 people!
After the street sales, we held an in-school car wash. We gathered 50 volunteers from our CCA (co-
curricular activities) and our classmates to help out. We standardized the procedures for every car
wash. About 30 cars were washed, and many parents and teachers made an effort to donate to our
cause. Everyone who got their car washed were quite happy with the results.
In the end, we raised SGD$4,643.40 in the week! In the next few weeks, we had other fundraising
activites and was eventually able to buy one ventilator for the patients!
9th
to 15th
August 2010