Birthday Celebration

01 July 2009

A surprise birthday celebration for our new Programme Coordinator at Dreams, June Tiong. Youths member and staff gather together to sing birthday song and enjoy the delicious birthday cake. Late presents for the birthday girl are welcome anytime.

Independence Day celebration

04 July 2009

Youth members and their parents, together with Dreams staff Aunty Patricia and overseas volunteer Joanna Klak, attended the Independence Day celebration at PSA Sembawang Wharfes. This event celebrates the U.S. Independence Day in Singapore. Dreams @ Kolam Ayer would like to thank Cargill Asia Pacific Holdings Pte Limited for inviting us to join them in this celebration.

Tree-top Walk

25 July 2009 (2.30pm - 5.30pm)

Our youths had an enjoyable time on a Saturday afternoon for a walk close to the nature. Other than the well-known tree-top walk, they also visited the tomb of Mr Lim Bo Seng. The walk took 3 hours. Although exhausted, they agreed that it was an eye-opening and fun walk. Most of them were there for the first time.

HomeCreation 2009

26 September 2009

This year marked the fourth year of HomeCreation, which saw more than 400 residents of Kolam Ayer Constituency benefited from the project. About 40 units in Geylang Bahru, block 61 and 62 were refurbished (paint and/or clean). The entire project from planning to execution involved 200 students from Raffles institution. The day ended with a 8-course dinner at Kolam Ayer CC as well as performances from RI and youths from Dreams. We would like to thank everybody who has made this project a success. We will be back for HomeCreation 2010!

Children For Children @ The Singapore ZOO

30 September 2009

Happy children’s day to all our youths!

Our youths celebrated Children’s Day in the Singapore Zoo. Children For Children@ The Singapore Zoo is specially curate to provide a once in a lifetime Children’s Day experience where our youths were involved in a multitude of creative and arts activities that aim to bring greater awareness of Nature and the wonders of the animal kingdom. Needless to say, our youths had a fun and educational day. Special thanks to The Business Times Budding Artists Fund for sponsoring this event.

CAMP SOLA 2009 (Combat Jeering, Cheer)

4-5 December 2009

CAMP SOLA is an annual camp event organized for youths from Dreams. This year, with the help of NIE student teachers, we aimed to motivate and improve self-esteem of these youths. The camp was carefully planned and executed by NIE student teachers and our youths had a fantastic time. They went home, not only with the their bags full of goodies, but also many memorable memories and valuable lessons. Thank you teachers for all your effort and sacrifices! In addition, we would also like to thank all our volunteers and CDL for co-sponsoring part of the cost incurred for the camp.

Xmas day Celebration with KPMG

23rd December 2009

Our youths had an early Christmas celebration with volunteers from KPMG. The event, which lasted 3 hours, was filled with games, food and lots of activities. Every youth received a goodie bag at the end of the day, packed by KPMG volunteers. We would like to thank all of them for their sacrifices and for the joy they brought to our youths.

Cinema @ Dreams

29th Jan 2010

January will be the start of Dreams monthly Cinema where youths are brought together to watch a movie and to do a overall reflection at the end of the show. For January, our youths were shown a thai show called “My girl” which shows the strong bond and friendship between two children. Youths were given drinks and ice cream to be consume during the show. The youths enjoyed themselves and are already looking forward to the next session!

Back-to-school packs for our youths!

Jan 2010

35 youths from Dreams@Kolam Ayer were fortunate enough to receive a back-to-school pack which consisted of shoes, socks and bags, kindly sponsored by KPMG. This back-to-school packs will prepare the youths to receive a new academic year. The youths and parents were grateful for KPMG’s generosity.

City Square Mall’s March Holiday Performance

16th March 2010

20 youths from Dreams@Kolam Ayer were invited to a magical performance titled “World of Toys” at City Square Mall main atrium. The youths entered a journey of magic, illusion and fun. Dinner were provided for them and they enjoyed themselves. We would like to thank CSR and City Sunshine Club for inviting our youths from Dreams @ Kolam Ayer to their event and for sponsoring bus and food.

Sharing & Caring Get-together

20th March 2010

Sharing & Caring is a food ration programme for the low-income families staying around Dreams@Kolam Ayer. 50 families were invited to this lunch event. The families mingled around themselves while enjoying the delicious food prepared by one of our beneficiary. In addition, the performances put up by Damai Secondary School kept them entertained throughout the meals.