On the morning of 23rd September 2006, 10 rotaractors from different Rotaract clubs in Singapore, including 4 from RAC Singapore West, volunteered their serviced to Alexandra Hospital for AMD Awareness Week.
What is AMD? it stands for Age-related Macular Degeneration. AMD is the leading cause of blindness in our world today and is related to increasing age. Alexandra Hospital had been holding seminars, workshops and eye screening exercises on AMD since 17th September.
We - President Yiling, Secretary Dawn, Rotaractor Wahid, and I - made ourselves available on that faithful Saturday to help out at the AMD eye screening exercise. We saw about 200 elderly coming for the eye screening. It was an orderly morning as we have volunteers situated at every station to assist the crowd. Wahid was required to receive the crowd from the registration counter and made sure they gotten their turn to screen their eyes. Yiling, Dawn and I, were each staying in the doctors' room to translate whatever our eye doctors were saying to the elderly.
We really had a good time finding out Mandarin terms for AMD, cataract, and even glaucoma! And all those Mandarin words for eye drops, dilation...you name them! And not only in Mandarin but different chinese dialects at times. I could hear Wahid going "zhou zhou" (sit sit), "deng deng" (wait wait) too... hahaha.
We were kept so busy with the crowd that the morning ended fast. We were also very happy that each of the elderly got their chance to screen their eyes and consulted about how their vision were doing. With satisfaction, we brisk to Burger King at Ikea Shopping Mall to have our lunch.
Report submitted by VP Eileen Tiang
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Sunday, September 17, 2006
RAC Ampang Installation
We were thrilled to make the trip up to KL, Malaysia to attend our sister club's Installation on 16 September 2006, and also to make it a fun weekend trip! The verdict - we had plenty of fun and fellowship, but it definitely was NOT a trip for R&R!
Below is report by IS Director Ke Yuan.
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Report RAC Ampang Installation 2006
When: From 15 sept to 17 sept
Objective: To attend Rotarct Club of Ampang installation, to build and maintain bonds between the two sisters club.
Number of pax attended: 10 Rtrs, 1 Graduate Rtrs, 1 Guest and 2 Rtr Family members
RAC SW
1. Zack
2. Yi Ling
3. Dawn
4. Jun Jie
5. Eileen
6. Keyuan
7. Simon
8. Jimmy (Graduated)
RAC NAFA
1. Celine
2. Paul
Guest
1. Siew Leng
2. Dawn’s Parents
Summary of the trip:
Day 1
• Breakfast with RAC Ampang Rtrs (IPP Mun Wai, Caryn and Andrew)
• Visit of KL Twin Tower and Shopping at KLCC
• Split into 2 groups
o “A” lunch at the famous Ampang Yong Tou Hu, check in apartment and R&R around the area.
o “B” went for Hair Cut and Shopping.
• RAC Ampang Installation at Ampang Jaya
• Fellowship at apartment.
• Home sweet home
Day 2
• Breakfast with Rac Ampang Rtrs (IPP Mun Wai, Caryn, Andrew and Joanne)
• Return to Singapore
The trip to KL was both fun and enjoyable; the Rtrs from both clubs had a lot of fellowship and interaction. But however the schedule was very packed, thus not much time to do shopping or explore KL.
The installation was filled with unique and fun activities. The in-coming Prez Alex is not present at the Installation due to work commitment. The “short speech” by IPP Mun Wai. Thegames by game master Andrew. The presence of 3 DRR from RI 3300 Chandra, 3310 Zack and 3460 Ruby. And lastly the over whelming turn out by RAC SW Rotaractors.
In short the trip was fun and will look forward for future interactions with RAC Ampang Rtr.
Submitted by IS Director Kwek Ke Yuan
More photos from this trip HERE