Despite the drizzle on 2 October, 300 members of SSA Regional Headquarters 6 (RHQ6) participated in the Mental Wellness Carnival held at the open field next to the Paya Lebar MRT station. This event was organised by Silver Ribbon (Singapore) to commemorate World Mental Health Day. The main activities of the event served to promote awareness of mental wellness and...
Responding to the request for exercise classes for senior citizens, six members of the Soka Volunteers Group took lessons at the Health Promotion Board to qualify as exercise trainers. With the new skills, these volunteers started an exercise class with 28 senior participants....
27 May 2011 was a memorable day for some 20 senior citizens and 10 members of the Soka Volunteers Group (SVG) coming together for the last time, after more than three months of weekly handicraft sessions. (See earlier report published in SSA Times issue 414, page 5) This last gathering saw the volunteers happily engaged themselves in the singing of...
While many of us shun the squeeze and messiness of Chinatown during the Chinese New Year season, 25 volunteers from the Soka Volunteers Group (SVG) took time off work and their busy schedule to accompany 20 beneficiaries from the Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) to Chinatown to soak up the spirit of the Chinese New Year on the 20th...
For the fourth year running, SSA partnered Esplanade—Theatres on the Bay and the Urban Redevelopment Authority for the annual Marina Bay Singapore Countdown Wishing Sphere Project. A total of more than 100 Soka Volunteers Group (SVG) members took part in this project through a series of activities in December to reach out to members of the public, Volunteer Welfare Organisations...
