SUN SINGAPORE: WHERE RECREATION IS ABOUT GIVING BACK
I recently connected with Chang Huong Tan from Sun's Global Sales Group in Singapore. Chang has been doing an amazing job organizing Sun Singapore's volunteer activities with The Gentle Fund Organization (GFO).
GFO was started by a group of young Vietnamese professionals living in Singapore who wanted to help provide shelter, educational opportunities and medical assistance to orphaned and under-served children in Vietnam. Chang and his group of volunteers (who go by the name Singapore Recreation Club) have served as regular volunteers to provide emotional, informational and social support to Vietnamese children and their families who come to Singapore to receive medical treatment.
For the month of April they are planning two major volunteer events. The first will be a GFO patient visit during which the group will spend time providing moral support to children from Vietnam who are being treated for cancer at National University Hospital in Singapore. During WWVW, their group will hold a massive fundraising event during which they aim to raise funds to go to operations of a GFO learning center to be constructed in Hue, Vietnam. Members of their group hope to present the donation to GFO in person during a May site visit.
By calling themselves the Singapore Recreation Club, Chang and his group truly embody the notion that giving back is fun!
